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索了不同的行为实践网络如何汇聚为非殖民主义行为。为此，我的博士对通过重建与我的祖国哥伦比亚生态中心的一组特定植物的遭遇的自动人种学叙事来学习的概念提出了质疑。通过与这些植物和一些相关植物的咨询、审讯和互动，我的项目旨在挑战和取代哥伦比亚殖民历史核心的叙事。埃斯佩莱西亚和普兰塔戈是独特生态系统的主要例子，该生态系统由Páramo组成，Páramo是一种发现于南美洲北部安第斯山脉的高山生物群。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接触这些植物，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。这个博士学位位于当代艺术实践领域，核心是开发一种创新的、实验性的和多模式的呈现形式，使声音、手势和话语的复调能够以符合人类和植物机构的方式表现出来。为了实现这一目标，我在ICA和斯坦利·皮克画廊等场馆举办了一系列活动，名为《不止一个物体，它的影子》。在每次活动中，我都会展示我的发现，重演我在植物学上的遭遇，借鉴了不同的来源，包括米格诺洛(2018)的非克隆思想和加利亚诺(2014)的植物感觉。由于新冠肺炎的流行和进一步研究行程的推迟，包括对关键艺术家和研究人员的Zoom采访在内的虚拟会面成为发展适当形式向广泛和不同的观众展示我的作品的核心。我博士学位的剩余部分将在这些发展的基础上设计出一种提交格式，挑战并扩展现有的知识生产和表现概念。

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.