VEGETAL EMPATHY: A Multisensory Exploration of Plant Intelligence

We're thrilled to announce thatVegetal Empathy, an installation and performance by sound artist Pheobe riley Law will be presented at Green Lens Studios from March 19th

VEGETAL EMPATHY is a durational installation with live elements by sound artist Pheobe Riley Law. The work presents a speculative simulation of the garden, exploring our entanglement with more than human entities through data, micro listening and acts of tending.  Recontextualising and collaborating with the microscopic realities of soil systems, plants, moss species and plant data, the installation engages ideas of radical care and ecological reciprocity. It proposes the garden as a site of co performance, where human and vegetal agencies intersect.  The piece includes filmed projections of plants frozen in water, the movement of aquatic insects and the artist’s hand, flexible and transforming. These gestures reflect on extraction, material transformation and the manipulation of plant DNA. The sonic environment incorporates voice, live automation mimicry and textural rhythmic material alongside live soil listening. Plants are hydrated and amplified through hydrophones and microphones, allowing audiences to hear the actual acoustic activity of plant and root systems rather than their digital sonification.  Through human and non human machine performers, the garden space becomes a collaborative choir.  On the opening night, Pheobe Riley Law will activate the installation through a standalone concert performance.  To request the full press release, please contact info@greenlenstudios.com

More about event https://www.greenlenstudios.com/cultural-projects/vegetal-empathy