Case Study of Hu Yue’s Humanscape: A Living Archive in the Anthropocene by Henry Rice

Synopsis:

“Imagine a house on a hill overlooking a cold sea. Portraits of its current occupants and its past hang on display, framed by books and mementos. However, the view that this house, these occupants have experienced, has changed; house now hugs a stretching coastline where the sea once rolled unabated. The land has become a ‘Humanscape’. With geo-engineering, the horizon has been altered, the sea moved, and this new shape of the land stands in contrast to the memory of what it once was. In this essay, as an Archival MA student, I will explore the use of a living archive in relation to geo-engineered landscapes, using the ongoing artwork Humanscape by Hu Yue as a case study.”

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