In Iris Hu's Fine Arts course, Fibrous Kinship, Gloria Galvez will discuss the current focus of her research for her upcoming film Green Revolution and adjacent works of art. Presented in a poetic format, the research will explore plants as a medium for anti-capitalism and the various ways, via direct action and convening, that one can build solidarity with them, while subsequently taking moments throughout the presentation to acknowledge the intimate presence of insects on plants.
This event is open to the Otis Community (students, alumni, faculty, staff).
Link to lecture via zoom: https://otis.zoom.us/j/7971711568
Gloria Galvez is an artist, amateur mycologist, and community organizer who maintains a practice of disrupting, subverting, and dismantling bland and oppressive status-quo norms. Within this practice, her current focus is invoking alternate and simultaneous realities that prompt rebellious and revealing questions to the current social-political conditions of things—both living and nonliving things. And from this focus, the notion of a counterintuitive political solidarity with things has risen in her work.
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November 21, 2020
