Situated in a imagined reality where hybridisation and
cross-fertilisation is on hyper-speed; speculative ecological fiction borders a
futuristic encounter with a post-wilderness - whilst grounded in the present
condition of the human and non-human ontologies. The post-enlightenment hierarchical
and mechanistic divisions of nature and culture are flattened in the
eco-feminist position - a potential re-engagement with the alterity of the
non-human while encapsulating notions of ever evolving ecological subjectivity.
- What are painting's limits in regards to being a site of
resistance or activism? Can nature be represented without "mastery"
(considering notions of feminist new materialism.)
- When thinking about the supposed "Death of
Nature" in the "Anthropocene" - can the non-human hold an agency
even with human intervention (regarding rewilding and the artificial/captive
natures - and preformative natures.)
- Does the notion of 'post-human' suggest a romanticsed
account of the pre-human condition, ultimately suggesting a romanticising of
notions of past wilderness?
- Does the entanglement of the forest network combined with
the ideas of cybernetic networks in relation to the vegetal world suggest a
vision of a multi-dimensional hybridisation of technologies and the organic?
- How does the fungi and symbiogenic evolution play a part
in re-imagining the forest?
