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Our Conspiring Hosts: Of Rivers, Vines, And Microbes
28 Mar, 2024 - 08 Apr, 2024
The exhibition courts the eco-horror genre with its formulations of weird natural phenomena teasing the borders of the human. In an epoch dubbed the 鈥楢nthropocene鈥� that points to the overlarge human footprint behind rampant biospheric shifts, the speculative genre of eco-horror opens a fundamental line of inquiry into what it means to be human today. It questions the damaging fiction of humanity that has alienated itself from the world, turning on its host like a parasite, or a tumour. The defamiliarising gaze trained by the exhibition exposes the human in all his vulnerable porosity that makes him continuous with the surrounding world鈥攐pen to all kinds of invasions and an unwitting host to alien colonies. Viewed in this light, horror would seem as much a product of contemplation of queer ecologies as of revelation of otherness as always already within.
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Nehru House (3rd floor) 4, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, India 110002
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