Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks
Francesca, Brunetti (2024) Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. [2D Design, Animation, Curation, Digital art, Video]
Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: Here, A Place. ICI Open Museum.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Here, A Place. ICI Open Museum.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: Here, A Place. ICI Open Museum.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: Here, A Place. ICI Open Museum.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms and Other Punks. Exhibition Photo: The Thing to Put Things In. MOMS, Zhangzhou, China.
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Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms, and Other Punks is a project that has been influenced by the work of indigenous philosophers Vandana Shiva, Wangari Maathai, and Brian Burkhart, ecofeminist philosopher Val Plumwood, and environmental author William Bryant Logan. These scholars discuss how humans' understanding of soil influences how they see themselves and the world as a whole. According to them, the soil's vibrancy, agency, and inventiveness have been overlooked in traditional western thought, and the soil has been viewed, along with other minorities (the other punks in the title), as a flat and passive background for man's foreground actions. Traditional Western philosophy supported the concept of the human being as an abstract and unrooted entity, with theoretical thought regarded as superior to activities relating to the body and material world.
This theoretical framework has historically been used as justification for western imperialist and colonialist activities that devastated local communities by destroying their means of subsistence—their connections to their lands. Shiva and Maathai address how a technocratic and abstract understanding of human’s life and its relationship with nature is a mindset that support practices such as multinational’s monocultures which relate to the soil as a passive and exploitable entity that human being can dominate with his rationality.
In Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms, and Other Punks I aim to develop a multimedia project involving watercolour painting, stop motion animation, sound and interactive installation. The purpose of the project is to allow the audience to experience the vibrancy and aliveness of the soil, where organisms like rodents, roots, and worms live a busy and active life. By doing this I want to encourage audience to fantasize about a non-traditional way to see the soil as a diverse, surprising and inventive entity.
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