The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory
5th & 6th December 2020
Online at themind.fish
The Understory of the Understory is the fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species, part of the Serpentine’s General Ecology project. With The Understory of the Understory, we go to that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, the place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet.
Thandi Loewenson
A Taxonomy of Flight
This is an account of the failed search for the burial site of an astronaut and freedom fighter interred at Leopard’s Hill Cemetery, Lusaka, Zambia. It is an account of a fallen comrade, grounded in the line of flight by a pregnancy and a failed funding bid. It is an account of rocks holding court towards freedom, red soil mobilised to kick up life, of blown up bridges and of Broken Hills become collapsed mine shafts, blackened Earth and reservoirs of toxic life. It is an account of sons and daughters of the soil – openings dotted around the graveyard – who resisted to remain free and died in exile to be later exhumed and sent home to countries of which only dreams existed when they passed. This is an account of the movement of Earth.
Thandi Loewenson is an architectural designer/researcher who operates through design, fiction and performance to interrogate our perceived and lived realms and to speculate on the possible worlds in our midst. Mobilising the ‘weird’ and the ‘tender’, she engages in projects which provoke questioning of the status-quo, whilst working with communities, policy makers, artists and architects towards acting on those provocations. Loewenson is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, a Visiting Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture, a researcher with the Regional Network on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa (EQUINET) and a co-foundress of the architectural collective BREAK//LINE.
@ThandiLoewenson
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