Screening and conversation
Admission starts at $5
June 29, 2023, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, June 29 at 7pm for a screening of selected short films and video works by Erin Johnson, followed by a conversation between Heather Davis and the artist.
Focusing on queer mapping, unclassifiable plants, land use, and a herd of goats, this program presents four of Erin Johnson’s videos that explore interspecies relationships and taxonomic blindspots to invite a reappraisal of colonial scientific narratives.
In To Be Sound Is to Be Solid (2022, 15 minutes), an oceanographer’s attempt to map the entire seafloor by 2030 parallels the filmmaker’s attempt to decipher the opaque queer history of a modernist seaside home through its complicated and circuitous floor plan. There Are Things In This World That Are Yet To Be Named (2020, 8 minutes) pairs images of a plant whose fluid sexual expression has baffled botanists for decades, with voiceover of the private correspondence between influential environmentalist Rachel Carson and her secretly beloved addressee, Dorothy Freeman. Heavy Water (2018, 15 minutes) follows a Department of Energy biologist tasked with studying the impact of radioactive waste on animals living in the Savannah River Site, a nuclear weapons complex in South Carolina. The two-channel video brings together the precarious, untenable future of nuclear waste with the uncertain past of a breed of dogs living on the site, following tensions between individual and state, ecological diversity and climate change. If It Won’t Hold Water, It Surely Won’t Hold a Goat (2014, 10 minutes) is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the people who spend time with them.
The screening of the films will be followed by a discussion with Heather Davis on the intersections of queer life and nature.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.