resistance

Über Nacht - Eine neue Macht

Students of the SchülerInnenschule im WUK (AT)

Lilo and her friends like their school. But overnight, the Neue Leistungspartei (NLP — “New Achievement Party”) comes into power, with the new school principal, Engelbert, and his sidekick heading up a violent regime. For the students at the school, a seemingly hopeless struggle begins.

Probing the Planthroposcene: Excerpts from a Dis-service Society

Alexandra Toland (US/DE)

Can “ecosystem services” and disservices provided by plants be seen as phyto-technologies of multi-species societies? How are spaces of creative dissonance, resilience, and resistance created by outliers: pests, parasites, invasive species, and allergens? What moral agency do humans have in determining the assets and liabilities of plants during the environmental strains of the Anthropocene? These questions are explored through an assemblage of objects, images, and recordings featuring plants as protagonists in natural habitats along roadsides, probing what Natasha Myers (2016) has dubbed the “Planthroposcene.”