Ginger Brooks-Takahashi
Exsiccata Diaspora: Perilla
Perilla frutescens—known as kkaennip in Korean and shiso in Japanese—that explores how plants carry histories of migration, colonization, and cultural translation. The work draws from interviews, conversations, and collaborative encounters with seed savers, farmers, botanists, cooks, and others with relationships to Perilla, making use of these exchanges as both research material and generative approaches to my creative practice. Combining botanical research with embodied engagement in cultivation and cooking practices, Exsiccata Diaspora: Perilla places historical documentation in dialogue with contemporary plant knowledge.
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BIO
Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Her performance, installation, and site responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. Ginger’s work in foodways, foraging, and other folk traditions inform her practice of being rooted in place. Recently, she created Perilla People’s Garden for the 59th Carnegie International. She received her BA from Oberlin College, 1999; attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2007; and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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