https://queerecology.org IQECO Thu, 21 May 2026 20:50:27 +0000 https://queerecology.org en https://queerecology.org/I-Wish-We-Had-More-Time Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:56:51 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/I-Wish-We-Had-More-Time <img width="3500" height="2475" width_o="3500" height_o="2475" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/365742fc726de8ac801068882be0345bc1f971ff95d4e0889507b31887d360d8/Kunsthaus_QueerEcology_-0321.jpg" data-mid="248666033" border="0" alt="&copy; KunstHausWien / photo: Iris Ranzinger" data-caption="© KunstHausWien / photo: Iris Ranzinger" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/365742fc726de8ac801068882be0345bc1f971ff95d4e0889507b31887d360d8/Kunsthaus_QueerEcology_-0321.jpg" />© KunstHausWien / photo: Iris RanzingerI Wish We Had More TimeKunstHausWien - Museum HundertwasserApr 10–Aug 9 2026 As part of the Vienna Climate Biennale, KunstHausWien presents "I Wish We Had More Time", the first solo exhibition of the Institute of Queer Ecology in Austria. With contributions by: Ramiro Ávila Macias, Maya Björnson, daniela brill estrada, Jevon Brown, Alice Bucknell, Christine Alice Cortes Cañon, Sasha Fishman, Ivana Franke &amp; Oriana Walker, Andrea Grill, Anwyn Howarth, Sabrina Imbler, JASCHA&amp;FRANZ, Andre Naranjo, Alina Perez, Aura Raulo &amp; Topi Raulo &amp; Lotta Taarasti, Jasmine Respess, Virginia G. Ruiz, Micah Schippa-Wildfong, Evan Silver aka Tiresias, misael soto, A.L. Steiner, Laurencia Strauss, Sun Belt, Wolfy Sunset, Fereshteh Toosi, Yuri Tuma, Untitled Queen, LuLu Victoria-Lacy, Vicens Vila-Coury, Jessica Ware, Oscar Wilson, Cy X, Haiwen Yu, agustine zegersCurated by Stephan Kuss &amp; Veronika Hackl with Nicolas Baird and Lee Pivnik View Exhibition Catalog Here The exhibition is presented as part of the Klima Biennale Wien<img width="3000" height="3751" width_o="3000" height_o="3751" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5883f7d8c1a67ed408eacd6400699cc68a6e77821e867d9d1eae6daf13c5c6c6/I-Wish-We-Had-More-Time-_final_flyer.JPEG" data-mid="246890260" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5883f7d8c1a67ed408eacd6400699cc68a6e77821e867d9d1eae6daf13c5c6c6/I-Wish-We-Had-More-Time-_final_flyer.JPEG" /> All forms of life on Earth are marked by change. Nature appears to be a balance between growth and decay, life and death, rise and fall. While some things return in cycles, others vanish forever. I Wish We Had More Time examines loss—one of the fundamental experiences of existence—in its multilayered dimensions: ecological, social, and personal. Changes in climatic conditions destabilize the environmental balance of multispecies communities and confront many organisms with enormous challenges as they try to adapt. The fragility of coexistence comes to light through social crises and collaborative efforts to deal with the related impact: archives preserve queer histories and maintain continuities. Chosen families develop new forms of care and connectedness. On the personal level, loss is acutely felt in love and wistful longing, in encounters with the right person at the wrong time, in missed opportunities, in fading passion and broken trust. Thirty-four contributors—not only artists, but scientists, writers, musicians, performers—respond to these themes, capturing direct impressions through diverse media: drawings, prints, photographs, videos, audio pieces, objects, and texts. They engage in reciprocal dialogue, create resonances, and initiate unexpected connections. In their openness, urgency, and dynamic form, they present fleeting states and conditions before these change or are lost. A focal sculpture, the Orrery of Interconnected Loss, weaves the individual works into a queer cosmology of loss.The exhibition presents loss visually as a shared experience and thus opens up speculative scenarios: What could have been, what almost was and what may be. Akin to a time capsule, narratives, relationships, and traces are transported into future presents and, through the ongoing process of collecting and preserving, gradually grow into an archive of loss. The Institute of Queer Ecology, co-directed by Lee Pivnik and Nicolas Baird, is a constantly developing collaborative organism aiming to put peripheral solutions to ecological crises at the centre of public awareness. Their interdisciplinary projects are embedded in the theoretical framework of queer ecology, an adaptive practice that explores interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationships. The collective questions destructive anthropocentric hierarchies and imagines a just, relational future, one in which human and more-than-human life forms coexist equally. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6aff086ad90f72f1bfb279ce005b3fe728dc1f312129bb2b77c5dd7ab0fb83fc/DAC_04_0132_3_4_W_02.jpg" data-mid="248630520" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6aff086ad90f72f1bfb279ce005b3fe728dc1f312129bb2b77c5dd7ab0fb83fc/DAC_04_0132_3_4_W_02.jpg" /> <img width="4569" height="3045" width_o="4569" height_o="3045" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f95b15bbe90a3a8de2da32c2202cc0901f575e53fbbb28a8f3fcdc373789594/DAC_04_0662_3_4_0511.jpg" data-mid="248630521" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f95b15bbe90a3a8de2da32c2202cc0901f575e53fbbb28a8f3fcdc373789594/DAC_04_0662_3_4_0511.jpg" /> DCW Open Call Exhibition: HUMORS, Installation View, DOOSAN Art Center DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, 2026, Photo by Yeonkeun Choi Today’s world is filled with problems so vast and complex that they can at times feel like a cruel joke. The exhibition HUMORS examines how artists confront this reality, and how they reinterpret and respond to the contemporary moment through their own languages and sensibilities. The exhibition HUMORS begins from this sensibility. Here, “humor” does not simply mean jokes or wit; if one must put a word to it, it is closer to a kind of satirical warmth.[1] It is not laughter that lets one pass lightly over a situation, but a sensibility that emerges only after looking all the way through. In this exhibition, humor appears not as a way of lightening reality, but as a way of twisting it into something strange, making it visible again. The participating artists each engage with the present in their own ways, yet they share a common impulse: rather than accepting reality as given, they attempt to layer other dimensions onto it. In Ayoung Kim’s work, this impulse becomes narrative—a tendency toward overturning reality. Unlike her recent works, which seem to advance into an endless unknown, her earlier works—Tales of a City (2010) and Ephemeral Ephemera (2007–2009)—are grounded in a realistic awareness of actual events and the artist’s persistent research. The work presented in this exhibition, Al-Mather Plot 1991 (2025), reconstructs this earlier approach together with the accumulated imaginative worlds she has developed through her practice, intertwining them with personal memory. Set against the backdrop of the Al-Mather housing complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the work intersects the history of the Gulf War with the artist’s family experiences. Built by a Korean construction company, the site once served as temporary housing for Kuwaiti refugees and is also connected to the artist’s father’s time there.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;As video, 3D simulation, maps, interviews, and archival materials overlap, the work forms a scene where multiple times and memories intersect, rather than a linear narrative. Through this, the artist does not simply reproduce a heavy and complex historical narrative, but twists it into another dimension, operating as a sensibility that renders strange the very way we understand reality. This is not a gesture of lightness, but rather an unfamiliar rupture that emerges from pushing through layers of history and personal memory to their limits. Bang Jeong-A’s paintings depart from everyday scenes, yet they reflect the present world from a different angle. She does not pass over the ecology of her region, the rights of animals and plants, or the contradictions within her surrounding society. This sustained attention leads her beyond the studio into direct engagement and participation. In turn, her canvases remain flexible even when addressing weighty subjects such as the environment or politics. Rather than dwelling in sympathy or guilt, she works through humor and distance.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;In the new work So-nagi (2026), presented in this exhibition, figures beneath the water’s surface reveal different states of being. Some appear to have already reached a certain calm, while others barely manage to breathe. As the artist describes it: “Although the situation is unstable, some seem to have found peace, while others are barely staying afloat, expelling water. It is perhaps an image of ourselves, struggling and gradually coming to understand as we search for ways to endure within a fragile planetary condition.” These scenes evoke how, under unstable conditions, we each endure the present in different ways. This continues the trajectory of works such as Crowd Swimming (2017) and Rather Not Think (2015), reaffirming the artist’s ongoing exploration of human existence in states of imbalance. Mooni Perry uses ritual and narrative to reveal the tension between collective memory and social structures. Like her earlier works—Binlang Xishi (2021) and EL (2025)—she builds her stories around figures who are present yet rendered invisible. The work Missing (2024), included in this exhibition, follows the condition of disappearance. The work captures points where folk beliefs, ghost narratives, and contemporary systems intersect in specific regions of Taiwan, asking how invisible presences are remembered and forgotten. Moving beyond mere documentation, it reveals the emotional and political dimensions surrounding disappearance, while tracing how personal experiences of loss transform into collective memory. Ultimately, Missing presents the state of being unfound not as a fixed conclusion, but as an endlessly generative field of narrative—prompting us to think critically about what we are structured to remember and what we are made to forget. Through overlapping research and interviews across East Asia, mythological storytelling, and personal experience, the work refrains from defining what has disappeared or why. Instead, it evokes the instability of memory, identity, and perception after loss. In this way, the artist regards disappearance not as absence but as a condition for new creation, revealing a journey that seeks the possibility of new narratives and sensibilities between what is invisible and what remains. The Institute of Queer Ecology continues its practice by imagining worlds beyond anthropocentric order and making declarations about other ways of living. Co-run by Lee Pivnik and Nicolas Baird, the collective draws on queer theory, ecology, and digital aesthetics to understand “nature” and “identity” not as fixed but as relational and constantly shifting. This exhibition surveys their collaborations and projects in archival form, while Metamorphosis (2020), which runs through their worldview, offers the clearest articulation of their position and approach. One of IQECO’s key projects, Common Survival (2018), explores how various species and beings become entangled in coexistence, beyond human-centered notions of survival. It redefines survival not as competition or adaptation but as a process of relation and interdependence, blurring boundaries between human and non-human, organic and digital beings. In particular, the way it uses online platforms and virtual environments—where participants take on roles within a shared ecosystem and build narratives together—experimentally enacts the decentralized worldview IQECO pursues. Ultimately, their work uses the question of “surviving together” to ask again what kinds of beings we are connected to, and in what ways.