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The Department of Planetary Futures - Seed Simulation Laboratory

The Seed Simulation Laboratory (SSL) and Mission Nucleus is an interactive art installation, performance set, and viewing room; A speculative entity situated within The Department of Planetary Futures wherein collaborative Principal Investigators, or Co-Pilots, investigate seed pods as tiny survival methodologies through embodied replication.

Humans often imagine themselves as separate from nature, enacting harmful practices of domination as opposed to living in reciprocity with the natural world. How might our relationships with imagined planetary futures be more fruitful if they begin from a process of listening to and drawing from the wisdom of plants? How might humans and nature be better served collectively if humans practice plant-based survival tactics?

Co-Pilots engaged in a series of experiments analyzing seed pod movements and translating them into both planned and improvisational human movements.

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What are the human bodily limitations in attempts to practice seed dispersal mechanisms as a human survival tactic? Where might humor and joy be found in the practice of recognizing human limitations in relationship to nature, as opposed to domination?

Credits: Jacklyn Brickman and Kathryn Nusa Logan, The Department of Planetary Futures

Co-Pilots: Katherine Moore and Sabine Bahrou

  • Jacklyn Brickman
    Director
  • Kathryn Nusa Logan
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Genres:
    dance, movement
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 8 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2022
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jacklyn Brickman, Kathryn Nusa Logan

Collaborators since 2018, Logan and Brickman share cross-disciplinary backgrounds in the visual and performing arts, multiple uses of the camera, and integrative new technologies. Their collaborative works are grounded in imagining new futures by investigating the scientific realms of botany and astronomy in relationship with the performative body. Their ongoing use of video, 3D world-building, and installation is intentional, space-sensitive, and sensory, conscientious of the viewer’s physical experience. They are Founding Scholars for the Studio D Institute Residency Program at Florida State University.

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Director Statement

The Department of Planetary Futures (DPF) is a fictional entity through which multispecies collaborative experiments are employed to investigate interrelationships humans have with other life forms and one another. At the heart of these endeavors is a desire to connect to the surrounding world and its organisms with care and humility; to learn from, engage with and speculate possible livable futures.