I Want to Smell the Smoke of your Burnt Grass
I Want to Smell the Smoke of your Burnt Grass, 2018
Exhibition, Halle Nord, Geneva (Switzerland)
I Want To Smell The Smoke Of Your Burnt Grass attempts to describe what may be emerging here—a sticky engagement between ancestors, organic matter, and capital’s power of invention—by navigating the tensions that lie between land-based self-determination, aspirations for food sovereignty, and the corporate control of this knowledge. This video animation is the first step in a larger work that will address food sovereignty and agroecology in post-colonial Australia.
I Want to Smell the Smoke of your Burnt Grass, 2018
HD Animation, two channels, various dimensions
I Want to Smell the Smoke of your Burnt Grass, 2018
Wall painting, various dimensions
On the left, reference images:
Marsilea drummondii an endemic fern from Australia: diagram of the fern’s internal structure and a photograph of the spore capsule closed and open.
© plantsystematics.org
On the right: collage of Marsilea drummondii spore capsules by Sarah Sandler