Cyberfeminism Index
RAUM::STATION
Rian Ciela Hammond
ABOUT CONTACT
Refusal and Autonomy within Colonially Mediated Molecular Relations is a text co-authored with Dr. Krystal Tsosie for the collective monograph, Synthetic Becoming "This contribution begins with the script, screenshots, and visuals from Rian Ciela Hammond’s recent short film Root Picker—a queer nature documentary centered around wild yams who were historically the main feedstock gloally for the production of steroid hormone pharmaceuticals. Through this ecological, historical excavation, hormones are underst
On view in DIFFERENCE MACHINES (Oct 16th 2021 - January 16th 2022 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo NY) and Future Ecologies (Fall 2021 at Vox Populi of Philadelphia PA) Root Picker is a queer nature documentary focused on a family of wild yams found throughout the Americas. Footage of yams thriving in swampy wetland ecologies is viewed through screen interfaces mapping the steroid hormonal molecular transformations that occur between yam, fungal, and human bodies. On view for DIFFERENCE MACHINES
Cyberfeminism Index
RAUM::STATION
Rian Ciela Hammond