{"id":621,"date":"2022-10-03T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/?p=621"},"modified":"2022-10-03T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T23:33:21","slug":"kishkindha-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/kishkindha-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Kishkindha NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\">Kishkindha NY<\/a> imagines a transformation of Manhattan into a forest city, a city inhabited not only by human, but by non-human animals and other actants. Its inspiration is Kishkindha, a city in the Hindu epic <em>The Ramayana<\/em>, which is neither the ideal city nor the decadent\/evil city, but a city where the monkeys live in the forest, not quite forest and not quite city; a city which is not one. As a city that is not one, Kishkindha for us references Luce Irigeray&#8217;s landmark feminist essay &#8211; This sex which is not one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kishkindha NY<\/a> for us is about producing a post-human, post-anthropocentric imaginary in the form of speculative science fiction. It imagines a transformation of the fabric of Manhattan via a &#8220;beastie&#8221; that in part works with human intelligence and agency, and in part relies on non-human intelligence and agency, in particular that of the fungus and the octopus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/kishkindha-new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kishkindha NY<\/a> is expected to be exhibited at the ECC Time Space and Existence exhibit in the Palazzo Bembo in Venice during the summer of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kishkindha NY imagines a transformation of Manhattan into a forest city, a city inhabited not only by human, but by non-human animals and other actants. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}