[1] Michel Schneider, Schumann: Landschaften der Seele (Korean trans. Kim Nam-ju, ThatBook. Co., 2014), pp. 120–141. The exhibition borrows its title from ‘Humor,’ used as a performance direction in Schumann’s piano works. Here, Humor refers to coloring a state with its opposite—an integration of the most external (humor) and the most intimate (mood), a fusion of contradictory elements. * To mark the 15th year of DOOSAN Curator Workshop (DCW) in 2025, the "DCW Open Call Exhibition" was newly started to invite past DCW Alumni (2011-2022). Through this initiative, DOOSAN Gallery aims to revisit and share the diverse curatorial experiments and practices of curators who have previously participated in DCW.Special thank you to&nbsp;Yurmyung Kim and MELTMIRROR for organizing “Metabite” a public program that invited attendees to imagine multispecies becomming through an interactive game based on IQECO’s film Metamorphosis. 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Museo de Arte ZapopanZapopan, MexicoFrom May 15 to November 2, 2025.Curator: Maya Renée EscárcegaArtists:ASMA, Ramiro Ávila, Carolina Fusilier, Scott Galván, Joey Holder, Karla Kaplun, Xin Liu and Lucia Monge, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Federico Pérez Villoro, Renata Petersen, Larissa Sansour, Lino Vite, The Institute of Queer Ecology <img width="2500" height="1500" width_o="2500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8f4254b6962a5d36cf88816220207c812caced299905f9ea9d1191c9fac3d32/atras_0000_ADA-46.jpg" data-mid="246742990" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8f4254b6962a5d36cf88816220207c812caced299905f9ea9d1191c9fac3d32/atras_0000_ADA-46.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1500" width_o="2500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/328ff42dc0f5ee2dad975e2c219322a658fad9658a36cc0191168b654112d08e/atras_0003_ADA-39.jpg" data-mid="246742991" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/534ea69c5da2034515a5b4c4bfce35d763d7600739e676202fe00140f6a63c9c/MZP-3.JPG" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35e035ec441e7b59a2d1ac2c0c67354a97360bee4eaf9fbdfbdc29bde617d8d5/atras_maya-ig.png" data-mid="246742977" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35e035ec441e7b59a2d1ac2c0c67354a97360bee4eaf9fbdfbdc29bde617d8d5/atras_maya-ig.png" /> An Eastern legend held that the earth lay on the back of a whale, supported in turn by a bull, which in turn stood on a rock, and that this was supported by dust, beneath which no one knew what lay, except the immense sea of infinity. (Umberto Eco, History of the Earth and Legendary Places , 2013). “Flowers are blooming in Antarctica, and this is seriously worrying scientists,” read the headline of a news article. The collective imagination was swept away by a sense of horror, yet simultaneously captivated by the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a purple Saxifraga oppositifolia amidst the frost. Edmund Burke's vision of the sublime crumbled once we realized the news was false. Tundra moss and the flora that thrives in extreme conditions are not a product of the Anthropocene: they have always been there and are surviving the cataclysm alongside all other species. In the same vein, it has been erroneously taught since the 19th century that medieval thought conceived of the Earth as a disc or a dome, known as the "Flat Earth Myth." Columbus and his contemporaries conceived of a spherical Earth: they knew what they were doing . Thus, the flat-Earth theory serves as an allegory for access to information in times of political polarization. The alternative to questioning scientific paradigms, as well as the institutions that fund research with economic and political interests, is to adopt theological dogmas or esoteric traditions. When the spherical model becomes a nightmare and its wall a symbol of the global migration crisis, the flat-Earth model presents itself as a dream. At the edge of the disc, its ice wall prevents the sea from overflowing into the cosmic abyss and stands as a promise of another possible Earth, a park with abundant fruit. This exhibition presents imaginative representations of an alternate present and a possible future based on fictional cartography. It explores the flat-Earth perspective from its poetic and political potential, while also allowing us to question the sources of our knowledge and find meaning in fallacy, situated knowledge, ancestral memory, and magic. How can we validate forms of knowledge found in the supernatural, superstition, mythology, ritual, and religious mysticism without condoning theological dogma and sectarian co-optation? The exhibition unfolds within an expanded epistemological field, where ways of knowing, believing, and imagining intertwine. Through humor, critical thinking, and posthumanist visuality, the works reflect on the construction of worlds and the apprehension of knowledge on platforms that transcend the traditional school setting. Through artistic practices rooted in technoscientific research and knowledge, as well as in the literary and cinematic genre of science fiction, these digressions and shifts allow for a rethinking of notions of landscape, migration, and hybrid identities through speculation and political imagination, paving the way for both ecological utopias and dystopias. At the same time, they allow us to explore the appeal of cults and the potential of conspiracy as an alternative to the path proposed by modern science, while questioning “conspirituality”: How does one go from New Age to (eco)fascism*? Key figures in authoritarian regimes combined alternative medicine practices and organic diets, conspiracy theories, concepts from Hinduism, and esoteric and mystical beliefs, such as astrology, dowsing, and parapsychology, in their ideology to justify their supremacist ideas. https://queerecology.org/The-Earth-Does-Not-Need-Us Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:47:27 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/The-Earth-Does-Not-Need-Us <img width="2200" height="1467" width_o="2200" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77fe41ede9d63f15aa1aff65fbc871819b09a9554b545b7f3cc6363109717c1a/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-12.JPG" data-mid="222763182" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77fe41ede9d63f15aa1aff65fbc871819b09a9554b545b7f3cc6363109717c1a/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-12.JPG" /> THE EARTH DOES (NOT) NEED US The Institute of Queer Ecology in dialogue with Joseph Beuys23 June 2024–5 January 2025Museum Schloss MoylandBedburg-Hau, Germany <img width="2200" height="1467" width_o="2200" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a28b35795295758eb0f0c4ac719e41027a2f45e58543f8b7d939770cdd84e8a5/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-11.JPG" data-mid="222763181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a28b35795295758eb0f0c4ac719e41027a2f45e58543f8b7d939770cdd84e8a5/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-11.JPG" /> <img width="2200" height="1467" width_o="2200" height_o="1467" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f3d8c31acf549bfef425737b6abdb483c16e32f7f6622886288d7cd3ad06868/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-10.JPG" data-mid="222763180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f3d8c31acf549bfef425737b6abdb483c16e32f7f6622886288d7cd3ad06868/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-10.JPG" /> <img width="2200" height="1467" width_o="2200" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2538ae9e7453f486fc936007861ac9523fa9e5280dda1b3ee6a219a6cd57cc4/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-4.JPG" data-mid="222763173" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2538ae9e7453f486fc936007861ac9523fa9e5280dda1b3ee6a219a6cd57cc4/msm-ausstellungsansichten-theearthdoesnotneedus-display-4.JPG" /> With this exhibition, Museum Schloss Moyland is taking up what is undoubtedly the most existential debate of our time: in view of the climate crisis, the international network "The Institute of Queer Ecology" (IQECO) has been invited to enter into a dialog with Joseph Beuys' most relevant works on ecology and the environment. Both Beuys and IQECO regard art as a realm for intellectual exploration, serving as a platform to envision progressive futures and confront the challenges posed by climate change. Beuys, a co-founder of the German "Green Party" in 1979, stood as an advocate for nature and climate protection from its earliest moments. Half&nbsp;a century later, IQECO disrupts established norms with revolutionary and inspiring approaches toward a more equitable and sustainable ecology, based on queer theory. The IQECO advocates for the elimination of judgmental and binary thinking, promoting the acceptance of a more diversified reality of life. Outdated dualities such as natural versus unnatural, or human versus non-human, undergo deconstruction. Their works make the pervasive queerness in nature tangible, for example through plants that change their gender during their lifespan. In addition to historically significant works such as "7000 Oaks" (1982) or "Difesa della Natura" (1982) by Joseph Beuys, numerous new productions by IQECO await you in the castle, on the castle facade and in the park. These attest to IQECO's commitment to an inclusive, tolerant, mindful and diverse ecology, one that is not based&nbsp;on exclusion and simplification, but on inclusion and complexity. Curated by Judith Waldmann https://queerecology.org/Hysteria Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:53:56 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/Hysteria <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3bc37a82f3fab784eabdb48602212a1159906d8adefccf6c30337528c935868/20230303_KG_IQECO_VCR_LORES_010.JPG" data-mid="172717681" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3bc37a82f3fab784eabdb48602212a1159906d8adefccf6c30337528c935868/20230303_KG_IQECO_VCR_LORES_010.JPG" /> Hysteria 4 March 2023 – 4 June 2023 Kestner GesellschaftHannover, Germany Download the exhibition handout here. 