In November 2014, Rachel Harkness, Cristián Simonetti and Judith Winter, mixed a solid-fluid cube of concrete in the Nelson Center for Environment, Culture and Society of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for 'The Anthropocene Slam" event. This was an invitation, in the spirit of a poetry slam, for scholars and artists to “pitch” objects which could belong in a Anthropocene cabinet of curiosities, emulating the traditional Cabinets of Curiosities of the 16th century. This object, which they coloquially named 'concrete!', emerged as a product of experimentation with the material.

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In the event, they approached ideas of velocity, scale and strength in concrete, presenting its paradoxical condition. For more information on the event, please follow:

http://nelson.wisc.edu/che/anthroslam/

http://edgeeffects.net/anthropocene-slam-mutiny-play-everyday/