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.
