Laurie Palmer: Lessons from lichen worlds
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by A. Laurie Palmer: a writer, artist, and author of the book The Lichen Museum. In paying attention to lichen, Laurie looks to these symbiotic organisms as a template for enriching human and multi-species relationality.
How might lichen, and their refusal to be scientifically categorized, offer a model of living that nurtures slowness, adaptability, and diversity? In what ways do they remind us how to practice mutual aid, and reconfigure narratives of dominance?
Join us in conversation with Laurie as she invites us to dream and play with lichen through artistic explorations of multiplicity and prosperity. And join us in alchemize to be invited into imagination practices inspired by lichen ways of worlds.
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| 1:04.0 | And that is that nobody yet knows, |
| 1:07.0 | and I believe that this is still true to this day, how this symbiotic collaboration |
| 1:15.5 | happens. You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamaya Jane. Today, we are speaking with |
| 1:24.5 | Lori Palmer, whose work is concerned with material explorations of |
| 1:28.9 | matters active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds, |
| 1:34.4 | and with collaborating on strategic actions in the context of social and environmental justice. |
| 1:40.1 | She sees art in its surprising, sensory, relational, and critically constructive capacities |
| 1:45.4 | as a liberatory force that can contribute to collective and systemic transformation. |
| 1:51.5 | Her work sometimes takes form as sculpture, installation, or writing, but also as collaborative |
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