RIXC Art Science Festival
Kim Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LatviaCurator: Yvonne Volkart (CH), Raitis Smits (LV)
Artists: Uģis Albiņš (LV), Ursula Biemann (CH), Felipe Castelblanco (CO/CH), Karine Bonneval (FR), Gints Gabrāns, Arnis Rītups (LV), Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick (FR/US), Julia Mensch (AR/CH), Marc Lee (CH), Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy (CO), Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (LV), Zheng Bo (CN)
Kim Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
The exhibition "plant intelligence" @ Kim? Contemporary Art Centre is a collaboration with the SNSF-funded research project “Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant” (2022–2025) (https://plants-intelligence.ch), asking from the perspective of art, whether the recognition of vegetal forms of intelligence might lead to other methods of knowledge generation, coexistence, breeding and ultimately to new, “intelligent” forms of plant and agricultural culture.
The exhibition’s conceptual context is based on the “Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant” theoretical framework proposed and developed by Swiss art theorist Yvonne Volkart:
“Current research proves what ancient practices already knew: plants are more complex beings than previously assumed. With reference to this, the research project ‘Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant’ explores the discourse of plant intelligence in the natural sciences, the humanities and the arts. It negotiates the conceptualisation of intelligence and its interweaving with concepts such as mind, consciousness, communication, memory, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, subjectivity. It asks whether this conceptualisation makes sense of the behaviours of vegetal life and whether it promotes new perspectives on interspecies and terrestrial relationships.”
Exhibited Artwork
Speculative Evolution
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