Circuit

Filmed across Tournon-sur-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, and Dakar, seuteu unravels an archaeology of Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye’s matrilineal ancestry. Carried by the air, we drift in and over homes, bodies of water, landscapes, and atmospheres, contemplating the space between memory and lived experience.

Electrical resistance in plants is used to generate specific soundscapes, which accompany these video portraits of plants around the neighbourhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn, USA.

Documentation of the work A Wardian Case, in which plant cell signals from flora living on Te Kawau Tumaro o Toi Kawau Island are made resonant in chorus and cacophony.

Nineteenth century botanical models are transposed using 3D scanning and CAD technologies into a virtual space, and are accompanied by the words and voice of Colleen Coco Collins, who traces the stories of each plant and fungus represented.