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Photos by Volker Crone Hysteria is an original multichannel video installation by IQECO premiering at the Kestner Gesellschaft. In this installation, the institute uses image, movement, and sound to construct an ecofeminist retelling of the poorly understood “dancing plagues” that swept through Europe between the tenth and the seventeenth centuries. The afflicted dancers are subtly recast as pointedly subversive agents entangled in environmental contagion and contamination that drive these wild, manic uprisings. Dancing plagues (also referred to as dancing mania, choreomania, and tarantism) were spontaneous social phenomena in which groups of people, at times in the thousands, danced erratically and without restraint. The mania affected people of all ages and genders, and they often danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or suffered injury and even death. Although the phenomenon is well documented and affected multitudes of people across several centuries, these choreomanic events are still poorly understood. Some current theories explicitly cite ecological factors as likely origins for these choreomanic events. In one suggestion, the fungal disease ergotism, once known as St. Anthony’s fire, might be responsible for provoking widespread psychosocial turmoil. Ergot fungus would spread to rye and other grains in the damp periods following floods and in unseasonably rainy years, and the fruiting bodies of these fungi can cause hallucinations and convulsions when ingested. In their recent work, the IQECO navigates the idea of a vanishing “nature” through frameworks of queer futurity. The artists assume a position of critical optimism, in part as a coping mechanism for the pain of living in, engaging with, and loving a biodiverse world that is being undeniably annihilated.&nbsp; Curated by Alexander Wilmschen. Made possible with support from Light Work’s Urban Video Project (Syracuse, NY). https://queerecology.org/MUTABILITY-MUTUALISM-II Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:15:08 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/MUTABILITY-MUTUALISM-II MUTABILITY &amp; MUTUALISM IISeminar with the Institute for Postnatural Studies <img width="4500" height="4500" width_o="4500" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc685c6f8b0c72ea320014d2e3d4c3a28b80c91905bdc0cdd2f428d1d5d0f5b5/MUTABILITY---MUTUALISM_vol2-Recovered-01.png" data-mid="152326333" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc685c6f8b0c72ea320014d2e3d4c3a28b80c91905bdc0cdd2f428d1d5d0f5b5/MUTABILITY---MUTUALISM_vol2-Recovered-01.png" />REGISTER HERE For student discount or registration to the full Network Program, send an email to studies@instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org No. of sessions8 sessions120 min each DatesOct 18th, Oct 25th, Oct 27th, Nov 1st, Nov 3rd, Nov 8th, Nov 15th, Nov 22nd. Time18:30 to 20:30(CET / CEST) LanguageEnglish PartnerInstitute for Postnatural Studies Price150 €15% student discount Application for need based scholarships has closed. BRIEFQueerness and ecology together make visible the interconnected, entangled conditions of life on earth and honor the strange, multispecies amalgamation we live in community with. To make sense of the broad constellation of practices that emerge from Queer Ecology, we examine at two scales: the individual and the collective. As we explore, the binary distinction between these scales quickly blurs and blends. At the scale of the individual—the organism—Queerness is mutability: it is the power of transformation; of shapeshifting, fluency, and the freedom to move from form to form; of code-switching, mimicry, flamboyance, delight; of subtlety, grace, and the embrace of fluidity. It plays in contrast to rigidity, permanence, and stasis; to one way of being. It is a metamorphosis and a constant becoming. At the scale of the collective—the ecosystem—Queerness is mutualism: it is symbiotic, in-contact, relational; it is a space of eccentric economies and mutual support; of found families and utopian dreams; of care and connection and the net benefits species gift one another. It is a world shaped by cooperation. On a rapidly changing planet, Queer mutability and mutualism can guide us toward adaptation and survival. The speakers in this seminar series will consider the influence of mutability and mutualism on their work in the fields of visual art, evolutionary biology, biodiversity, environmental activism, music, ecology, and queer theory. <img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d783bb3f863c2fcce9455b35f325876a502264dd782057541228062a0eec3cf4/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_696b1a37-b214-4a13-867c-31b7ffc69d8b.PNG" data-mid="152328740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d783bb3f863c2fcce9455b35f325876a502264dd782057541228062a0eec3cf4/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_696b1a37-b214-4a13-867c-31b7ffc69d8b.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/542f78883c8c431074f42c177c08fb73bb5700cc907aaf81352f0e3b35755439/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_c89e6b7e-a0fe-4b0f-a699-5f3e57bdcb63.PNG" data-mid="152328742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/542f78883c8c431074f42c177c08fb73bb5700cc907aaf81352f0e3b35755439/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_c89e6b7e-a0fe-4b0f-a699-5f3e57bdcb63.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3a65189f27d4e6bb949c5ad1167e5cd7ca81afe1a65c08d15d4301897d397d5/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_5fada47e-21dc-4f79-8b3a-e994cd7a9165.PNG" data-mid="152328739" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3a65189f27d4e6bb949c5ad1167e5cd7ca81afe1a65c08d15d4301897d397d5/eelpicnic_butterfly_mimicking_a_wolfs_face_5fada47e-21dc-4f79-8b3a-e994cd7a9165.PNG" /> <img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa67d3bb21fbcbccc939a6fe362817584932cfd93253b7fa075b16d1c4cf163f/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_54b1f434-c823-4b13-a8fd-2742cb47083d.PNG" data-mid="152328727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa67d3bb21fbcbccc939a6fe362817584932cfd93253b7fa075b16d1c4cf163f/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_54b1f434-c823-4b13-a8fd-2742cb47083d.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/325232d1b0df40bd5ad2a9675161955fcb4122cf796a19f31a8e3cc957ab4979/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_910e6f7f-60f9-4803-86d5-9a82d6dd713b.PNG" data-mid="152328729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/325232d1b0df40bd5ad2a9675161955fcb4122cf796a19f31a8e3cc957ab4979/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_910e6f7f-60f9-4803-86d5-9a82d6dd713b.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4e2855bfc23be55542ded883e049f0828d2498c7cc92471d4241f496fb74408/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_8698ba27-ad33-42eb-ba22-7ba6d8e72caa.PNG" data-mid="152328730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4e2855bfc23be55542ded883e049f0828d2498c7cc92471d4241f496fb74408/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_8698ba27-ad33-42eb-ba22-7ba6d8e72caa.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78570c7fa691eb27a8ac1116f4b63044d3e7cb046e864d8e84a04f2cdcd405e7/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_d39a40b1-f44d-4701-9cc3-5542e65125dc.PNG" data-mid="152328731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78570c7fa691eb27a8ac1116f4b63044d3e7cb046e864d8e84a04f2cdcd405e7/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_d39a40b1-f44d-4701-9cc3-5542e65125dc.PNG" /><img width="1664" height="1664" width_o="1664" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbc2436478f0c85f7aed81c8272be59209985215dd7780fc29fd065be9012176/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_e3908fc0-b0e4-464b-8f9d-8296031fd71f.PNG" data-mid="152328732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbc2436478f0c85f7aed81c8272be59209985215dd7780fc29fd065be9012176/eelpicnic_a_scientific_illustration_of_a_crab_with_a_carapace_c_e3908fc0-b0e4-464b-8f9d-8296031fd71f.PNG" /> SPEAKERS 10/18/2022 - The Institute of Queer Ecology Lee Pivnik is a Miami-based artist, working predominantly in sculpture, video and social practice. In 2018 he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture and a concentration in Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies, and in 2022 he attended the Immersion Program at The School of Architecture (TSOA) at Arcosanti.Nicolas Baird is a biologist, artist, writer, and dancer living in New York City. Baird served as co-director for the Institute of Queer Ecology since 2017 and is currently working on a doctorate in paleobiology. In 2017 Pivnik started the Institute of Queer Ecology, a collaborative organism that works to imagine and realize an equitable multispecies future. He has continued to run the project alongside artist and evolutionary biologist Nicolas Baird. IQECO builds on the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. IQECO works to undo dangerously destructive human-centric hierarchies—or even flip them—to look at the critical importance of things happening invisibly; underground and out of sight. To date, the Institute of Queer Ecology has worked with over 120 different artists to present interdisciplinary programming that oscillates between curating exhibitions and directly producing artworks/projects. IQECO has presented projects with the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami, Florida), the Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf, Germany), the Medellín Museum of Modern Art (Medellín, Colombia), the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (Serbia), the Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Prairie (Chicago, IL), Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami, FL) Gas Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), among others. 10/25/2022 - Hayden Dunham Rooted in a strong belief in the transcendence of objects, Hayden Dunham creates atmospheric activity with mysterious, clouding vapors and kinetic sculptures that respond and react to their environments. The sculptor and installation artist works between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and their practice is grounded in extensive research, which has included geology, molecular biology, and chemistry, along with site visits to chemical plants and volcanoes. In the way the human body ingests and incorporates chemicals it comes into contact with, Dunham’s sculptures combine in the manner of chemical reactions, rather than collage, allowing for a new organicism to emerge. Dunham’s interest in materiality and reactivity relates back to the body, and the chemical interference and infusion of minerals, toxic waste, and pharmaceuticals. 