Lucy Davis, Shannon Lee Castleman, Zai Kuning, Zat Tang: The Secret Lives of Forest Products: A Collaboration about Teak, Humans & DNA
Artist(s):
Title:
- The Secret Lives of Forest Products: A Collaboration about Teak, Humans & DNA
Symposium:
Medium:
- Animated video
Duration:
- 24’00”
Artist Statement:
This film is a visual art, science, and ecology exploration which traces the historic, genetic, material, and poetic journeys of a 1950s teak bed found in a Singapore junk store back to a location in Southeast Asia where the original teak tree may have grown. The project brings together cross-cultural natural histories, micro- and macro-arboreal influences and DNA timber tracking technology.
