Situated Knowledges: Organism; Plantationocene; Biopolitics by Rachy McEwan & Raya Gray

11-25 June 2022. T W F Sa. 12-5pm Th 12-6pm.

In multispecies alliance, across divisions of nature, culture, technology they explore the relationship between organism, language and machine. The boundaries are blurred through bodies being a multitude of both human and non-human cells. Their work actively engages with ecological and technological perspectives and issues. Mapping terrains and infrastructures to draw connections between ecology and technology made by the infrastructures that nature provides through a semi-fictional conceptual artistic lens.

Simultaneously working with traditional media and less conventional types that evoke the senses, they allow for

objective investigations with a keen acknowledgment of the role subjectivity plays in producing knowledge. Their view on knowledge production is less about a definitive outcome and more about fluctuations in what we are looking at and researching, where they open up nonconceptual spaces.

Through research and techno-sensual artistic exploration, Rachy and Raya open a new discourse in the realms of cognition and artificial intelligence, introducing concepts of the sensorial ecology of intelligence, machine ecosystems,

and biological machines. Maintaining a practice focused on co-subjectivity. Their project collaborates with engineers,

synthetic and microbiologists, scientists, perfumers and non-human organisms.