10/27/2022-&nbsp; Sixto-Juan Zavala Sixto-Juan Zavala is a designer and illustrator from Texas currently based in London. He holds a BFA in Communication Design from Texas State University and an MA in Narrative Environments from UAL: Central Saint Martins, working&nbsp;particularly on exhibition design, illustration, print, collage, and typography. Zavala is especially interested in culture,&nbsp;marginalised groups, the environment, and using visual communication and spatial design to facilitate cultural change.Zavala founded Queer Botany in 2020; inspired by the theoretical lens of queer ecology, the project studies connections between queerness and plants through events, story-telling, and design. Queer Botany aims to share marginalised&nbsp;perspectives and support more diverse representations in the environment and outdoors, and to this end has designed&nbsp;maps, installed interpretive displays, hosted botanical drawing sessions, and guided walks sharing stories about plants from&nbsp;a queer perspective. Queer Botany has worked with Chelsea Physic Garden, Wellcome Collection, Barbican Centre, The&nbsp;Royal Parks, Fierce (Birmingham), Sutton House &amp; Breaker’s Yard (National Trust), and Fringe! Queer Film &amp; Arts Festival. 11/1/2022 - Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens In 2002, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle fell in love and have worked together collaboratively ever since, doing visual art, performance, theater, and happenings. They launched the Ecosex Movement (2008) from their home base in San Francisco, and have been doing art experiments to make environmental activism more fun and diverse. Career highlights include Wedding to the Sea at the Venice Biennale, being Documenta 14 artists, and a screening of their documentary film Water Makes Us Wet at NY MoMA. They received a Guggenheim Grant in 2021 for their current film project, Playing with Fire. Their book (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) Assuming the Ecosexual Position—Earth as Lover chronicles their art/life adventures. 11/3/2022 -&nbsp;Fereshteh Toosi Fereshteh Toosi designs experiences that pose questions and foster animistic connections through encounter, exchange, and sensory inquiry.&nbsp;Their artwork often involves documentary processes, oral history, and archival research. Immersive performances are produced in conjunction with small sculptures, short films, installations, scores, and poetry, often situated outdoors in gardens, parks, and waterways. In 2022, Fereshteh is in a residency program with Solar Power for Artists. In 2021, they participated in the Montréal/Miami New Narratives Lab hosted by the National Film Board of Canada, O Cinema, MUTEK, and FilmGate Interactive. They also earned a Knight New Work 2020 award for their project Oil Ancestors, and a Miami Live Arts Lab Alliance residency to develop Metaphysical Hotline, a performance by telephone for an audience of one. Water Radio, a series of contemplative canoe and kayak outings, was supported by The Ellies Creator Award in 2018. Fereshteh is an educator, learner, and an artist of the Iranian and Azeri diaspora, currently in Miami-Dade on stolen lands still stewarded by the Miccosukee and Seminole people, and previously by the Calusa and Tequesta tribal bands. South Florida is home to many Indigenous people, as well as Black, Brown, and Caribbean people whose ancestors lived and worked on the land against their will, while enslaved, or under threat of violence. Fereshteh’s work relies on the extractive and colonial infrastructure of digital computation which uses electronics and servers, all of which are made possible by occupying places where other beings live, or once lived. 11/8/2022 - Jack Halberstam Jack Halberstam is a Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books including Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and collections. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book on Fascism and (homo)sexuality. Jack Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995) and a special issue of Social Text with Jose Munoz and David Eng titled “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” Jack is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the country and internationally every year. Lecture topics include queer failure, sex, media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, and animation. 11/15/2022 -&nbsp; Christy Gast Christy Gast is an artist whose work across media stems from extensive research and site visits to places she thinks of as “contested landscapes.” She is interested in places where there is evidence of conflict in human desires, which she traces, translates or mirrors through her art practice. Since 2010 she has worked with Ensayos, a collective research practice working on issues of political ecology in Tierra del Fuego and other archipelagos.Her work has been exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa, Artist’s Space, Harris Lieberman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York; the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, and Nina Johnson in Miami; as well as Mass MoCA, the American University Museum, L.A.C.E., High Desert Test Sites, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Chile), the Kadist Foundation (Paris) and Milani Gallery (Brisbane). She has received grants and awards from the Art Matters Foundation, Funding Arts Network, South Florida Cultural Consortium, Tigertail, the American Austrian Foundation Hayward Prize, and the Joan Sovern Sculpture Award from Columbia University. 11/22/2022 - Institute for Postnatural Studies After a brief introduction to the postnatural framework, this session will focus on new modes of overcoming the human/animal binomial. We will explore how humans have interacted with animals in western culture and contrast it with other approaches to multi-species coexistence. Collectively we will also exercise different ways of embodying an expanded notion of the human-animal through vocal activations and roleplaying through hybrid bodies. Case studies of wild children, the phonocene, contemporary artistic practices, and different cultural and popular subgenres of identity and sexuality will provide a horizontal and fertile platform to discuss and learn from each other. _________ Organizers: Institute of Queer Ecology IQECO is a collaborative organism that supports the necessary transition away from extractive, exploitative systems towards mutually symbiotic living. IQECO builds on the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. Institute for Postnatural Studies IPS is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. Founded in 2020, it is conceived as a networked place that brings together artists and researchers concerned with the issues of the global ecological crisis. https://queerecology.org/MUTABILITY-MUTUALISM-Seminar-with-the-Institute-for-Postnatural Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:51:34 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/MUTABILITY-MUTUALISM-Seminar-with-the-Institute-for-Postnatural <img width="4500" height="3006" width_o="4500" height_o="3006" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1daac81cbffa30d6324a2f351eb6fa132de1ccb5bc75ab163f719b1ce7d8942f/MUTABILITY---MUTUALISM-08.jpg" data-mid="140619230" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1daac81cbffa30d6324a2f351eb6fa132de1ccb5bc75ab163f719b1ce7d8942f/MUTABILITY---MUTUALISM-08.jpg" /> MUTABILITY &amp; MUTUALISM Seminar with the Institute for Postnatural Studies&nbsp;May 17th–June 28th 7 online sessions* Every Tuesday from 19:00 to 21:00 GMT+1 Starting May 17th to June 28th 150€ registration fee (20% discount sending student certificate) Need-based scholarships available - inquire here! For registration and more info, please write&nbsp;studies@instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org *Online format throughout the whole seminar SYNOPSIS Queer Ecology is a theoretical framework that applies queer theory to environmental concerns, ecological constructs, and our relationships with nature. Queerness and ecology together make visible the interconnected, entangled conditions of life on earth and honour the strange, multispecies amalgamation we live in community with. To make sense of the broad constellation of practices that emerge from Queer Ecology, we examine at two scales: the individual and the collective. As we explore, the binary distinction between these scales quickly blurs and blends. At the scale of the individual—the organism—Queerness is mutability: it is the power of transformation; of shapeshifting, fluency, and the freedom to move from form to form; of code-switching, mimicry, flamboyance, delight; of subtlety, grace, and the embrace of fluidity. It plays in contrast to rigidity, permanence, and stasis; to one way of being. It is metamorphosis and a constant becoming. At the scale of the collective—the ecosystem—Queerness is mutualism: it is symbiotic, in-contact, relational; it is a space of eccentric economies and mutual support; of found families and utopian dreams; of care and connection and the net benefits species gift one another. It is a world shaped through cooperation. On a rapidly changing planet, Queer mutability and mutualism can guide us toward adaptation and survival. The speakers in this seminar series will consider the influence of mutability and mutualism on their work in the fields of visual art, evolutionary biology, biodiversity, environmental activism, synthetic biology, ecology, and queer theory. CALENDAR Session I - May 17th Institute of Queer Ecology Speaking on behalf of the Institute of Queer Ecology, co-directors Lee Pivnik and Nicolas Baird will present a brief history of the institute and share how their current research has led them to a focus on mutability and mutualism as foundational themes of Queer Ecology. They will identify how these themes can be embodied as a transformative strategy both for individual and planetary adaptation. Lee is a Miami-based artist whose current work is focused on the history of the built environment in South Florida, and looks towards local organisms and living systems to identify regenerative solutions to continue living in a city marked by precarity. Nicolas is an artist, evolutionary biologist, writer, and dancer currently living in Oracle, Arizona, whose scientific research and art practice are concerned with the evolutionary relationships between bodies and their landscapes, multispecies adaptation, and the transmutation of memory and dreams. Session II - May 24th Institute for Postnatural Studies After a brief introduction to the postnatural framework, this session will focus on new modes of