Lost Species Day 2022: Queering Decay - Thinking-with Dead Wood
How might rot be a detonator of possibility? Join artist Becky Lyon / ELASTIC FICTION for an evening gathering thinking-with dead wood as a guide for co-flourishing in ruinous times and profound loss. We’ll use the processes of decay and decomposition associated with dead wood as conduit for queer/ying inherited concepts of life/death binaries; troubling the concept of “wasted” bodies and leaking out of the “self-made” individual amongst other fragments of wisdom.
For Lost Species Day 2022 we take a moment to honour an overlooked and biodiverse ecology whilst “staying with the trouble” and finding generative stories of renewal. This will be an interactive session with discussion. Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican artist and ‘artecologist’ exploring how art practice can re-body us back into the animate, vibrant, tangly messwork of our ecology. She is interested in ecology as an alternative curriculum or sourcebook for inhabiting the earth in ways that foster more co-flourishing and care and challenge the logic of "dominion" at the sour core of injustices (plural).
Time: 18:00 GMT
