BKL – A Fieldguide to Unfamiliar Landscapes

Between 2013–2017, the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) group conducted fieldwork at formerly mined brown coal beds in central Jutland, Denmark. BKL seemed to be a banal corner of the Anthropocene—destroyed, homogenous, controlled—where we nonetheless learned to attend to numerous surprises, confusions, and ambiguities. We rarely found what we expected, yet we learned to attune ourselves to the strangeness of an apparently boring landscape. Aura Group consists of Meredith Root-Bernstein, Heather Swanson, Pierre du Plessis, Stine Vestbo, Mathilde Højrup. They invited John Law, Felix Riede, Camilla Berner and Joshua Kim to join them.