{"id":276,"date":"2016-02-11T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikisperou.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2020-02-18T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T00:59:32","slug":"the-colonised-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"The colonised body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>medium: installation; textile, glass vessels, sprouted seeds, Winogradski columns<\/p>\n\n\n<p>colonialism, bio-colonialism, human microbiome, biodiversity, antibiotic resistance<\/p>\n<p><em>Colonised Body<\/em>, (installation detail) is informed by colonisation of plant and human territories. Deforestation of pristine regions by early settlers precipitated ecological problems; soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, invasive species and feral mono-cultures. Historic clearing of botanic diversity required remediation via re-vegetation. Similarly, the clearing of beneficial microbiota from human bodies via imprudent antibiotic use and the associated problem of antibiotic resistance may be re-mediated via a \u2018re-wilding\u2019 of corporeal terrains. Associate Professor Gulia Pacini in <em>Arboreal Attachments<\/em>, 2016, suggests, \u201cPlanting in our own gardens can help us envision new encounters and non-anthropocentric interactions with all kinds of non-human organisms.\u201d Via intimate interactions with plants, Sperou teases out symbiotic connections and parallels with other organisms and environments.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>SALA Festival South Australian Medical Health and Research Institute (SAHMRI) Residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/nikisperou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/colonised-body-1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"376\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nikisperou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/colonised-body-1-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nikisperou.com\/?attachment_id=376\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/colonised-body-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/colonised-body-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/colonised-body-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 medium: installation; textile, glass vessels, sprouted seeds, Winogradski columns colonialism, bio-colonialism, human microbiome, biodiversity, antibiotic resistance Colonised Body, (installation detail) is informed by colonisation of plant and human territories. Deforestation of pristine regions by early settlers precipitated ecological problems; soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, invasive species and feral mono-cultures. Historic clearing of botanic diversity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikisperou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}