Feb 27 2024 84 mins
Episode 23 with Western Mass-based artist, Gina Siepel! This is a live, on-site conversation at the foot of a 100 year old Red Oak tree exploring the beginnings and thinking around their current project called: To Understand a Tree. We talk about Thoreau, myths of self reliance, creative transitions, and a deep connection and exploration to place.
Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker whose artistic practice reflects an engagement with place, history, queer experience, and ecology and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina has shown their work in museums and galleries nationally. They have been a Fellow or Artist in Residence at numerous prestigious organizations as well as the recipient of many awards.
The upcoming, Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree exhibition is opening March 1st, 2024 and running through July 21st 2024 at the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please find out more here.
Gina Siepel's website & instagram. The Recursion Series discussed.
Some links to things discussed:
Boy Mechanic Series
Henry David Thoreau
Radio Lab: Susan Simard
Sara Smith: Building Capacities for Presence & Networks for the Future Now
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Paco Calvo: Plant Intelligence
Mathew Hall: Plants as Persons
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