Like Someone Learning: Drawing and writing an autobiography of encounters with plants - a decolonial enquiry responding to climate emergency

我以实践为基础的研究探讨了一个多样化的表演实践网络如何作为非殖民化行为汇聚在一起。为此，我的博士通过重建与我的家乡哥伦比亚生态中心的一组特定植物相遇的自动民族志叙事，来质疑学习的概念。通过对这些植物和一些相关植物的咨询、询问和互动，我的项目旨在挑战和取代哥伦比亚殖民历史核心的叙述。Espeletia和Plantago是由páramo组成的独特生态系统的主要例子，páramo是南美洲安第斯山脉北部发现的高山生物群系。在我的博士学位期间，我进行了两次研究旅行，在它们的原生环境中遇到这些植物，绘制图纸，整理声音，视频片段和与我的项目发展相关的进一步记录。这个博士学位的核心，位于当代艺术实践领域，是一种创新的，实验性的和多模态的呈现形式的发展，它使声音，手势和话语的复调以人类和植物机构的方式表现出来。为了实现这一目标，我举办了一系列名为“不仅仅是一个物体，它的阴影”的活动，在包括ICA和Stanley Picker画廊在内的场地举行。在每次活动中，我都展示了我的发现，重新制定了我与植物学的接触，借鉴了不同的来源，包括米尼奥洛（2018）的非殖民化思维和加利亚诺（2014）的植物感知。由于2019冠状病毒病大流行和进一步研究之旅的推迟，包括Zoom对主要艺术家和研究人员的采访在内的虚拟会面，成为了我向广泛多样的观众展示作品的恰当形式的核心。我博士的剩余部分将以这些发展为基础，设计一种提交格式，挑战并扩展现有的知识生产和表示概念。

My practice-based research explores how a diverse network of performative practices can converge as acts of decolonisation. To this end, my PhD interrogates notions of learning through the reconstruction of an auto-ethnographic narrative of encounters with a specific set of plants central to the ecology of my native Colombia. Through the consultation, interrogation and interaction with these and a number of related plants, my project aims to challenge and displace narratives at the heart of Colombia's colonial history. Espeletia and Plantago are prime examples of the unique ecosystem that comprises the páramo, a high mountain biome found in the north Andes of South America. During my PhD I have undertaken two research trips to encounter these plants in their native environment, making drawings, collating sound, video footage and further records relevant to the development of my project.Central to this PhD, situated within the field of contemporary art practice, is the development of an innovative, experimental and multi-modal form of presentation which enables a polyphony of voices, gestures and utterances to manifest themselves in ways that mesh human and botanical agency. To achieve this, I have staged a series of events titled 'More than an Object, its Shadow' held at venues including the ICA and The Stanley Picker Gallery. At each event I have presented my findings re-enacting my botanical encounters, drawing on diverse sources including Mignolo's (2018) decolonial thinking and Gagliano's (2014) plant sentience.Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and postponement of further research trips, virtual encounters including Zoom interviews with key artists and researchers became central to the development of apt forms of presenting my work to wide and diverse audiences. The remainder of my PhD will build on these developments to devise a submission format that challenges and expands existing notions of knowledge production and representation.