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Final days to experience To See without Man by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali at the Solar Physical Cabinet, Archenhold Observatory - part of @screencitybiennial Other Minds

To See Without Man is a poetic attempt to make contact with the vegetal mind, in an effort to understand the plants’ modes of sensing their surroundings. Can mind-expanding symbiosis with plants lead us to a broader understanding of their ways of seeing, communicating, and remembering? Can the leaf as an energy-processing surface provide a practical tool to rethink extractive practices, those that are leading to an anthropogenic depletion of resources? Can photosynthesis provide a speculative framework to imagine a future in which the human body has learned to process starlight and has partly become vegetal?

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial.
Supported by @kulturradet & the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin / @norwegenindeutschland

Photo by Daniela Arriado
Still images: To See Without Man (2022) by @viktorpedersen & @ingridkbjorn

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