SEED TIME: SISTER PLANTINGS FOR REGENERATIVE ENERGY FUTURES is a research-creation project led by artist-researchers Joan Greer, Sourayan Mookerjea, and Tegan Moore. It probes the slow speeds and base properties of seeds for political models of: 1) negentropic renewable energy or, in other words, ‘reverse entropy’, i.e. things becoming more ‘in order’; 2) regenerative gift and care economies; 3) feminist conviviality and solidarity; and 4) seeds as molecular media for DIY (Do-It-Yourself) serial reproducibility and learning-by-making. Past, present, and future non-extractivist seed-communication points towards deep energy transitions to slow futures. The possibility for de-linking from the toxic waste economy may be searched for by engaging with Seed Time. This work was presented at the Prototypes for Possible Worlds exhibition, which was held at the University of Alberta’s Fine Arts Building Gallery from 10 December 2019 to 11 January 2020.
Seed Time helps us imagine how to de-grow toxic economies.
Seed Time Team Members
Additional collaborators include designer Sergio Serrano.
