February 24, 2012 – 12:30 pm | Lecture + Gallery Talk
Artist's Performance: Lecture of the Artist: "Empathetic Plant Alchemy"
Location: Auditorium
FREE, seating is first come, first served
- A page from the book Empathetic Plant Alchemy 2011, gouche on paper 40” x 30” Courtesy of the artist
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Saya Woolfalk’s recent work explores cultural transformation and hybridity by imagining the effects of crossing species. The artist uses a hybridized group of fictional Empathics to investigate systems of human classification and the reasons why we might choose to embody monstrous forms outside of known categories. 
In her performance Artist’s Lecture: “Empathetic Plant Alchemy,” Woolfalk will present a pseudo-scientific lecture about these Empathics who are slowly mutating to become like plants. The lecture will focus on animated images from a book called Empathetic Plant Alchemy and describe the merger of human and plant DNA.
This program has been developed in conjunction with Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, and Saya Woolfalk is one of the artists whose work is on view in the exhibition.