Aartists Kristaps Ancāns, Agate Tuna, and Anna Malicka gather for a presentation and discussion of “Botanical Timeline,” a new collaborative multi-media installation commissioned for the exhibition. The event is moderated by curator Corina L. Apostol. This timeline reconsiders our relationship with plants by highlighting voices, gestures, and approaches that challenge dominant assumptions. It supports the opening up of new perspectives and encourages multiple ways of thinking and imagining. Reflecting plant entanglements with one another, including the histories of colonialism, gender, economics, and politics, the piece explores how words make worlds and put forth perspectives for different futures. Each video chapter in the “Botanical Timeline” works as a tool to access the social and ecological imaginaries that unfold in the exhibition, acknowledging diverse ways of being, thinking, and doing. It also reflects how colonial taxonomies have shaped the language and conditions of botanical conscriptions that were extensions of political power. The artists and curator will address strategies for a conscious untangling of colonial vocabulary as new voices emerge, creating space for reflections and producing textual tools to understand botanical lives.
New York City, NY; NYC