DUMP! gathers together artists, scientists, and organisms to explore the practice of multispecies collaboration that emerge in the ruins of modernity and industrialized progress.

Contesting the celebratory logics of invention and making that dominate contemporary discourse; the exhibition creates an arena for waste, obsolescence, and decomposition, where processes of nurturing and collective cultivation may begin to germinate. The division between the art, science and natural history museum, and the separation between wonder and comprehension, is collapsed in a compost heap where resistance and resilience gradually compile over the duration of the exhibition.

In collaboration with Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), a conference and a series of interdisciplinary experiments will be developed to explore multispecies relationship in blasted landscapes. These will be presented in September 2015

ARTISTS: AURA, AMY BALKIN, ET AL., LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN, MABE BETHÔNICO, BOB BRAINE, MARK DION & ALEXIS ROCKMAN, PATTY CHANG, DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, PETER FEND, FERNANDO GARCIA-DORY, JACQUELINE GOSS, TUE GREENFORT, HENNING KNUDSEN & ANNA TSING, DANA SHERWOOD, ÅSA SONJASDOTTER, SPURSE, KIDLAT TAHIMIK, CECILIA VICUÑA, PAWEL WOJTASIK, THE YES MEN.

CURATED BY: ELAINE GAN, STEVEN LAM & SARAH LOOKOFSKY

The exhibition is part of COLLECTIVE MAKING series and supported by Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommune, Det Obelske Familiefond. Developed in collaboration with Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA)