This video documents the installation of the four-channel video work, A Wardian Case (2021), in Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux's exhibition Terrarium, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada, 2022.
A Wardian Case introduces the flora of Te Kawau Tumaro o Toi Kawau Island, home to Sir George Grey from 1862 to 1888. Grey’s shadow remains through the exotic plants and animals he introduced in pursuit of imperial prestige and prosperity. In quiet collaboration with the plants that endure, plant cell signals are sonified in chorus and cacophony. In hearing them, Kawau Island’s botanical transformation is traced and Grey’s legacy is unsettled.
