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Kinnomic Botany
Freeing the Potato from its Scientific and Colonial ties, Film, 2020-22Kinnomic Botany sets out a vision of a parallel botanical world through the ‘eyes’ of a potato. Entered through a clay pot, the landscape makes visual a system of mapping that encompasses what has long been lost from the potato’s history, while offering new pathways to connect with the plant world through personal and tacit experience.
As a species that crossed the Atlantic from Peru, the potato is subject to a typical hero story - the unexpected reward reaped by conquistadors on their exhibitions to Peru in search of gold. Instead, they returned with the potato. The result, a spread of potatoes emerging from a narrow genetic bottleneck and a nomenclature to represent a new order over territories, borders, and non-human bodies.
But now
It is time to re(remember)
I am more than my tuber.
I am my seed,
my flower,
my fruits,
my roots.
It is time to re(remember)
I am more than my tuber.
I am my seed,
my flower,
my fruits,
my roots.