overcoming the human/animal binomial. We will explore how humans have interacted with animals in western culture and contrast it with other approaches to multi-species coexistence. Collectively we will also exercise different ways of embodying an expanded notion of the human-animal through vocal activations and roleplaying through hybrid bodies. Case studies of wild children, the phonocene, contemporary artistic practices, and different cultural and popular subgenres of identity and sexuality will provide a horizontal and fertile platform to discuss and learn from each other. Session III - May 31st Film Screening Metamorphosis is a 4-stage film by the Institute of Queer Ecology, modeled after the life cycles of holometabolous insects: bugs who undergo a “complete metamorphosis” where the organism fully restructures itself to adapt to its changing needs and ensure its survival. Relying on this metaphorical transformation, IQECO aims to help catalyze a planet-wide transformation from the prevailing extractive relationship with the earth to one characterized by regeneration and care. Session IV - June 7th Graham Bell Tornado Graham will talk about their long term engagement with queer ecology focusing on the How to Heal cycle of participatory rituals, which invoke the spirits of extinct species to bring about transformation in our society and on more recent works which question the concepts of nation, territory and colonialism. Their recent P.I.N.Q. (Post Industrial Natural Queer) Park ceremony was carried out on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands from where Columbus set sail on his voyage of “discovery” of the new world. Session V - June 14th Mary Maggic How do bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender politics and environmental toxicity, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen,” the underlying premise that hormonal molecules are ubiquitously all around us - available for us to hack, mutate, and become-with. Through this process of unboxing their molecular mystique, we see that even in our toxic sea of industrial molecules, it is still a sublime sea of co-mattering. Session VI - June 21st Noam Youngrak Son The workshop series ‘Chimera Gastronomy’ was developed by the Belgium-based queer communication designer Noam Youngrak Son supported by the Institute of Queer Ecology. In the workshop, the participants contributed to a collaborative process to turn edible ingredients from daily grocery stores into an imaginative hybrid creature. In the session, Noam will share their thoughts about the aftermath of the workshop, about how context-dependent the workshop is, and what the practice that involves edible matters should orientate in the era of heightened global insecurity of food influenced by the pandemic, climate change and the war. Session VII - June 28th Houston R. Cypress Houston R. Cypress grew up in the swamps of the Florida Everglades, blazing trails through the bush. The endangered beauty of the natural environment made such an impression on him during his childhood – being a refuge for his ancestors and the source of traditional plant medicines – that he grew to find ways to articulate strategies for preserving this World Heritage Site. Through his organization, Love the Everglades Movement, Cypress has become a major force within Miccosukee society as an advocate for cultural preservation, environmental protection, business development, and sovereignty. Speaker Bios: Graham Bell Tornado Graham Bell Tornado, PhD in Art Production and Investigation, is a transgender artist whose text-based practice combines performance, video, music, photography and graphic art, drawing parallels between biological and political organisation. Queer and feminist politics, collaborative processes and an aesthetic that combines punk, baroque and contemporary elements inform works which celebrate a sense of wonder at the incredible range of sexual, biological and cultural diversity and denounce the systems of oppression, domination and control which threaten that diversity. Mary Maggic Mary Maggic (b. Los Angeles, '91) is a nonbinary artist working at the intersection of hormones, body and gender politics, and ecological alienations. Maggic frequently uses “biohacking” as a xeno-feminist practice of care that holds the potential to demystify invisible systems of molecular biopower. Completing their Masters in the Design Fiction group at MIT Media Lab, Maggic is a current member of the global network Hackteria - Open Source Biological Art, the tactical theater collective Aliens in Green, the Asian feminist group Mai Ling Vienna, as well as a contributor to the radical syllabus project Pirate Care and to the online Cyberfeminism Index. Noam Youngrak Son Designer based in Ghent and Eindhoven. They inscribe myths for the underrepresented in various mediums, from books to performances to 3D printed sex toys. They are excited about the unexpectedness that a well-designed fiction can open up, and critical political discussions that it may cultivate. They use their capability as a designer to visualize and materialize the setup for the technological &amp; ecological bodies in their fiction to play roles in. Their identity as a queer person of color is one of the crucial axes of their design practices. Houston R. Cypress Reverend Houston R. Cypress is a two-spirit poet, artist, activist, and ordained minister from the Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. He resides on the Miccosukee Reservation located west of Miami, Florida; and he maintains a number of traditional villages located on tree islands scattered throughout Water Conservation Area 3A — the area known as the historic River of Grass, and called by his community: KAAHAYATLE, which can be translated as “Shimmering Waters.” Organizers: Institute of Queer Ecology IQECO is a collaborative organism that supports the necessary transition away from extractive, exploitative systems towards mutually symbiotic living. IQECO builds on the theoretical framework of Queer Ecology, an adaptive practice concerned with interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. Institute for Postnatural Studies IPS is a center for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation. Founded in 2020, it is conceived as a networked place that brings together artists and researchers concerned with the issues of the global ecological crisis. https://queerecology.org/The-Symbiotic-Shore Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:15:01 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/The-Symbiotic-Shore <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b93bc9632765ec564f6ed53d9c37681168f82fd16547d705fef60359780a96c2/TSS_01_web.jpg" data-mid="127708185" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b93bc9632765ec564f6ed53d9c37681168f82fd16547d705fef60359780a96c2/TSS_01_web.jpg" /> The Symbiotic Shore Nov 27th 2021 - Feb 11th, 2022 Bas Fisher Invitational644 Collins AveMiami Beach, FL, 33139Open Hours:11pm-6pmThursday + Friday(and by appointment) Molly AdamsTrevor BashawEvander BatsonParker BrightAndres ChangAllyson ChurchNicolas BairdLee PivnikFrancisco CorderoTiger DingsunLuba DrozdCharlie Ehrenfried Casey HalterTristan HiggenbothamWilson KeithlineDeirdre KeoughDavid KimAidan Alexis KochShannon LeeJolie NgoFaris Al-ShathirJake SillenYannik Stevens Summer Jade LeavittGermán Enrique Caceres CuetoLibbi PonceArchival FeedbackLaurencia StraussRian HammondTJ ShinUtē Josephine PetitSasha Wortzel <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1ccda9b2c68dfebf1c80e50a6b6df48fe2944b2fe597d5e7a501c1e41199e57/TSS_06_web.jpg" data-mid="127708190" border="0" data-scale="93" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1ccda9b2c68dfebf1c80e50a6b6df48fe2944b2fe597d5e7a501c1e41199e57/TSS_06_web.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2565381b247dc12dc2240b239a383a9df2e26dcb458ebcce296dc3090e15de15/TSS_03_web.jpg" data-mid="127708187" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2565381b247dc12dc2240b239a383a9df2e26dcb458ebcce296dc3090e15de15/TSS_03_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/058825609a0ab029480c883d42384957580b725b87dc377c4556a9e6d10a9452/TSS_04_web.jpg" data-mid="127708188" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/058825609a0ab029480c883d42384957580b725b87dc377c4556a9e6d10a9452/TSS_04_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aee8b04bb9cbebdf30a2c003f604a906ed0d8c0f15fee6179cd4ba76b6095381/TSS_05_web.jpg" data-mid="127708189" border="0" alt="Rootpicker (2021), Rian Ciela Hammond. Single channel digital video, color, sound 8:05 min, looped. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Rootpicker (2021), Rian Ciela Hammond. Single channel digital video, color, sound 8:05 min, looped. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aee8b04bb9cbebdf30a2c003f604a906ed0d8c0f15fee6179cd4ba76b6095381/TSS_05_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/435d767fbced6c71d67f1669200da62cac5d39ee4f9a2ff424a4fefeaa4c6cab/TSS_07_web.jpg" data-mid="127708192" border="0" alt="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/435d767fbced6c71d67f1669200da62cac5d39ee4f9a2ff424a4fefeaa4c6cab/TSS_07_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2944" width_o="2000" height_o="2944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14e041ad105e33d07d84a31a0b5a6ea0f770085901690c167ce55f9cd33808ba/TSS_10_web.jpg" data-mid="127708196" border="0" alt="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14e041ad105e33d07d84a31a0b5a6ea0f770085901690c167ce55f9cd33808ba/TSS_10_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e50e1eadd0c343e0531287e28c872a212843eca56d47d8ffdfacd00b19cd89e3/TSS_09_web.jpg" data-mid="127708195" border="0" alt="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e50e1eadd0c343e0531287e28c872a212843eca56d47d8ffdfacd00b19cd89e3/TSS_09_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/434bde507e2c4abb3b921c0b0e89c6808a8b562dfe98e85af605fc0b9dffa79f/TSS_08_web.jpg" data-mid="127708193" border="0" alt="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="On Compost: Land Art (ongoing), Laurencia Strauss. Newspaper, worms, produce, bins, photographs. 