“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Near Princeton?

The Secret Life of Plants, an interdisciplinary conversation about the present state of relations with the vegetable kingdom: with Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins), Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University), Maureen McLane (New York University), Natania Meeker (University of Southern California), Tim Morton (Rice University), Nils Norman (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), and Antonia Szabari (University of Southern California).

Exhibition and reception: Thursday, May 2, 5:00 PM, School of Architecture.

Symposium: Friday, May 3, 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM, Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture. The afternoon will be divided into the panels of two speakers each, under the following headings:

1:00 COHABITATION: with Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins) and Nils Norman (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)

2:30 KNOWING: with Maureen McLane (New York University) and Tim Morton (Rice University)

4:15 ANIMATION: with Laura Marks (Simon Fraser University), Natania Meeker (University of Southern California), and Antonia Szabari (University of Southern California)

5:30 Reception



1 comment:

Jozsef Kele said...

You know in Philadelphia there was an exhibition of generative plant musical performance which interacted with the audience.