Interspecies Library: Sensoria Session I

Sensoria Sessions invites us to attune our human senses to alternative frequencies, intelligences, and more-than-human ways of being.

Through guest-curated films, soundscapes, book selections, and sensory activations, each session builds an immersive environment for critical, speculative, and tactile encounters with worlds beyond our own.

5:00-6:00pm Browsing session with Interspecies Library: Zine Assembly, and aural immersion with an ambient radio mix

6:00pm Seating for film program

6:15-8:00pm Film program

8:00-8:30pm Closing discussion

For the first gathering, Sensoria Session I brings together zines, sounds and moving images.

Interspecies Library: Zine Assembly is the traveling branch of Interspecies Library highlighting short run and self published printed materials on multispecies kinships

Sensorial radio mix by Joe Valle and Miguel Gajdos

Sensorial Film Shorts curated by Jacob Lindgren

Across dandelions, octopuses, chlorophyll, horses, caterpillars, a camel, and other non-human “actors,” this series of experimental shorts invites us to tune in to interspecies frequencies, intelligences, and more-than-human ways of being, watching, and watching beings. Opening with a galloping horse (an early ingredient in the gelatin used for cellulose nitrate film) and closing with a close-up of three weeds (themselves used to eco-process the film stock), the works featured offer a means of displacing the anthropocentric point of view while also proposing what a filmic politics in tune with human/non-human collaboration might look like.

Including works by Ana Vaz, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Dawn George, Ibrahim Shaddad, Laurence Favre, Leandro Listorti, and Malcolm Le Grice. Program duration: 72 minutes.

About Facilitator:

Interspecies Library is the first archive of conceptual artists' books and artifacts exploring our evolving entanglements with animal, plant, fungal and bacterial ecosystems.

Disclaimer: Content Advisory: This program may include flashing images, visual effects, and some content that some viewers may find sensitive. Viewer discretion is advised.