Installation Image from the exhibition Feelers: Towards Reciprocal Sensing, part of the Fulcrum Festival 2022 Deep Ocean/ Deep Space, LA . Curated by Supercollider. Installation Images by Brian Gambers.
Curatorial Statement of the exhibition “ The climate crisis originated in an unraveling, with human animals becoming disentangled from their nested ecologies and instead self-envisioned as central planetary figures. In the process, privileged human forms of sensing, perceiving, and intelligence were made dominant, pushing a rich diversity of ways of knowing and feeling to the margins. How might sensing and thinking with vegetal, animal, and other multispecies intelligences reconfigure our planetary relations? How might dominant knowledge systems be reconnected with marginalized wisdoms? And how might we seek shared sensory understandings with beings very different from us, from the deep recesses of the sea to extraterrestrial life?
The exhibition FEELERS proposes an expanded sensoria, complicating our understanding of feeling, sensing, and knowing. Affirming a plurality of sense-making, the exhibited artworks adopt deliberate and exploratory methods that reorient humans in relation to more-than-human beings, complicate notions of intelligence, and re-introduce perspectives outside of our own. In doing so, they generate new possibilities for respecting and connecting with multispecies understandings”