TransHuman Saunter is a geolocative artwork that documents the entanglements of four women artists with the multispecies ecosystem of the Indian Banyan Tree. These entanglements constitute re-created and re-imagined narratives of their relationship with the nonhuman colonised Indian Subcontinent being: Indian Banyan Tree. The work further builds its foundations on themes of multispecies relationships with the “nonhuman” Banyan Tree, colonialism, mythologies, migration, oppressions, the artists’ own micro-narratives of being ‘lesser’ humans and everyday living in Australia. This is further juxtaposed with human-planetary crises of climate change, forest fires, a pandemic: all psychosis of disjointed human/nonhuman entanglements. This artwork digitally locates itself in Australia and on the Indigenous land of the Turrbal and Yuggera people. In engaging with the Indian Banyan Tree, the artists hope to provide a space to transcend and disrupt colonial forms of knowing so as to heal and repair. The eventual work will be a contribution to the pluralistic ways of knowing through an evocation of the narratives of the unseen: the “lesser”-humans, the “non”-humans, and the “non”-beings.
The project is in collaboration with CGeomap.
The project is being showcased during BAD festival (8th May 2021), Uroboros festival (15th and 16th May 2021) and After Progress Exhibition (September 2021).
| Artists | Agapetos Fa’aleava |
| Creative Producer | Kavita Gonsalves |
| Concept | Kavita Gonsalves |
| Project Advisors | Professor Marcus Foth |
| CGeomap Platform | Fred Adams |
| Project Sponsor | QUT More than Human Futures Research Group |