About

The Microcosmos is a series of small-scale, interdisciplinary experiments in living and nonliving during a time of profound change. This body of work attempts to both capture and generate the fleeting atmospheres that constitute the experiences of human, nonhuman, and nonliving beings in an era of climate warming.

In March 2020, as a large percentage of the global population sheltered within their homes due to a pandemic, bodily coincidence within space and time was no longer feasible. In isolation, people experienced viral infection, job loss, police brutality, mental illness, domestic violence, food insecurity and, more broadly, great uncertainty. At the same time, households also began to turn inward and tend to small worlds: erecting a balcony garden, updating a social media profile, painting a nursery. This project is thus tethered to these kinds of everyday smallness or enclosure, theoretically and methodologically. 

Research questions to consider might include:

• What is a small world? What and where are its boundaries? And how can we define or measure our responsibility towards such a place?

• What does it mean to attune to the/a world (i.e., what is attunement)? How can we do so, and do so successfully? And to what, specifically, should we attune?

• What is at stake when we turn towards or away from other beings?