Feral Atlas Maps the More-Than-Human Anthropocene in ArtReview Power 100

Feral Atlas, a digital project launched in 2021 by anthropologists Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and architect-artist Feifei Zhou, rejects hierarchical disciplinary approaches to map nondesigned ecological effects of imperial and industrial infrastructures. It gathers 79 field reports on 64 feral entities—living and nonliving beings that proliferate through infrastructure—illustrated as watercolours by Zhou and Maria Saeki. The platform is structured around four Anthropocene Detonator Landscapes (Invasion, Empire, Capital, Acceleration) that juxtapose infrastructure programmes with feral ecologies. These landscapes incorporate collaged elements from Indigenous and diasporic artists including Nancy McDinny, Andy Everson, Larry Botchway, Amy Lien, and Enzo Camacho. For ArtReview's Power 100, Feral Atlas presents the Detonator Landscapes alongside selected feral entities with 'thought bombs' from field reports. The project draws inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' (1986), embracing a feminist, nonlinear storytelling approach. An upcoming book, 'Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature', is scheduled for publication by Stanford University Press in 2024.