In this episode Sheena and Patrick look at SEF’s “green” projects to consider how plants and planting show us ways that science and everyday culture can productively intersect, and how plants are doing real work towards energy transition. Seed Time was a collaborative exhibition project presented in the SEF gallery show entitled Prototypes for Possible Worlds in 2019. With its video component, interactivity, and take-home seed packets, Seed Time challenges participants to think outside the box and “in the field.” The Carbon Catching Library was also showcased in the Prototypes exhibition, and offered visitors opportunities to check out a plant (that is, take one home), thereby doing real work towards imagining new carbon capture programs. Your hosts talk to five SEF members that created Seed Time and Carbon Catching Library – award-winning visual artist Soheila Esfahani (Western University), artist and self-proclaimed illegitimate historian Luke Johnson, Satoshi Ikeda (Concordia University) who works on, and with, research action projects and post corporate social economies, artist and professor Joan Greer (University of Alberta), and professor and director of the Intermedia Research Studio in the Department of Sociology at University of Alberta, Sourayan Mookerjea. Not able to join the team for the podcast is sculpture, installation, and video artist Tegan Moore from Seed Time. As always, use the project links above to our interactive resources to enjoy a visual and auditory encounter with the FluxKit as you listen.
S6E6 Reflector: Plants Matter
