[spectre] New podcast with artist, researcher and theorist Elaine Gan

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast with artist and researcher Elaine Gan*


*In this podcast, Elaine Gan
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-323-elaine-gan> talks about crop
science, feral technologies, the global pandemic, radical difference,
natureculture, the art of noticing, Matsutake mushrooms, and, of course,
rice.*


Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-323-elaine-gan


A grain of *rice* sits in a field on the banks of the Mekong river. A water
buffalo breaks up soil in the Ifugao terraces in the Philippines. A black
box containing rice seeds is placed on a shelf inside the Svalbard seed
vault at -18°C in Norway. From such a common seed, hidden in plain sight,
artist-scholar Elaine Gan weaves a dynamic network of relationships
connecting agroecology and more-than-human sociability, subsistence farmers
and climate change, contaminated taxonomies and feminist theory.

With a PhD in Film & Digital Media and Anthropology, Elaine Gan combines
methods from art, science and humanities. Using relations and landscape as
units of analysis, and exploring the temporal coordinations and assemblages
that drive historical and evolutionary change, her practice takes the form
of a porous composite of field notes, vector drawings, feral walks,
installations and speculative timepieces and maps. Her research process,
like the landscape itself, manifests as a fluid assemblage.

Informed by “naturecultures”, a concept coined by Donna Haraway, Gan’s
output challenges concepts of linear time and rethinks critically
human-centric perspectives. Her work unfolds in multi-year, collaborative
projects and focuses on multispecies interactions and on “mapping worlds
otherwise”. This predisposition has led her to develop fungal clocks with
anthropologist Anna Tsing, create speculative chronometers for time
travelers, and explore feral technology as the work of more-than-human
beings.

Elaine Gan teaches at New York University, Center for Experimental
Humanities and Social Engagement and directs the Multispecies Worldbuilding
Lab, an experimental podcast about climate change. She is currently working
on a book that follows the cultivation of rice as a flowering grass,
companion species, technoscientific seed, data, and patent.

*E/N/J*/*O/Y!!!* <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-323-elaine-gan>
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