In this artist talk, photographer Yann Mingard and curator Lars Willumeit present the projects DEPOSIT and Seven Sunsets by Yann Mingard. The conversation will also focus on their ongoing form of collaboration-practice that they have developed together since 2010.

Both the above mentioned projects were developed together as image-text reflections on the condition of the Anthropocene, defined as the most recent geological time period, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.

This terminology then indicates that we as a species have been acting as a major geological force from at least the onset of the industrial revolution, or as Bruno Latour writes in Face à Gaïa (Facing Gaia): “As our energy needs increase, human civilisation ‘operates,’ so to speak, with 17 terawatts, 24/7, meaning its impact is comparable to the energy expenditure of a volcano or a tsunami— which are obviously more violent but over a shorter period of time. Some calculations even draw a parallel between mankind’s powers to transform plate tectonics.”