Speaking the anthropocene: slow writing in collaborative performance art

A documentation of a public performance artwork titled Speaking the Anthropocene which is located within a longitudinal performance art collaboration project called Illuminous that combines creative writing, music and live performance art practices. The author reflects on the work in terms of observing ways to speak the Anthropocene, noting the public art and practice-led research contexts relating to the work. The discoveries made during praxis can be read as aligning with Deborah Bird Rose’s proposal of ‘slow writing as one response to our impossible position as participants in and witnesses to catastrophes beyond our comprehension’.