The Mystery of Brunaspis enigmatica

2016, mixed media, 147 x 88 x 17 cm, in collaboration with JanZalasiewicz, Globale: Reset Modernity!, ZKM

In this speculative project the artist Anne-Sophie Milon and geologist Jan Zalasiewicz asked themselves what the office of a paleontologist would look a 100 million years from now. The puzzled far-future palaeontologist is trying to understand a specific fossil, Brunaspis enigmatica, and the strange and short geological time of our own present, the Anthropocene (or as called in the future the Great Crisis Stratum).
The installation stages various sketches, fossils and an article which result from this enquiry:

Brunaspis enigmatica reinterpretation of a presumed artefaction from the Great Crisis Stratum as a predator-modified organic petrifaction.pdf