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Spatial Atmospheres

The Curious Closet of Benevolent Knowledge

Group BAMBITCHELL

Bambitchell’s practice relies on nonhuman forms, such as archival materials, government documents, plants, and animals to reimagine and rescript dominant historical narratives. These narratives – which are often embedded in histories of colonialism, militarism, and violence – become undone through the examination of »queer« objects – the minutia that are often overlooked in official records. In this presentation, they will discuss some of their recent projects, which employ nonhuman forms such as the plant life embedded in nuclear landscapes, a group of military mules, and an archive of documents relating to a neighborhood in Toronto, Canada, in order to foreground the importance of nonhuman actors in rescripting spatial practices and narratives of belonging. By playfully reimagining history, they use camp, irony, and humor to merge fact and fiction, public and private, human and nonhuman, and to interrogate our contemporary moment.