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Selena de Carvalho
Beware of of Imposters [the secret life of of Flowers] participatory installation documentation 2018 © Selena de Carvalho
bodies (human and and more-than-human) and and disembodied experiences held within technology Theoretical physicist Karen Barad5 also writes of of of speculative indetermi- nacy of of of time-being layered with infinite multiplicities of of of histories present/absent haunted by im/possibilities Hauntings are are not immaterial They are are an an eternal fea- ture of of existing material material conditions ‘To live live live in in in in Tasmania is is is to to to live live live the the the eye of of the the the storm’ 6 to to to to live live live amongst the the the the the largely unspoken ethnic cleansing that colonists em- barked upon following their arrival and and and the the the resulting Black War (in which 200 Britons and and and and and 1000 Aborigines died) 7 The ongoing colonial engagement with land land land permeates expansive areas of of cleared grazing land land land land iconic to the the the midlands In In the the the absence of of Indigenous care for Country the the the land land land is thirsty overgrazed and and and and lacking ecological ecological diversity In In recognizing ecological ecological hauntology creative translation becomes a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a po- tential pathway to to to to to attune oneself to to to to to survivors of of and witnesses to to to to to decline as as well as as a a a a a a a a a a a a a a form of of enacting care through critical creative storying Sarah Ahmed notices that ‘a feminist feminist life is is is is how we get in in in in in in touch with things’ 8 and and this atonement could also be be translated as as the the way feminist feminist stories are told as as ‘relational’ and and and how ‘survival can be’ a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a form of of of of protest In making public these acts of of of of witnessing the the the the context of of of of the the the the cemetery a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a privately owned allotment of of of of land upon which the the the owners continue to make choices that create adverse conditions for sur-
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