The chapter, “Soft Science: Artists’ Experiments in Documentary Storytelling” by Rachel Mayeri is found in Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience Edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11473 Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific […]
CRITTERS SPEAK is an environmental art and education project created by Rachel Mayeri for Brandon Ballengée and his portable museum of Gulf of Mexico biodiversity, CRUDE LIFE. In June 2017, Rachel joined Brandon in South Louisiana and interviewed a broad range of people to assess environmental recovery seven years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon, the largest […]