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Elaine Gan, Magtanim Ay Di Biro: Planting Rice Is No Fun... – The Understory of the Understory

The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory 5th & 6th December 2020 Online at themind.fish The Understory of the Understory is the fourth instalment in an ongoing series of festivals on consciousness and intelligence across species, part of the Serpentine’s General Ecology project. With The Understory of the Understory, we go to that place which is simultaneously ground, land, soil and Earth, that is to say, the place where diverse species come together, collaborate, communicate and constitute one another but also where complex systems of redistribution of toxicity, logics of extraction and geopolitics meet. Elaine Gan Magtanim Ay Di Biro: Planting Rice Is No Fun, Bent From Morn Till the Set of Sun A dearly loved folk song in the Philippines, Magtanim Ay Di Biro is repurposed in this presentation as a critical-creative prism through which the act of planting rice may be seen as an iterative co-constitution of cultivator and cultivated through soil, water, and sunlight. Which is figure and which is ground? Planting is a relational technology cobbled together through multiple rhythms of land and life that simultaneously embody and exceed the ruptures of colonial violence. Elaine Gan's transdisciplinary practice combines methods from the arts, humanities, and social/natural sciences to engage more-than-human socialities. Through writing, drawing, media, and ethnography, Gan researches historical materialisms and temporal coordinations that emerge between organic, machinic, and cinematic assemblages. Gan teaches at New York University and leads the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab, a podcast that raises critical awareness about climate change through interviews and sound compositions that listen for untranslatable voices of worlds otherwise. Gan is co-editor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene (2017) and is presently writing about rice, realism, and change. @elainemgan