which plants nuanced traced/sensory plants of system, 2022
Video, 7'37
It is a spring day at the Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil on the outskirts of Paris. Here a complex of ornate greenhouses were constructed in the final years of the 19th century, when science and nature were both clear, contained ideas. In this video we see a series of random images intended to capture whatever appeared in front of the camera's lens in and around the greenhouses. This pseudo-scientific visual documentation has been turned into a slideshow, where each image was given equal attention. The clinical approach results in a distant 'alien' perspective of the strange scenes that show people inspecting plants like unusual specimens.
A sort of robot David Attenborough narrates the scene. The only problem: the signifiers are all mixed. Words lose their meaning as they float around, freed from context, liberated from structure. In this no longer rational world who can say who is inspecting who, and who knows what? Knowledge is relative and only sensical if you prescribe to the system.
Video, 7'37
It is a spring day at the Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil on the outskirts of Paris. Here a complex of ornate greenhouses were constructed in the final years of the 19th century, when science and nature were both clear, contained ideas. In this video we see a series of random images intended to capture whatever appeared in front of the camera's lens in and around the greenhouses. This pseudo-scientific visual documentation has been turned into a slideshow, where each image was given equal attention. The clinical approach results in a distant 'alien' perspective of the strange scenes that show people inspecting plants like unusual specimens.
A sort of robot David Attenborough narrates the scene. The only problem: the signifiers are all mixed. Words lose their meaning as they float around, freed from context, liberated from structure. In this no longer rational world who can say who is inspecting who, and who knows what? Knowledge is relative and only sensical if you prescribe to the system.