Hevea Act 6: An Elastic Continuum / Bethan Hughes (DE/GB)
An Elastic Continuum is an artistic research project developed by artist Bethan Hughes that forms the sixth act in her ongoing project, Hevea. It traces the story of Taraxacum kok saghyz, a rubber-containing plant better known as the Kazach or Russian dandelion, from the perspective of the women whose labor was and is related to its cultivation. Following the journey of this humble “weed” from the Tien Shan mountains in Kazakhstan to collective farms across the former Soviet Union, greenhouses at Auschwitz to the laboratories of multinational tire corporations in Europe, Hughes questions the entanglements between people, plants, politics and power.
Photo: tom mesic
Hevea Act 6: An Elastic Continuum / Bethan Hughes (DE/GB)
An Elastic Continuum is an artistic research project developed by artist Bethan Hughes that forms the sixth act in her ongoing project, Hevea. It traces the story of Taraxacum kok saghyz, a rubber-containing plant better known as the Kazach or Russian dandelion, from the perspective of the women whose labor was and is related to its cultivation. Following the journey of this humble “weed” from the Tien Shan mountains in Kazakhstan to collective farms across the former Soviet Union, greenhouses at Auschwitz to the laboratories of multinational tire corporations in Europe, Hughes questions the entanglements between people, plants, politics and power.
Photo: tom mesic