Postindustrial Ecologies

Postindustrial Ecologies

Dawn Felicia Knox
Future Proof
Sat 30 Mar 2024   -  Sun 26 May 2024
Wed - Sun (11am - 5pm)
_ Venue: Meadows Gallery

Interlinking, multimedia installations by Dawn Felicia Knox exploring the way plants and fungi work together to undo the toxic residue of industrialisation. Moving through deep time into the mycorrhizal remediating present, the work investigates 320 million years on one plot of land.  The site, a coalmine during the industrial revolution, is a contaminated brownfield yet through the entanglement of plants and fungi it has become a vibrant ecosystem. Dawn’s work digs through the layers of time to unearth the architecture of bioremediation knitting together in our wastelands.

Presented by The University of Edinburgh, Summerhall and ASCUS Art & Science, in partnership with Edinburgh Futures Institute