9 compost fields, each: 19 1/2 x 30 x 7 1/2 in (49.5 x 76.2 x 19 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/434bde507e2c4abb3b921c0b0e89c6808a8b562dfe98e85af605fc0b9dffa79f/TSS_08_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/823a4343caa04df5131ce24579cbde33a1be87b586b89db9d1d2c64d85d38b5a/TSS_11_web.jpg" data-mid="127708197" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/823a4343caa04df5131ce24579cbde33a1be87b586b89db9d1d2c64d85d38b5a/TSS_11_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18193743451e0b9d55f7ae5cbfd305b6745bd0548ea527a069c468f428b5770d/TSS_12_web.jpg" data-mid="127708198" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18193743451e0b9d55f7ae5cbfd305b6745bd0548ea527a069c468f428b5770d/TSS_12_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6acf5e9a195f55188bfb70d6f7f81433470c6e5cc897ed714c83007f8805c051/TSS_14_web.jpg" data-mid="127708200" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6acf5e9a195f55188bfb70d6f7f81433470c6e5cc897ed714c83007f8805c051/TSS_14_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67a8ebf84e52b995c69b4c7b1f020535a73c9bead7a6ea7a2a0c9478c6d24154/TSS_13_web.jpg" data-mid="127708199" border="0" data-scale="71" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67a8ebf84e52b995c69b4c7b1f020535a73c9bead7a6ea7a2a0c9478c6d24154/TSS_13_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/501483fdec9a3c1ed88b14772939f8aafb84ced1399f938133ad27e4aaf85d4d/TSS_15_web.jpg" data-mid="127708201" border="0" alt="Institute of Queer Ecology Jumpsuits (2017), Felix Beaudry and Lee Pivnik for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 3 suits (S, M, L), dyed cotton and polyester blend, machine embroidered patches. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Institute of Queer Ecology Jumpsuits (2017), Felix Beaudry and Lee Pivnik for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 3 suits (S, M, L), dyed cotton and polyester blend, machine embroidered patches. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/501483fdec9a3c1ed88b14772939f8aafb84ced1399f938133ad27e4aaf85d4d/TSS_15_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a3a9f952ccdf1c9e08dfbb55eae9ecee6293dd61cfbe9792755cf04eae4eed2/TSS_16_web.jpg" data-mid="127708203" border="0" alt="Vine Spirit (Three Hearts) (2021), Germ&aacute;n Enrique Caceres Cueto. Acrylic on canvas with artist frame. 18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Vine Spirit (Three Hearts) (2021), Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto. Acrylic on canvas with artist frame. 18 x 22 in (45.7 x 55.9 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a3a9f952ccdf1c9e08dfbb55eae9ecee6293dd61cfbe9792755cf04eae4eed2/TSS_16_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c1321192f3d4caa4e0adb3ee456e1081827e469d12e58b197d08ca7b15995c8/TSS_17_web.jpg" data-mid="127708204" border="0" alt="Unforgivable, Unforgettable (2021), Germ&aacute;n Enrique Caceres Cueto. Acrylic on canvas with artist frame. 10 x 12 in (25.4 x 30.5 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Unforgivable, Unforgettable (2021), Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto. Acrylic on canvas with artist frame. 10 x 12 in (25.4 x 30.5 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c1321192f3d4caa4e0adb3ee456e1081827e469d12e58b197d08ca7b15995c8/TSS_17_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af1da3d533acb30e45e7ed2b21dd9a2326c51b1995d61fbcdff3023beda7b04c/TSS_18_web.jpg" data-mid="127708205" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af1da3d533acb30e45e7ed2b21dd9a2326c51b1995d61fbcdff3023beda7b04c/TSS_18_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/246927d5bd072412c43e167993aa43d589e661c8a2275625060391231c93b17a/TSS_19_web.jpg" data-mid="127708206" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/246927d5bd072412c43e167993aa43d589e661c8a2275625060391231c93b17a/TSS_19_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1906cab897b0520a02c37afff2004654c2eeae020d2e3f6b4ace04586a1f656f/TSS_20_web.jpg" data-mid="127708207" border="0" alt="Cash Magic (2021), Utē Josephine Petit. 4 Framed Drawings, Flags, Found Saris, Glassware, Chair, Wood Fencing, Buoys, Casino Star, Iroquois White Corn, Tony Chacheries, Peach Nehi, Found Jewelry, Window Slats, Fishing rope , Watering can, broken auto glass. Dimensions variable. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Cash Magic (2021), Utē Josephine Petit. 4 Framed Drawings, Flags, Found Saris, Glassware, Chair, Wood Fencing, Buoys, Casino Star, Iroquois White Corn, Tony Chacheries, Peach Nehi, Found Jewelry, Window Slats, Fishing rope , Watering can, broken auto glass. Dimensions variable. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1906cab897b0520a02c37afff2004654c2eeae020d2e3f6b4ace04586a1f656f/TSS_20_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f4c1013bedb7760a3a6d99d2f057fe909c8aaf28e575b2ea420c6659dab903c/TSS_21_web.jpg" data-mid="127708209" border="0" alt="Cash Magic (2021), Utē Josephine Petit. Altar installation with 4 Framed Drawings: Sharp woman whose scimitar carved stars in the sky (2020) Revenge Fantasy in the Mouth of my Motherland (2020) Faggots Shooting Back (2020) Ailantha (2020) Each drawing is Pencil on Paper. 8.5 x 11 in (22 x 28 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Cash Magic (2021), Utē Josephine Petit. Altar installation with 4 Framed Drawings: Sharp woman whose scimitar carved stars in the sky (2020) Revenge Fantasy in the Mouth of my Motherland (2020) Faggots Shooting Back (2020) Ailantha (2020) Each drawing is Pencil on Paper. 8.5 x 11 in (22 x 28 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f4c1013bedb7760a3a6d99d2f057fe909c8aaf28e575b2ea420c6659dab903c/TSS_21_web.jpg" /> <img width="2417" height="2000" width_o="2417" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4551cee3abc4480a16069b449327f22983957aac6bc4c8542669e12faa6c28ef/TSS_22_web.jpg" data-mid="127708210" border="0" alt="Revenge Fantasy in the Mouth of my Motherland (2020), Utē Josephine Petit. Pencil on Paper. 8.5 x 11 in (22 x 28 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Revenge Fantasy in the Mouth of my Motherland (2020), Utē Josephine Petit. Pencil on Paper. 8.5 x 11 in (22 x 28 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4551cee3abc4480a16069b449327f22983957aac6bc4c8542669e12faa6c28ef/TSS_22_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81312164978771bbd68b1285e8d70d8b9b267d7845d8c5e7245ade8651a36d5c/TSS_23_web.jpg" data-mid="127708211" border="0" alt="Theresa (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, grout, gesso, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, cubic zirconia necklace, glass blocks, pigment, iridescent tile, and garage tile. 72 x 72 x 56 in (182.9 x 182.9 x 142.2 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Theresa (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, grout, gesso, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, cubic zirconia necklace, glass blocks, pigment, iridescent tile, and garage tile. 72 x 72 x 56 in (182.9 x 182.9 x 142.2 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81312164978771bbd68b1285e8d70d8b9b267d7845d8c5e7245ade8651a36d5c/TSS_23_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2704c99050cb3fb9caebf1abe1cffa7e607c4b1c4af7678ee7f58dce502cf8c/TSS_25_web.jpg" data-mid="127708213" border="0" alt="Byron (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, gesso, grout, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, binder ring, matte spray paint, resin, opal, black opal, pigment, and garage tile. 36 x 48 x 50 in (91.4 x 121.9 x 127 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Byron (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, gesso, grout, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, binder ring, matte spray paint, resin, opal, black opal, pigment, and garage tile. 36 x 48 x 50 in (91.4 x 121.9 x 127 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2704c99050cb3fb9caebf1abe1cffa7e607c4b1c4af7678ee7f58dce502cf8c/TSS_25_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/992e14b47b35f72d6eb9b72f27866c8b3cbfc171a603b34368fc3f0e0eb04675/TSS_24_web.jpg" data-mid="127708212" border="0" alt="Byron (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, gesso, grout, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, binder ring, matte spray paint, resin, opal, black opal, pigment, and garage tile. 36 x 48 x 50 in (91.4 x 121.9 x 127 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Byron (2020), Libbi Ponce. Extruded polystyrene, urethane rigid pour foam, joint compound, bondo, gesso, grout, ink, jb minute weld, gorilla super glue, acrylic, styrofoam, jade, quartz, earrings, binder ring, matte spray paint, resin, opal, black opal, pigment, and garage tile. 36 x 48 x 50 in (91.4 x 121.9 x 127 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/992e14b47b35f72d6eb9b72f27866c8b3cbfc171a603b34368fc3f0e0eb04675/TSS_24_web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59a2298467d2e40b58389e2341ceccd44f321d90b15d773a87dd8e62f06cb4c2/TSS_26_web.jpg" data-mid="127708214" border="0" alt="The Seventh Sun Comes (2021), Summer Jade Leavitt. Green carnation, Yahrzeit candle, 33 year medallion, torched cent, snail shell, last dew drops. 8 x 8 x 28 in (20.3 x 20.3 x 71 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Seventh Sun Comes (2021), Summer Jade Leavitt. Green carnation, Yahrzeit candle, 33 year medallion, torched cent, snail shell, last dew drops. 8 x 8 x 28 in (20.3 x 20.3 x 71 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59a2298467d2e40b58389e2341ceccd44f321d90b15d773a87dd8e62f06cb4c2/TSS_26_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a07b180e2ecddbbe7712354905731b3deb93cc467ff2b79471f886c202a790d/TSS_27_WEB.jpg" data-mid="127708215" border="0" alt="The Seventh Sun Comes (2021), Summer Jade Leavitt. Green carnation, Yahrzeit candle, 33 year medallion, torched cent, snail shell, last dew drops. 8 x 8 x 28 in (20.3 x 20.3 x 71 cm). Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Seventh Sun Comes (2021), Summer Jade Leavitt. Green carnation, Yahrzeit candle, 33 year medallion, torched cent, snail shell, last dew drops. 8 x 8 x 28 in (20.3 x 20.3 x 71 cm). Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a07b180e2ecddbbe7712354905731b3deb93cc467ff2b79471f886c202a790d/TSS_27_WEB.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e9ec902c489ed40fe1a728d7c9cc7aa2fa40c5629be693fe515ab2477594313/TSS_28_web.jpg" data-mid="127708216" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e9ec902c489ed40fe1a728d7c9cc7aa2fa40c5629be693fe515ab2477594313/TSS_28_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e49a0d505feaa3859e8e53923f8fade38ac3deaa1f8aca93e53bd0626f22604/TSS_29_web.jpg" data-mid="127708217" border="0" alt="(Left) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunrise) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent, 1:01 min, looped. (Right) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunset) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent , 5:21 min, looped. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="(Left) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunrise) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent, 1:01 min, looped. (Right) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunset) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent , 5:21 min, looped. