Key Work: Shela Sheikh on “Wild Relatives”
18 November 2020
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Shela Sheikh will reflect upon Jumana Manna’s "Wild Relatives” (60 mins) as it relates to her own research. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. Following the path of this transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, a series of en- counters unfold a matrix of human and non-human lives between these two distant spots of the earth.
Read Shela Sheikh‘s article here.
Read Shela Sheikh‘s article here.