SEED TIME² is a real and virtual “printing press” organized as a feminist media cooperative. It utilizes DIY (Do-It-Yourself) and avant-garde art methodologies, such as those associated with Fluxus (which emphasizes the process of artistic creation over the finished product), to disseminate decolonial strategies related to renewable energy transition. Seed Time² helps us imagine how we might dismantle oppressive institutions and practices, de-grow toxic, unjust economies and systems, and regenerate ecologies by placing feminist practices, values, and labours of care at the center of our communities, economies, and societies.
What do we need to de-grow in order to re-grow?
At SQUARE, Seed Time² was activated through metaphoric and actual components related to seeds and their renewable energy: planting, pollination, germination, tending/nurturing, harvesting, gentle consumption, and composting for de-growing carbon and energy intensive food systems and agriculture, among other things. Cards distributed throughout SQUARE are meant to be taken away by visitors and include poems and seed motifs to generate discussion and thinking around carbon capture, regenerating biodiversity, intervening in the politics of land grabbing for mega-energy developments, and promoting feminist education, solidarity, and conviviality. Seed Time² also included a screening of artist Teegan Moore’s short film Pyriscience.
