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BIO EXUBERANCE

By October 28, 2020
 

What biology has to teach us, Part 2

 
Zooplankton (biodiversity = strength)
Sculpey Polymer Clay, 2020
Miraloma Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Junipero Serra Elementary School Students, Grades 1, 3, 4, 5
Artist Mentor: Zoe Farmer


Animals, insects, and organisms offer many ways to challenge the conventional social constructions that we apply to our own species. The term “biological exuberance,” introduced by Dr. Bruce Bagemihl in his book of the same name, describes the surprising diversity of the animal kingdom, which encompasses a seemingly endless variety of gender and sexual fluidity. In part, this show is an exploration and celebration of wonder that fully embraces the diversity of what it is to be a biological being in an intricately interconnected network of organisms. And in part, it is a response to our confinement under the pandemic and an increased need for biophilic experiences. Biophilia, as defined by Edward O. Wilson, is “the urge to affiliate with other life forms.” Nature seems to be amplified now, as does our need to connect with it.

Diversification equals strength. Collaboration amongst all living organisms leads to biological success and, by extension, a well balanced, connected world.
– Zoe Farmer, SFArtsED’s 2019-2020 Minnesota Street Project Artist-in-Residence

Zoe Farmer
Siphonophore, 2020
Cyanotype installation

Appearing as an individual organism, the siphonophore is actually made up of many individual Zooids forming a superorganism.

Zoe Farmer, Amalia Duque, Samantha Gangitano, Lily Hannan, Parker Lee, Stella Nureyev-Hilburn, Zofia Rose Hope-Csikszentmihalyi, Stella Simmons, Agatha Sterkel, Malena Sutter, Audrey Thornton, Diego Vaznaugh-Sanchez, Trisha Yee


Zoe Farmer
Cephalopod Adaptions, 2020
Cuttlefish ink on paper
19’5” x 4’3”
Zoe Farmer
Flamboyant Plumage, 2020
Mixed Media
Zoe Farmer
Rebel Rebel, 2020
video, decorator crab
Bio Exuberance, 2020
Film collage, 7:20

Pete Belkin, Photography and Digital Media Producer
Natalie Greene, Director and Choreographer
Emily Keeler, Text Mentor
Tiersa Nureyev, Visual Arts Mentor

Featuring artwork and performances by SFArtsED Players: 
Amalia Duque, Samantha Gangitano, Lily Hannan, Parker Lee,
Stella Nureyev-Hilburn, Zofia Rose Hope-Csikszentmihalyi,
Stella Simmons, Agatha Sterkel, Malena Sutter,
Audrey Thornton, Diego Vaznaugh-Sanchez, Trisha Yee

Artifacts from Bio Exuberance

This Exhibition is made possible with support from:
The National Endowment for the Arts   •  The Sam Mazza Foundation   •  The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation

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