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Plant Time: Textiles, Performance and Yearning
In this virtual talk, artist Liz Harvey will discuss her exhibition, the lost ones: iterations and murmurs, and her work that engages with stitching as a way to deal with the bittersweet, particularly around climate disruption during the Anthropocene– the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet. She’ll share how disorientation and embroidery come together as strategies to "queer" our relationship to nature. Using dance and textiles, her work often makes use of what she calls time-traveling to engage with overlooked stories as well as to envision futures centering liberation. the lost ones invited participants to embroider critically endangered flowers and plants on a garment worn by a performer in multiple outdoor performances in order to help viewers navigate yearning and melancholy.
the lost ones: iterations and murmurs is an exhibition centered on the artworks, artifacts, and ephemera behind creating the lost ones, a multi-year performance project by Bay Area artist Liz Harvey. For the lost ones performance project, Harvey worked with a range of collaborators, including choreographers Mary Armentrout, Cherie Hill, and Megan Nicely, as well as science editor Lauren Muscatine. The project featured myriad performers rotating through an embroidered performance garment on which participants were invited to stitch images of endangered plants in order to highlight overlooked species, untold feminist histories, and little-acknowledged art practices.
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