Catastrophic Acts by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese

Catastrophic Acts brings together major elements from LigoranoReese’s series of works entitled Melted Away which they began in 2006 – time-lapse videos that record the disappearance of large, performative sculptures and digital prints focusing on them as they erode and vanish.
The title Dawn of the Anthropocene comes from Nobel prize scientist Paul Crutzen’s term for the increasing power of humanity on the Earth’s systems. In his and other scientists’ view, the world has entered an age where the impact of humans is as great, if not greater, than nature’s.