Jan 12 2023 10 mins
The final episode from artist Luiza Prado de O. Martins’ series, Notes to the Seers, explores the plant Queen Anne’s Lace.
In this three-part series, listeners are invited to encounter artemisia, Queen Anne’s Lace and rue, guided by the artist’s voice within a soundscape created by Obaro Ejimiwe.
These three plants grow wild both in the Americas and Europe; vegetal material travelling across geographical, political, and cultural borders. This sensorial encounter revolves around tasting as a form of relation, capable of materialising a connection between human and plant beings, and of nurturing forms of queer kinship and healing.
Simultaneously it entails a process of assimilation and integration, where consumption becomes the currency that governs perception—resonating with the colonial power relations that manage the porosity of national borders.
Created by Luiza Prado de O. Martins with Obaro Ejimiwe
Post Production – Nastassja Simensky
Copyright – Luiza Prado de O. Martins / Obaro Ejimiwe
Post Production – Nastassja Simensky
Copyright – Luiza Prado de O. Martins / Obaro Ejimiwe