Sticky Entanglements

Looking at crops and soil as living archives, we have been exploring the critical materiality and hidden narratives of cross breeding rice; addressing landscape formation and the cultivation and commercialisation of genetically modified crops as a technology of control. Focusing on entangled readings of Hōrai rice, ― the Japanese Empire rice engineering project in colonial Taiwan (1895-1945)― our research attempts to visibilize a counter cartography within the engineered body of the seed where varying layers of power, knowledge, science and ecologies are ingrained within.

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*pictures by Hajime Kato