Welcome to our growing resource list
Effects of Micro-Plastics in the Environment
Turning the Tide on Plastic, Lucy Siegle, 2018
Effects of Micro-Plastics on Human Health
Micro-Plastic related work done by companies and industries
Micro-Plastic related work done by activists and NGOs
Micro-Plastic related work done by local authorities and policy makers
Related artists, designers and researchers
Susan Schuppli, Can the Sun Lie?, 2014, www.susanschuppli.com
Susan Schuppli, Trace Evidence, 2016, www.susanschuppli.com
Sophie Dyer, Gabriela Ivens, “What would a feminist open source Investigation look like?, 2020
Liam Young (Unknown Fields Division), Lithium Dreams, 2015, www.unknownfieldsdivision.com
Nerea Calvillo, In the Air, 2011, www.cmasarquitectos.net
Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, The Crochet Coral Reef, 2015, www.crochetcoralreef.org
Mark Dion, Tate Thames Dig, 1999, www.tate.org.uk
Xandra van der Eijk, www.xandravandereijk.nl
Related art exhibitions
Anthropocene Observatory
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), 2013–2014
De Hollandse Savanne
Museum De Domijnen (Sittard), 2018
Microplastics Exhibition
Sewer Museum (Brussels), 2021 – open until 19 June 2021
Documentaries and videos
Oceans: The Mystery of the Missing Plastic
Vincent Perazio, 53 min, 2016
The Mermaids’ Tears: Oceans of Plastic
Sandrine Feydel, 54 min, 2009
Albatross
Chris Jordan, 97 min, 2017
Into Eternity
Michael Madsen, 75 min, 2010
Extinction Rebellion and the Battle of the Century
Alizée Chiappini and Adèle Flaux, 82 min, 2019
Books and articles
Against the Anthropocene – Visual Culture and Environment Today, T.J. Demos, 2017
Living Earth – Field Notes from the Dark Ecology Project 2014–2016, Robert Young, 2016
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton, 2013
Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism, Alice Twemlow, 2017
Facing Gaia – Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, Bruno Latour, 2017
Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray, Katrin Klingan, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol and Bernd M. Scherer, 2015
Forensis – The Architecture of Public Truth, Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman, 2014
Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth, Buckminster Fuller, 1968