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e49a0d505feaa3859e8e53923f8fade38ac3deaa1f8aca93e53bd0626f22604/TSS_29_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6f8d339094ada44e0e5450db086d810b2531294ff8004cfc7dab4c9c9efb00f/TSS_30_web.jpg" data-mid="127708218" border="0" alt=" (Left) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunset) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent, 5:21 min, looped. (Right) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunrise) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent , 1:01 min, looped. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption=" (Left) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunset) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent, 5:21 min, looped. (Right) For those of us who live at the shoreline (sunrise) (2020), Sasha Wortzel. Video, color, silent , 1:01 min, looped. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6f8d339094ada44e0e5450db086d810b2531294ff8004cfc7dab4c9c9efb00f/TSS_30_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99cf9056f4f451964ed5df7c8a586cb84a98295373a842fceebddb9d42eba408/TSS_31_web.jpg" data-mid="127708219" border="0" alt="Animated Waters (2021), TJ Shin. Multi-media installation: saliva, pacific ocean, centrifuge. Dimensions variable. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Animated Waters (2021), TJ Shin. Multi-media installation: saliva, pacific ocean, centrifuge. Dimensions variable. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99cf9056f4f451964ed5df7c8a586cb84a98295373a842fceebddb9d42eba408/TSS_31_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b981137b41bc974137cde9ca1de96d9284205bd2157f0860c316fdd5c80c994c/TSS_32_web.jpg" data-mid="127708222" border="0" alt="Animated Waters (2021), TJ Shin. Multi-media installation: saliva, pacific ocean, centrifuge. Dimensions variable. Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Animated Waters (2021), TJ Shin. Multi-media installation: saliva, pacific ocean, centrifuge. Dimensions variable. Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b981137b41bc974137cde9ca1de96d9284205bd2157f0860c316fdd5c80c994c/TSS_32_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/377b22f7cb35775ea9353e7496d2e4699c06619203c41487de7780a46b288fcb/TSS_35_web.jpg" data-mid="127708225" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/377b22f7cb35775ea9353e7496d2e4699c06619203c41487de7780a46b288fcb/TSS_35_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c7287d7067e335902ca129f2ec8ff66760631dfee69d9f104aca7f628d92880/TSS_34_web.jpg" data-mid="127708224" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c7287d7067e335902ca129f2ec8ff66760631dfee69d9f104aca7f628d92880/TSS_34_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d32932dc0e3640941f27e2262372302eb0be9eb6f3d2c206d5913fa04a2f88b9/TSS_33_web.jpg" data-mid="127708223" border="0" alt="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="The Symbiotic Shore: Excerpts from IQECO Fire Island Image Archive (2019), Various Artists for the Institute of Queer Ecology. 44 towels, each 33 x 57 in (83.82 x 144.8 cm) Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Lee Pivnik. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d32932dc0e3640941f27e2262372302eb0be9eb6f3d2c206d5913fa04a2f88b9/TSS_33_web.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d4f84856810a64c693591c3707ff6ee5734a0216ff945539c00b11542891f55/TSS_36_web.jpg" data-mid="127708226" border="0" alt="Installation view of &ldquo;The Symbiotic Shore&rdquo; a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." data-caption="Installation view of “The Symbiotic Shore” a group exhibition curated by the Institute of Queer Ecology (2021). Photo by Monica McGivern. Courtesy of the Institute of Queer Ecology, Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d4f84856810a64c693591c3707ff6ee5734a0216ff945539c00b11542891f55/TSS_36_web.jpg" /> Coastal cities around the globe are currently engaged in conversations about how to fortify themselves against the climate-perils of tomorrow. Local governments often frame these conversations in terms of the preservation of real estate assets and local economies above water so that “business as usual” can continue. These plans, which are made from the top down, without addressing the root causes of climate-change and habitat degradation, leave behind countless people and species. The notion that competition breeds evolution has spread from social Darwinism and taken root in a socioeconomic worldview that has naturalized the global exploitation and unsustainable extraction of labor and resources. In Miami and beyond, it’s critical not only to build resilience against climate change, but to cultivate a regenerative ethos.For their upcoming Waterproof Miami project with Bas Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative, the Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) will present an exhibition that proposes evolving Miami into a “Symbiotic City:” a civic strategy for environmental harm reduction and climate adaptation. The ongoing project of saving this world requires constantly remaking it, re-grounding the work in mutualistic symbioses rather than individualistic competition.Here, standing on The Symbiotic Shore, IQECO advocates for a new empathic paradigm: to understand other species (and ourselves) through alternative survival strategies of symbiosis, mutualism, and interdependence. Right now, around and inside us, our bodies bloom with 40 trillion+ bacterial cells—we are more bacterial than human. We have evolved to live in symbiosis with our microbiomes over millions of years—we are walking multispecies amalgamations, interdependent on each other and our environments for mutual support. In Miami, we walk through a city built of coral, an animal that survives only in a mutualistic relationship with photosynthetic algae. Yet, we plan, build, and act in resistance to this vibrant and complex living world around us. We sterilize everything we touch.To begin imagining this ecozoic shift—away from competition, towards mutualism—this exhibition brings together artists living in Miami and other coastal cities: the liminal, romantic, real edges of the sea and shore, increasingly defined by their environmental precarity. Memories, dreams, and experiences materialize into visions of a future where coastal cities don’t fortify themselves against a rapidly changing world, but change themselves to meet the moment’s needs. The show—the shore—is sincere and tactile. From an altar constructed of hurricane debris collected along the Gulf Coast, an audio composition that gives voice to the worsening water conditions in Biscayne Bay, and a photo archive transmuted onto beach towels documenting a formative IQECO residency in the queer towns of the Fire Island National Seashore, the exhibition traces a line from New Orleans, down Florida, and up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing together artists concerned with the future changes faced by the places they live and love.Alternative, queer readings of evolutionary biology and ecology can inform and re-form how we see ourselves as a species, particularly regarding the mutual benefits that cooperation brings to the interconnected social infrastructures of all species. The Institute of Queer Ecology plots a new trajectory forward, one where we transform our one-sided, parasitic relationships with the environment into networks of symbiosis and mutualism, regeneration and care—as a city, a society, and a species. https://queerecology.org/Chimera-Gastronomy-Malleable-flesh-amalgamated-bodies-and-plastic Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:46:19 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/Chimera-Gastronomy-Malleable-flesh-amalgamated-bodies-and-plastic <img width="3840" height="2494" width_o="3840" height_o="2494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cfdd1902a6c67fd2a2f98f610a9abdccf6ccecdcacb5d08ddf7fecc1b6a3ded/final-2.jpg" data-mid="121398451" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cfdd1902a6c67fd2a2f98f610a9abdccf6ccecdcacb5d08ddf7fecc1b6a3ded/final-2.jpg" /> <img width="5314" height="3543" width_o="5314" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe7fc7f3e113f820c235a4a6ff52745528717c6733db6584c223badc87758e0f/final-4.jpg" data-mid="121398463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe7fc7f3e113f820c235a4a6ff52745528717c6733db6584c223badc87758e0f/final-4.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d34b539607299c3fd581ef7e497b1e234ec4d915e1a339a8a1ddffdda916b544/final-1.jpg" data-mid="121398466" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d34b539607299c3fd581ef7e497b1e234ec4d915e1a339a8a1ddffdda916b544/final-1.jpg" /> RE_NATURE WORKSHOP / Chimera Gastronomy: Malleable flesh, amalgamated bodies, and plastic kinship Venue:Willem Twee Boschdijkstraat 100, 's-Hertogenbosch Workshop Fee:Adult: € 8Student / LBGTQ+: € 4 October 24th, 2021&nbsp; Noam Youngrak Son for the Institute of Queer Ecology The Institute of Queer Ecology is excited to be participating in RE_NATURE, a festival for art and nature in Den Bosch taking place from October 8th-October 31st. Our film series, Metamorphosis, commissioned by DIS, is screening as part of the exhibition program, and we’re thrilled to present a workshop by Noam Youngrak Son. With the support of the IQECO, Noam Youngrak Son has developed the workshop “Chimera Gastronomy: Malleable flesh, amalgamated bodies, and plastic kinship” as part of the program for RE_NATURE. In the workshop, a group works individually and collectively on a large malleable body consisting of dough. During the kneading, identities, gender and notions surrounding ethics are discussed and reflected. The co-created edible sculpture is thus a translation of our collective and personal struggles, interspecies discoveries and political feelings around bodies in this society. According to Son, this result will be a so-called Chimera: a living being that arises from cell mixing. During the workshop the participants hybridized eel, dodo, octopus, lichen, whale, nekton, cat into a chimera. The flesh, materialized using edible ingredients, comprehensively represented the following political-cultural-ecological discussions: endocrinological condition shaped by migration, extinction caused by colonialism, fluctuating chromatophores blurring the notion of race, symbiotic cohabitation, the polarization of scales. By using this variety of flesh, we speculatively constructed organs that tell stories: An anus not for defecation but for olfactory communication, a selfish heart that only pumps blood for itself, non-binary genitals, an ear that hears sufferings, an organ that consumes pain and excretes joy. After the completion of the workshop, the body parts were combined into a fictional creature, 3D scanned and digitally animated. Noam Youngrak Son is a designer based in Ghent and Eindhoven. They inscribe myths for the underrepresented in various mediums, from books to performances to 3D printed sex toys. They are excited about the unexpectedness that a well-designed fiction can open up, and critical political discussions that it may cultivate. They use their capability as a designer to visualize and materialize the setup for the technological &amp; ecological bodies in their fiction to play roles in. Noam’s identity as a queer person of color is one of the axes of their design practices. RE_NATURE is organized by Future of Work (FOW) , a foundation that seeks the connection between creative imaginations of future innovations and the (professional) practice of the day after tomorrow. https://queerecology.org/H-O-R-I-Z-O-N Thu, 14 Jan 2021 08:36:59 +0000 IQECO https://queerecology.org/H-O-R-I-Z-O-N H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.