Bed of Peonies,
2022

Video, Performance, Poetry

This video piece breaks down binary understanding of history as good/evil and embrace the spectral web of complexities, encouraging the audience to sew new seeds and grow the gardens to break the old forms and make new kin to move beyond our current ways of knowing and being. “Bed of Peonies” blends footage from experimental performance practices during my period of fieldwork in queer eco-communities along with open-access footage and my own footage that I’ve collected over the years. The focus on and use of flowers in this video also is rooted in my interest in the queerness of flowers and their multiplicities (see “FUCKING PANSIES: Queer Poetics, Plant Reproduction, Plant Poetics, Queer Reproduction” by Caspar Heineann).