PHOTOPHAGIA

The Secret Life of Plants will be described by gardeners and shown without the picture

Aislinn Thomas

Victoria Park

Informal audio description by plant-lovers is woven into the 1979 documentary The Secret Life of Plants, which has a soundtrack created by Stevie Wonder using a similar approach. It is screened without the picture, inviting “viewers” to sit in relative darkness together and listen.

Click here for the full transcript.

Aislinn Thomas (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes video, performance, sculpture, installation, and text. She culls material from everyday experiences and relationships, creating work that ranges from poignant to absurd. Many of her recent projects respond to disability. She is grateful to work alongside and in the legacy of so many who treat access and survival as spaces for creative acts, experimentation, and pleasure. Aislinn is a white settler of Ashkenazic and British descent. She lives in Unama’ki, on ancestral and unceded Mi’kmaw territory. You can learn more about her work at aislinnthomas.ca

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