seed simulation laboratory

The Department of Planetary Futures Seed Simulation Laboratory and Mission Nucleus (2021)

The Seed Simulation Laboratory (SSL) and Mission Nucleus is an interactive art installation, performance set, and viewing room; A speculative entity situated within The Department of Planetary Futures wherein collaborative Principal Investigators, or Co-Pilots, investigate seed pods as tiny survival methodologies through embodied replication.

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Humans often imagine themselves as separate from nature, enacting harmful practices of domination as opposed to living in reciprocity with the natural world. How might our relationships with imagined planetary futures be more fruitful if they begin from a process of listening to and drawing from the wisdom of plants? How might humans and nature be better served collectively if humans practice plant-based survival tactics?

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Co-Pilots engaged in a series of experiments analyzing seed pod movements and translating them into both planned and improvisational human movements.​

What are the human bodily limitations in attempts to practice seed dispersal mechanisms as a human survival tactic? Where might humor and joy be found in the practice of recognizing human limitations in relationship to nature, as opposed to domination?​

The Mission Nucleus serves as a Control Room or Viewing Station, where performance and experiment documentation come together in a multichannel video and sound experience. 

 

Created by Jacklyn Brickman and Kathryn Nusa Logan  as The Department of Planetary Futures

Co-Pilots: Katherine Moore and Sabine Bahrou

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This performance was recorded at Urban Arts Space on June 8, 2021