No Claim to the Blue-Green Bloom by Krista-Leigh Davis

No Claim to the Blue-Green Bloom

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No Claim to the Blue-Green Bloom is an experimental video world replete with creatures, real and imagined, human and more-than-human, working in diverse and divergent ways to get out from under the toxic bloom that blankets them. Their stories are brought into relationship on a radio show about a quiet revolution of care for the earth, and are visualized by the show’s host through costumed performances in the landscape. Intercut between these stories, the host builds a relationship with Faro, an abandoned mine in Yukon, Canada. Too toxic to visit in person, she performs connection exercises that build intimacy-across-distance. She has a hunch this could lead to cultural remediation: shifts in how we think, act and consume in relation to resource extraction. The project’s initial question: what happens if we turn to toxicity with intimacy and care, rather than quarantine and fear?, was investigated through an array of embodied queer tactics such as eco-camp, becoming-other, and shape-shifting. These investigations not only reveal possible strategies towards a more sustainable future, but also a space where a multitude of strategies, even those at odds with each other, can coexist. A queer collective working towards possible futures.

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