Weeds in the Greenhouse: Curating Posthuman Engagements

Authors

• Nina Liebenberg University of the Arts, Helsinki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.145486

Keywords:

curatorship, plant science, interdisciplinary, posthuman, blind spots

Abstract

In an ode to Woolgar and Latour’s Laboratory life (1979), this visual essay traces what occurred during a series of fieldtrips and workshops I organised between students from Uniarts and Aalto University, and researchers at the Viikki Plant Sciences Centre, Helsinki. It highlights how disciplines promote a particular way of looking and of understanding the world that privileges certain of its characteristics over others – a process that can lead to the development of potential blind spots that hinder discovery. The curatorial is posited as a means for combating these limitations and for understanding plant-human relationships in an expanded way.