Mercedes Azpilicueta, Vivian Caccuri, Keira Greene, nabbteeri, Rebecca Jagoe.
Interspecies Entanglements looked at relationships between different entities, humans and non-humans, at macro and micro scale, reflecting on the environment and ecosystems.
This exhibition brought together artists and artworks that highlight humanity’s interdependence on non-human species, with radical approaches to making work in the shadow of looming climate catastrophe and political upheaval. We centred stories of our non-human companions, folding time from the deep, slow formation of rocks to the brief flicker of insects. Bodies overlapped and interacted, building new collaborations and relationships.
In mutant and nondurable, the artist duo nabbteeri delightfully exposed the shifting and decomposing population of insect life, collecting the remains of arthropods from their immediate surroundings. Further exploring our insect connections, The New World Syrup & The Fever Hand by Vivian Caccuri tracked the emergence and recent re-emergence of yellow fever in Brazil.
Mercedes Azpilicueta’s Molecular Love: Act 4 combined deconstructed scores and tie-dyed décors to create assemblages of multiple bodies fed by migrating organic matter. In Eustatic Drift by Keira Green, we heard from the fossils of Graptolites, our long extinct plankton ancestry.
Interspecies Entanglements continued online with a performance-based film by Rebecca Jagoe. The work invited us to consider deep time, in relation to human-centred terms of life and European mediaeval conceptions of animism. It was inspired by The Peterborough Lapidary; a mediaeval church manuscript describing medicinal properties of stones.
Experience Rebecca Jagoe’s film A Sicknesse, A Ston [CORAL] here.
Lead image: nabbteeri, Mutant and Nondurable, 2020.
Image credit: Jules Lister, 2024
