High Noon: Saberes Laterales (Lateral Knowledges) — with Sebastián Llovera, Venezuelan Artist Based in St. Louis

Venezuelan artist Sebastián Llovera, now based in St. Louis, discusses his artistic practice. He explains how he seeks to subvert dominant instruments and methods of knowledge production by exploring the dynamics among what is defined as nature, culture, and technology. Through “speculative collaborations” with systems such as machine learning algorithms. and fungi, he reexamines the concept of agency in search of lateral, integrative ways of knowing and acting within the world. Driven by a seemingly disparate range of influences, from science and epistemology to the tropical and its popular cultures, from extractivism to forced migration, he will show how his work combines media from different moments in time and space, resulting in experiences that articulate a marginal, hybrid knowledge.