Sector 2337 - Following Nonhuman Kinds: The Plant Symposium

Following Nonhuman Kinds: The Plant Symposium
Saturday, November 21, 2015, 7 pm
Sector 2337
2337 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago IL

Fereshteh Toosi, the Laboratory for Material Thinking, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney will lead two workshops, and screen one film.

Saturday's events include:
2-3:30pm - Botanical Photograms Workshop by Fereshteh Toosi
In the mid 1850s, botanist Anna Atkins used a direct printing method called cyanotype to document the plants she was studying. During this hands-on workshop, participants will use the same techniques, developing blueprints using just the sun and water. Together the group will compose images of plant matter and other materials found during a field trip.

4-6pm - Attention Feeder Workshop by the Laboratory for Material Thinking
The Attention Feeder is a two hour collective exercise in prolonged attention. For it, the Laboratory for Material Thinking will begin by creating a shared vocabulary for use during a series of guided narratives on the interwoven relationship between living, nonliving, and human perception, as a way to perceive in less anthropocentric ways.

6:30-7pm - havoc and tumbled a film by Kera MacKenzie + Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Directors Andrew Mausert-Mooney and Kera MacKenzie and actor Nate Whelden produce live television from one angle and theater from another. Recorded in front of a studio audience during Live to Tape: Artist-Television Festival, May 2015, Chicago, a man attends to the tasks at hand, amidst disruptions. On the other side of the stage/edit: the story of changing American landscapes and the inner character of rare plant life that thrive below telephone lines.

This event is part of Following Nonhuman Kinds: The Plant Symposium, a series of talks, workshops, and performances that explore vegetal life in conjunction with Sector 2337's current exhibition, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening.