Caitlin Berrigan’s Imaginary Explosions draws upon geology, embodied knowledges, and technoscience to investigate how deep time and interspecies communication might assist us in radical planetary transformation. The long-term project is composed of episodic videos, sculpture, and an artist book, calling into collaboration artists and scholars whose real-life work pushes the limits of science and culture. Departing from the present into a speculative fiction, the cosmology explores what other presents and futures become possible once we begin to think beyond the framework of the human. At Human Resources, Berrigan’s work offers a prompt for invited artists and scholars, whose research similarly takes up queer and decolonial paradigms in relation to place and landscape, to share their own writing and video in dialogue. Urgent considerations and connections around ecological catastrophes, biopolitics, and structural violence, and their impact on individual and collective bodies emerge as the presentations consider how we can prioritize other ways of conceiving and inhabiting our world. Caitlin Berrigan will read from her book Imaginary Explosions and further texts; Patrick Staff will read their poem, On Venus; Sara Mameni will read from her text; Lily Benson will lead an archaeological hypnosis session; Suzy Halajian will read her text Water, Trash, and Protest; Daniela Lieja Quintanar will read from Carolina Caycedo’s Serpent River Book, followed by a screening of Caycedo’s video, Apparations. Organized by Suzy Halajian