Specufabula is a neologism posed by Helen Palmer in her article “Speculative Taxonomies”. It refers to speculative fabulation that can be applied to taxonomic systems in order for new worlds and materialisms to be imagined in the context of diverse epistemes and transversality. The artwork in this project engages with a speculative approach to system-making through the methodology and content of collection. Mobilising recognizable aesthetics rooted in museological and scientific histories, the artist injects poetics into the rigidity of classification systems in order to question how knowledge is codified within them. Visual aesthetics and poetry enable each piece to explore the physical and conceptual history of my collected natural objects through an imaginative lens.
Palmer, Helen. "Speculative Taxonomies", Philosophy Today, 2020. DOI: doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2020128314
Specufabula is a neologism posed by Helen Palmer in her article “Speculative Taxonomies”. It refers to speculative fabulation that can be applied to taxonomic systems in order for new worlds and materialisms to be imagined in the context of diverse epistemes and transversality. The artwork in this project engages with a speculative approach to system-making through the methodology and content of collection. Mobilising recognizable aesthetics rooted in museological and scientific histories, the artist injects poetics into the rigidity of classification systems in order to question how knowledge is codified within them. Visual aesthetics and poetry enable each piece to explore the physical and conceptual history of my collected natural objects through an imaginative lens.
Palmer, Helen. "Speculative Taxonomies", Philosophy Today, 2020. DOI: doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2020128314