The Dose that Makes the Poison

This podcast, which accompanies the performance Carried Away: Beyond a Rooted Condition by Madison Bycroft, Nana (Anaïs) Pinay, and Léo Landon Barrett for TBA21 on st_age, is hosted by researcher and writer Jess Saxby. It draws links between the artwork’s themes of naming, taxonomy, and categorisation to the broader discipline of botany, and considers the performance’s location in the botanical gardens of Córdoba. Samir Boumediene is a historian whose research focuses on the search for medicinal plants in the 15th century, and Chanelle Adams is a multidisciplinary essayist, researcher, and translator who is currently working on the political ecology of medicinal plants in Madagascar. Through their insights we can trace histories of bioprospecting, taxonomy, and appropriation of knowledge and resources that continue to this day. Credits: Contributors: Chanelle Adams and Samir Boumediene Conducted by Jessica Saxby Cover image: Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France

Om Podcasten

TBA21 on st_age is TBA21’s research and commissioning digital space. Based on long-term relationships of trust, it reaches out to bring a multiplicity of voices and contexts into conversation, supporting artist’s needs throughout both research and practice. TBA21 on st_age focuses on environmental and social contemporary artistic practices, and presents video, animation, sound, and text works, as well as projects specifically designed to be experienced online. These are accompanied by a series of contextual materials, which make both the work and the research behind it accessible to a broader audience. These materials include artist-curator conversations, editorial podcasts, research clusters, and calls to actions, as well as the backst_age series, which connects the different projects through conversations, video glossaries, and curated views. All featured works remain the property of the artists and authors.