If we are to survive the planetary-scale exhaustion that seems to be the inevitable ends of the logic of the Anthropocene, humans need to find different ways of thinking in order to develop different ways of living. Cecilia Casabona uses participatory performance methodologies to research ways of unlearning traditional logics of being human. How a Plant Comes to Plant is a film made in collaboration with a plant from Tanzania, given a Latin name by a German botanist, and now a mainstay in Dutch supermarkets. The film is a meditation on how contemporary humans have become illiterate to the agency of the natural world.

Graduation project

In Vena Verbum

Tiddo Bakker

“A plant is an apparently soulless object and is viewed as primarily decorative. I want to give the plant a voice,” proclaims Tiddo Bakker. And he does this with his interactive plant project In Vena Verbum. He designed a piece of jewellery that measures the activity of the plant with a tension meter. Bakker: “Imagine the plant is in the sun: then it is active. The diaphragm moves quickly and shows the bright light. When you, for example, touch the plant, the diaphragm closes briefly. This is how the life pulse of the plant is visualised.” He wants to help humans and nature get closer together again this way.

Department

Leisure

Degree

Bachelor

Graduation year

2011

Photoshoot

Joost Govers

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