Plant Intelligence and Vegetal Re-enlightenments
The third session of In the Making will feature the work of multidisciplinary artist, researcher and filmmaker Felipe Castelblanco, who is currently Postdoctroal artistic resarcher at the Institute Art Gender Nature at the HGK Basel FHNW, in the context of the project Plant Intelligence.
The Amazon rainforest is a space where plants and humans co-create and communicate in unlikely ways. Together, they produce territories, heal, and form alliances that render the forest as a pluriversal space of vegetal resistance, mutualism and intelligibility. In this context, artist and researcher Felipe Castelblanco explores vegetal ontologies via nocturnal plant fluorescence, expanded cinema and participatory research to investigate unseen vegetal capacities that sustain biocultural relations and re-energize human–plant co-existence.
The session will start with a presentation by Felipe Castelblanco and a screening of his work. In the second part of the session, a panel dialogue will take place including Castelblanco and three young artist researchers at different stages in their careers who will introduce their ongoing research: Roc Montoriol (Sonology Master’s student), Mariana Fernandez Mora (PD candidate Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and Andong Zheng (KABK Alumnus – Photography & Society Master).
Programme
18.30 Starting off with free soup and encounters
19.00 Start public session (lectures + panel discussion)
21.00 After talk and free access to the current exhibitions
22.00 Closing
Location
The programme will take place in at West Den Haag, in the former American embassy in The Hague (Lange Voorhout 102, 2514 EJ, Den Haag—walking distance The Hague Central), on Thursday nights from 18.30 — 21.00.
