Seed Sovereignty Immersive AR
By ALICE YUAN ZHANG 张元

ABOUT THE PROJECT

This immersive AR artwork would envelop people in an entangled web of seeds, roots and plants and they would honor particular stories. From my research so far, I’m thinking of the Indigenous seed rematriation work by Rowen White, the stewarding of African Diaspora varieties by Chris Bolden-Newsome, Korean and other Asian heritage crops by Kristyn Leach, cabbage for pickled curtido by Latinx immigrants at Tierra Fertil Co-op, Vietnamese refugee seeds from Resilient Roots Farm, as well as tomato varieties that tell of prison abolition from Soul Fire Farm.

About the ArtisT
Alice Yuan Zhang 张元 (she/her) is an artist, educator, and 1st-generation Chinese-American immigrant living on Tongva, Chumash, Kizh land (Los Angeles). Her practice explores socioecological entanglement through grassroots projects across browsers, networks, and other digital spaces, as well as somatic exercises and community exchanges. Zhang is the co-founder of virtual care lab, CultureHub resident artist, and involved member of NAVEL.