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Gediminas Urbonas.
Valladares, Nancy Dayanne.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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2020
2020
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138579
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Thesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, September, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-80).
A Dedicated Mechanism for Forgetting, narrates the process and research behind the films Botanical Ghosts and The Density of Breath, expanding on two years of my artistic research and practice. Part fiction, part epistolary exchange, A Dedicated Mechanism for Forgetting is a meditation on conceptions of vision and sensitivity to light beyond anthropocentric views. Narrating the story of Dorothy Hughes Popenoe and her encounter with the fruit of the Ackee Tree ( Blighia Sapida) at Lancetilla Botanical Gardens, the project retells histories of plant transportation and botanical exchange in the north coast of Honduras through the lens of plant agency, filmmaking, critical plant studies, and magic. Utilizing this approach, this thesis locates itself within recent botanical and speculative turns and points towards the potential of a vegetal configuration for art practice and fictioning.
by Nancy Dayanne Valladares.
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology
S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
80 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A dedicated mechanism for forgetting : fiction and the ghosts of the plantationocene
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