(Habitat One: Regenerative Interactive Zone of Nurture)A downloadable, participatory artwork taking the form of a social simulation game, produced by the Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO) for the Guggenheim Museum. DOWNLOAD VIA GUGGENHEIM.ORG DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS <img width="1920" height="1200" width_o="1920" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a4be7de2b409e1bd9d1eb0bb6fa83074a440e9840e923f00b41ee280de8a939/HORIZON14web.png" data-mid="95041098" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a4be7de2b409e1bd9d1eb0bb6fa83074a440e9840e923f00b41ee280de8a939/HORIZON14web.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fba4947366ee4d371c0a82180f5a389e277dc768787726f6fce20181bdf7fab8/HORIZON11web.png" data-mid="95041095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fba4947366ee4d371c0a82180f5a389e277dc768787726f6fce20181bdf7fab8/HORIZON11web.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/520ace25aa269c427774c3ff3b63b52ffb11cd212235a17a9b4dd3cb26e568e1/HORIZON12web.png" data-mid="95041097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/520ace25aa269c427774c3ff3b63b52ffb11cd212235a17a9b4dd3cb26e568e1/HORIZON12web.png" /><img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0165bfd6745b58019c0ce995ca79b429b0b559cfafeea559fbcc20588200e67/HORIZON3.png" data-mid="95041165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0165bfd6745b58019c0ce995ca79b429b0b559cfafeea559fbcc20588200e67/HORIZON3.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14c5fd599c9155426a77aa3e968b404363c9836a5aa730e22060f329e904d83f/HORIZON9.png" data-mid="95041127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14c5fd599c9155426a77aa3e968b404363c9836a5aa730e22060f329e904d83f/HORIZON9.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c0e959762e5ba42eb4c207f539454f2f1c13667d71784d696e252208a4a99dd/HORIZON8.png" data-mid="95041126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c0e959762e5ba42eb4c207f539454f2f1c13667d71784d696e252208a4a99dd/HORIZON8.png" /><img width="2560" height="1600" width_o="2560" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ecc6842fef30732c00fa8ea5ac133aa8d5f2474dbec5e74d7127b4621b4c92b/HORIZON2.png" data-mid="95041123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ecc6842fef30732c00fa8ea5ac133aa8d5f2474dbec5e74d7127b4621b4c92b/HORIZON2.png" /><img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7120762a113b114b6ca439b6ffb6f34cd6797b813b3c7e5e307098deb62739c/HORIZON.png" data-mid="95041122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7120762a113b114b6ca439b6ffb6f34cd6797b813b3c7e5e307098deb62739c/HORIZON.png" /> ! Greetings, and welcome to Habitat One: Regenerative Interconnected Zone of Nurture, also known as HORIZON. If you have found your way here, you are exactly where you are meant to be. Welcome home. My name is LAVNDR.73 and I have been programmed to assist you in getting settled. Since you’re new to HORIZON, you may find it helpful to learn a bit about our community’s founding. The twilight of what we now call the Capitalocene was a turbulent period for all of Earth’s inhabitants. For centuries, powerful humans exploited a perversion of Cartesian duality to establish a binary worldview and rationalize their superiority over all other planetary kin, including segments of their own species. Over time, this complex evolved into a global order dependent on the extraction of Earth’s resources to serve the biological and political needs of human kind. As with any tectonic shift, quakes, collisions, and eruptions were inevitable. The labor needed to extract and process the planet’s natural resources demanded an ever-growing human population, which in turn required more resources. These resources, as you are likely aware, were limited and uneven in distribution. The world’s many nations, whose own bodies politic were violently fractured, waged war on one another and ecological disaster ensued. For a time, the powerful were able to justify these inconveniences with marvelous inventions and profound advancements in science, technology, and architecture. Pragmatists attempted to use these developments to remedy some the most urgent challenges; they built satellites to monitor the changing climate (and surveille their enemies), robotic pollinators to replace insects facing immanent extinction, and UV light pods to grow produce in increasingly unfavorable conditions. Indeed, the code that quantifies my very own existence as an artificial intelligence was developed during this period. Nevertheless, the forests continued to burn, the oceans continued to rise, the air became more toxic, and the water increasingly impotable. Various animals were forced to flee their natural habitats in search of more favorable conditions. This combined with practices of agricultural cultivation of livestock for food resulted in animals and humans encountering each other in manners unprecedented. In year 2019 AD, a bat had one such encounter with a pangolin near location 30.5928° N latitude, 114.3055° E longitude. The bodies of both species served as hosts for distinct yet similar viruses which, upon their meeting, combined and mutated into a novel coronavirus with the capacity to infect the human body.&nbsp; The zoonotic virus known as SARS-CoV-2 manifested as a fever, dry cough, pneumonia, and in some cases death. Fatality was particularly prevalent among the most vulnerable populations and the disease had the perfect combination of symptomatic subtlety and extended incubation period to maximize its R0 value. The project of Globalization had ensured a relative ease of international travel, trade, and communication. A general culture of individualism was prevalent throughout much of the industrialized world and the systems in place demanded that the humans maintain employment to live. Political leaders, in concert with media outlets, had spent decades undermining public trust in science and information. These factors combined made control of the disease nearly impossible, and it spread like wildfire across the globe. The result was an international lockdown, with governments encouraging citizens to stay in their homes, isolated for the majority of year 2020 AD. The world economy came to a halt and the planet, even if just for a brief moment, began to heal. But being an extremely social species by nature, this circumstance left many of the humans lonely, depressed, and desperate for connection. It was in this moment that a network of empathic artists, scientists, curators, and writers known as the Institute of Queer Ecology, IQECO for short, imagined the dawn of a new era. The Institute recognized that effective change to save the Earth would be fractal, adaptive, interdependent, decentralized, non-linear, iterative, resilient, and aimed toward transformative justice with the goal of creating more possibilities. They began their work with the creation of a manifesto. Disguised as an edutainment video series, the manifesto titled Metamorphosis employed the life stages of holometabolous insects as a metaphor for IQECO’s proposal to radically restructure the human relationship with the environment. It was disseminated via the internet and centered queerness as “the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality…an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future.” Metamorphosis would serve as a founding document for HORIZON, a prototype for the kind of world that once seemed impossible. Ours is a community formed through sym-poiesis, where science and speculation, fact and fable comingle in profound and productive ways. Upon entering your new home, you will receive a uniform of an orchid jumpsuit. After registering as a resident, your face shall be obscured and your identity will remain anonymous, unless you wish to reveal your name. The rules are simple. You must remain respectful of HORIZON and its&nbsp; other inhabitants at all times. So long as this rule is complied with, we encourage you to befriend and fall in love with your fellow inhabitants. You will notice that there are various locations within HORIZON that house information germane to their function within the community. You may access this information freely, and if you have something relevant to share, please do so in the space that feels most appropriate. Women Wisdom has it that “the more you share, the less you need… the more that goes around the more you get back.” We hope that you take what you need, and give what you can. Finally, there is a stage within the commune that will serve as a venue for live events in the near future. I recommend that you pay close attention to communications from our founders to learn more about these happenings. Now that your orientation briefing is complete, I am pleased to acknowledge that you have arrived at HORIZOOOOOOOoooooooo0oo00000….. [System Error 20.12.21: a horizon by definition, being a point in the distance, is always determined in contrast to one’s current location and is therefore not a destination where one can physically arrive] References: Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chuthulcene Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. Game Developer: Matthew Cormack 3D Modeller / Sound Designer: Valerie Caputo Concept &amp; Production Team: Nicolas Baird Raphaëlle Cormier Ceci Moss Lee Pivnik Jake Sillen Soundtrack: Mechatok WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUR FRIENDSAT THE GUGGENHEIM Alan SeiseLaili AmighiJennifer Yee Troy Conrad TherrienAshley Mendelsohn Materials uploaded to H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. will be archived by the Institute of Queer Ecology for the duration of the project. If you would like to remove something you uploaded, please email us at info@queerecology.org. IQECO reserves the right to present documentation of projects uploaded into H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. on it’s website and social media platforms, but holds no kind of ownership of works uploaded into the program. H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. was commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a form of public programming for Countryside, The Future. Additional funding for the Institute of Queer Ecology is provided by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.