Letters to a 19th century grain of wheat

Lucy Davis

Letters to a 19th century grain of wheat

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Abstract

This is a selection of letters written to a wheat grain that had been found in the straw as stuffi ng of a 133 year dead salt water crocodile shot at the mouth of the Serangoon river in Singapore in 1888. The letters and the grain were buried in Platåberget, adjacent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank in 2019 as one part of a gesture by The Migrant Ecologies Project.
main text by Lucy Davis; letters by Marian Pastor Roces, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Harriet Rabe von Froreich, Nils
Bubandt and Anna Tsing, Faisal Husni, Marietta Radomska

Original language	English
Article number	14
Pages (from-to)	189-209
Number of pages	20
Journal	Antennae
Volume	Uncontainable Natures VOl 1
Issue number	54
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Contemporary Art
Ecology
Visual Cultures
Decolonial
Southeast Asia

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Letters to a 19th century grain of wheat

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