Zheng Bo Gets Intimate—and Political—with Plants
The Chinese artist finds queer, socialist possibilities among ferns and herbs.
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Cross Contamination
A conversation on pollution and bioremediation in the lab and in the gallery.
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Maria Thereza Alves on Her Project “Seeds of Change”
The Berlin-based Brazilian artist reports on research into the inadvertent dispersal of various plants via immigration, colonization, and the transatlantic slave trade.
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Not All Microbes
Employing bacteria, yeast, and other microorganisms in their work, a number of contemporary artists are exploring—and challenging—the common associations of microbial life with danger.
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Going Green
Seeing plants as conduits for cooperation and memory, artist Conrad Ventur maps connections between plant care and contemporary concerns about climate, politics, and the economy.
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Bio Art: Interspecies Collaborations + Sculpting with Mushrooms + Art for Octopi
Bio art is that work made with nonhuman living things, either as materials or as collaborators.
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Sowing Discourse
These artists probe the politics of plants, showing how histories of forced labor and agricultural extraction continue to go hand in hand.
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Mushrooms as Metaphors
These sculptors reveal what fungi can teach us about surviving a climate crisis.
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Liz Larner: Unstill Life
The LA sculptor's mature work evinces the same embrace of play and chance as her early experiments with bacteria.
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