Zheng Bo & Elaine Gan: Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

As the 2020 Artist in Residence at the Gropius Bau, artist and theorist Zheng Bo explores how plants practice politics. The first phase of his research is shaped by conversations with experts in anthropology, ecology and philosophy, fostering questions to be investigated in later phases. In the fourth online conversation, Zheng Bo and Elaine Gan talked about rice, a flowering grass that feeds over half of the Earth’s human population.