Drawing on the interdisciplinary terrain of the plant humanities, this conference seeks to reframe houseplants as a critical site for exploring the cultural, political, aesthetic, and ecological entanglements between humans and (domesticated) plants.
We seek to create a critical cohort to consider how we might collect differently, tell differently, and ultimately know differently in a time of environmental precarity. We welcome both submissions and conference participation from a wide range of fields, including but not limited to:
We also invite contributions and participation from those working in community gardens, botanical institutions, conservation, activism, and creative practice who are experimenting with how we might create and curate new narratives around plants.
We encourage contributions that employ experimental methodologies or speculative approaches, that challenge conventional boundaries between disciplines, species, and epistemologies to mirror the complexity of human-plant co-habitation.
Professor, Ph.D, Art History and Visual Culture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and the co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press book series Art after Nature.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Guest Researcher, Natural History Museum Denmark.
PI: Field/Work in the Archive - Herbaria as Sites of Cultural Exchange.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University.
Co-director of the research programme Environmental Media and Aesthetics.
PI: Hidden Plant Stories: The Art of Discovering Human-plant Entanglements in the Grown Danish Home
