Thinking with Lichens and Weeds

Plants have a unique capacity to relate to other entities, collaborating with bacteria, fungi, insects and other human and more-than-human planters, showing us how life is a matter of alliances, relationships and mixtures.
During this event, thinker Teresa Castro analyses the affective ecologies suggested by lichens and weeds, investigating their implications and imaginaries. Her starting point is Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson’s installation Like Lichens Listen, exploring the potential of lichens, weeds and cinematic images to suggest other ways of seeing and relating to the world.

— On the day of the event, Maglioni and Thomson’s installation Like Lichens Listen will be on display at the BMAG Auditorium.

Teresa Castro is Professor of Cinema Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She investigates the relationship between cinema and animism, ecocriticism and vegetal life.

Fotografia: Renato Cruz Santos