Abstract
Abstract This article examines curatorial strategies used to contextualize, dramatize and narrativize events that unfold over timescales far exceeding that of the individual human lifespan, sometimes involving life forms that are posthuman or other-than-human. Three exhibition projects from 2015 will be analysed – A Breathcrystal curated by Mihnea Mircan, Riddle of the Burial Grounds curated by Tessa Giblin, and Disappearing Acts curated by Matt Packer and Arne Skaug Olsen – each of which explores situations of actual or potential disaster resulting from exposure to nonhuman organisms, nuclear waste or rising seas caused by climate change. Informed by T. J. Demos and Fredric Jameson’s theorizations of ‘negative utopianism’ in art theory and science fiction, I explore how these curatorial scenarios investigate the properties of human and nonhuman entities, whether encountered in the present or from vantage points of the distant past or future.
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