Artist Tully Arnot's latest work, EPIPHYTES, is a multi-sensory virtual reality experience exploring plant communication, posthumanism and alternate forms of perception. To create EPIPHYTES, Arnot partnered with evolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano, who pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own ‘voices’ and detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. Her work has extended the concept of cognition (including perception, learning processes, memory) in plants.
The pair spoke about Arnot's practice and why he chose VR as a medium to express his ideas, and discussed the importance of slowing down, 'listening' to, and looking more closely at the communication lines and biological relationships that exist in the plant kingdom as a means of altering the way we perceive our world.
About Tully Arnot
https://www.acmi.net.au/creators/86157--tully-arnot/
About Monica Gagliano
https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/tully-arnot-epiphytes-audio-and-transcripts/#monica-gagliano
Mordant Family VR Commission
Proudly supported by Catriona Mordant AM and Professor Cav. Simon Mordant AO, the City of Melbourne and ACMI
Learn more https://www.acmi.net.au/collection-preservation/commissions/mordant-family-vr-commission/
Learn more about Epiphytes: https://www.acmi.net.au/works/121797--epiphytes/
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