You must carry me now

• Main Authors: Snaebjornsdottir, Bryndis, Wilson, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: 700 ARTS & RECREATION (collections; philosophy & education); 704 Special topics in fine & decorative arts; Anchorage; glaciers; Iceland; Alaska
• Online Access: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4390/; https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4390/1/Wilson_YouMustCarry.jpeg; http://www.nylo.is/en/events/infinite-next/

Infinite Next is an international group exhibition of works by Anna Líndal, Amy Howden-Chapman, Bjarki Bragason, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Pilvi Takala (curators: Bjarki Bragason, Anna Líndal and Þorgerður Ólafsdóttur). Inifinity is limitless, there is endless space, size or context and it is impossible to measure or view it in entirety. Works in the exhibition each deal with systems which all societies struggle with; late-capitalism, ecosystems in degradation, human experiments to alter the environment, knowledge production, manifestations and the effects of humans on the environment. Since the beginning of agriculture and with the industrial revolution, which took place between 1760 and 1820-40, humans have become a geological force. Human activity began to mark deeper footprints on the planet and cause changes to natural processes. Today the effects are apparent in climate change, which is hard to quantify as an entirety, instead it appears as fragments in all things, as an imbalance in bio systems, droughts or rain, as changes in circumstances and future prospects of all species. Recently in world history, culture has been able to produce products that continue to have an impact dozens of millennia after the production or their use occurred. Thus, the residue of atomic bombs will spread and glaciers melt, thousands of years after the plug has been pulled on all the world’s factories. The geological timeframe has overlapped with the human timeframe for the first time. Ahead are endless connections between processes that upon first sight are not directly related; communities of the past and the present infiltrate the future, which individuals try to imagine and locate themselves within, while political power systems struggle to form common goals. Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir & Mark Wilson are resident in Iceland and the UK. They are a collaborative artist team, whose art practice is research based and socially-engaged, exploring issues of history, culture and environment in relation to both humans and non-human animals. Their artworks have been exhibited internationally and they have delivered papers on art and animal studies worldwide. They are currently working with Anchorage Museum, Alaska on a two year research project, and they are part of a cross disciplinary research into ‘plant blindness’ funded by the Swedish Science Council. Mark is a Professor at the University of Cumbria and Bryndís is a Visiting Professor at Malmö Art Academy and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts.