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In one of the chapters of the 1959 publication, 'Plant Pathology: An Advanced Treatise', two scientist, Ikuzo Uritani and Takashi Akazawa, formulated an equation for depicting what a change in the metabolic process of respiration in a plant caused by an outside pathogen might look like. This exposition will use this equation as a starting point to think through empathy and more-than-human modes of being. Using disease and the afflicted body (human and more-than-human) it will explore how art-making and curatorship can translate this equation into the affective and the visual realm through various modes of play. In this manner, it will also speak back to, and subvert, the clinical scientific language through which these occurrences are conveyed in scientific communities - making the familiar strange to these practitioners. Documentation of these various translations will take on the form of text, sound, video and images of personal explorations, as well as manifestations from a range of other artists and disciplines (such as architects, musicians, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, to name a few). As such, the exposition will be an expanded 'object-study' of this equation, realised curatorially.

type	research exposition
keywords	equation, empathy, object study, curatorship, play, art-making
date	08/06/2023
last modified	19/08/2024
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	Uniarts
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2192335/2192336
external link	https://www.uniarts.fi/en/projects/planthology/

name	Equation
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

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copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

name	The Wedding Ring
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
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name	1975
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
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name	Untitled
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	video

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copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

name	Planthology (In Situ)
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

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copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

name	Forest
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

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copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

name	Wine_Into_Water
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	video

name	Flight
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	audio

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copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

name	Chest (Detail)
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	slideshow

name	The Heart (Treatment)
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

name	The Heart (Original)
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

name	Equation
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

name	Planthology
copyright	Nina Liebenberg
license	Public domain
usages	picture

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