Splitting Mammalian Weeds: Monster for a Memory

Shana De Villiers

About this exposition

This is not a thesis of trying to mine a singular understanding, but a collecti(ion)(ve) body of research composed into a gesture. Other than my memories, I have only grazed the surface of the topics I will discuss (even then, memories are at the fragile grace of synaptic connections) There are holes here, tears that will take a lifetime to mend. As I will mention later, I am not interested in a singular whole. Holes, however, are curious places with a warm spot for happenings, so I am okay with the holes. All patchworks are several and my obsession with their cobbled nature does not mean there are no moments of stillness and clarity. This work is an archive of the muddiness of being and I invite you to draw parallels with your own logic as you stumble through this patchy, leaky, weed forest.

type	research exposition
keywords	queer ecologies, time, memory, geology, colonial memory
date	06/05/2023
published	06/05/2023
last modified	06/05/2023
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Royal Academy of Art: The Hague
copyright	Shana de Villiers
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2123498/2123499
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2123498
published in	Research Catalogue

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