Update 16 October: The announcement became a musing with some reflections afterwards.
Why this plant?
After Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, one of the co-founders of writing(with)plants, representing a bigger collective did a session on the Dose Symposium foregrounding the hogweed, there was a fascinating email exchange between some of us..
Is it an evil plant? We found text connecting the hogweed with imperialism in Russia and post-soviet landscapes. The song by Genesis is also portraying this plant as something scary.
It is tricky to not fall in binary thinking and label plants as good or wrong, poison or medicine. Perhaps they are both. Or should we follow the advice of Rumi’s poem to meet at a grass field beyond doing good and wrong, in a world without labeling?
This session might unearth that even talking about, writing with… plants can be political and emotion-laden.
Especially now in times of more militarization and genocide and ecocide, and discourse around invasion and resistance, this guest plant might let us enter into some dark conversations and shadow work.
Some fragmented outcomes
This is written in the short timeslot of 20-30 minutes in the second half of the writing(with)plants session.
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