Estado Vegetal is Manuela Infante’s riveting piece of experimental performance art through which plants are charged with an agency capable of uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world. The book Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking, edited by Giovanni Aloi, is the first book dedicated to this performance and features essays from scholars and artists, including a fictional continuation of Infante’s work by Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Here, Infante and Wong join Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard in conversation.


Manuela Infante is a Chilean playwright, director, screenwriter, and musician who creates her own performances and tours in America, Europe, and Asia. Her works include Estado Vegetal and Metamorphosis. 

Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. She is an award-winning author whose books include The Box and Drafts of a Suicide Note.

Giovanni Aloi teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is author or editor of many books on the nonhuman and art.

Caroline Picard is a writer, cartoonist, curator, and founder of the Green Lantern Press.


A performance of Manuela Infante’s Estado Vegetal (Vegetative State), performed by Marcela Salinas, is available to watch on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9tGnvu3w8&t=8s


Art after Nature is a series edited by Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard that explores epistemological questions that emerge from the expanding, environmental consciousness of the humanities. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/art_after_nature



Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking is available from University of Minnesota Press. The volume includes pieces by Maaike Bleeker, Lucy Cotter, Prudence Gibson, Michael Marder, Dawn Sanders, Catriona Sandilands, Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/estado-vegetal



Episode references:
The Conquest of America / Tzvetan Todorov
Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher
Horizon / Manuela Infante

Art, time, nonlinearity with Manuela Infante and Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Art after Nature 5)

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and head of the Japanese Kyoto school, Nishitani Keiji's book, The Self-Overcoming Of Nihilism

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Cet épisode de podcast est en partenariat avec l'ACA2, le service d’Action Culturelle et Artistique / Animation du Campus et Association de l’université Paris Nanterre. Il vise à inviter les auditeurs à découvrir l’atelier Théâtre Texte et leur transmettre l’envie de le rejoindre grâce à une présentation globale de l'atelier et une interview avec la co-fondatrice de ce dernier, Murielle Martinelli.
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Dans cet épisode, réalisé en partenariat avec l’ACA² (Action Culturelle et Artistique / Animation du Campus et Associations) de l'Université Paris Nanterre, nous explorons la dimension culturelle de la danse et les questions d’appropriation culturelle à travers l’atelier “Danser ensemble - Les danses d’Aventures” animé Corine Miret. 

Découvrez comment cet atelier met en lumière les échanges, les inspirations et les frontières culturelles dans le monde de la danse.

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