Autolysis is a poetic and visceral exploration of issues around climate change, plant species adaptation/extinction, and personal mortality through a focus on/engagement with soil/dirt. Come immerse yourself in stories and scents unearthed from Boston’s past and present soil and imagine our future flora with conceptional artist Heather Kapplow and artist and game designer Walker Tufts!
Savage Confessions
Multi-sensory visual-soundscape
Artist and trained anthropologist Liu Wa & artist and composer Yang Bao create a multi-sensory and ever-evolving visual-soundscape through video, music and painting, seeking to heighten our sensuous receptivity to the more-than-human world. The work captures the artists' impression and imagination of the plants that they encountered on their journey to nuclear sites in the United States, the former Soviet Union and China during the Cold War. The intent of these works is not to anthropomorphize the plants, but to “vegetalize” our human perceptions and question the man-made boundaries amongst ourselves.
