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Artist talk by Taey Iohe
Presented as part of Sophie Seita’s and Naomi Woo’s exhibition bingenTV at Mimosa House

Wednesday, November 22, 2023
  • 4:30 PM  6:30 PM
  • Mimosa House


Emerging wild fiddleheads, photo by Taey Iohe

Leak Out of Body, Leak Out of Planet

How do our defiant earthly bodies and we release our tears, pus, lymph, hormones, bile, blood, and embodied knowledge into an uncertain tomorrow? What are the consequences of this leakage resulting from our experiences of upheaval, land excavations, and weary bodies? The act of separating land from water isn't merely division; it represents an act of creation. Likewise, the separation of ailing bodies from the wounded planet is intricately linked to colonial actions, affecting those residing by the water's edge or at the outermost margins of society. What emerges as a result of leaking from these experiences of uprooting, land disruptions, and exhausted bodies? Artist Taey Iohe will share their ongoing artistic research on 'leak territories' in personal and socio-botanical accounts, navigating polluted environments, encompassing both natural and societal systems, with profound impacts felt by the most vulnerable beings.

Taey Iohe is a migrant art worker, a slow gardener, and a queer mother who creates and follows stories of decolonising botany as a practice through an Asian crip/queer feminist lens. Their approach fuses research-based work with personal narratives that challenge the socio-botanical entanglements within medicine culture, and climate justice. Taey is a co-founder of the Decolonising Botany Working Group and has presented a performance, A Refusing Oasis at Documenta 15 (2022). Taey holds a PhD in the programme of Gender, Identity and Culture at the School of English and Film, University College Dublin, funded by Writing On Borders. Taey is a working member of the Feminist Duration Reading Group and a resident at Somerset House. Taey teaches Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art.

Listening Source
https://www.nts.live/shows/phambinho/episodes/phambinho-3rd-october-2023