6.5 Minutes With... | Desiree McCray
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Desiree McCray, a womanist scholar, explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and Black religion and culture. She advocates for "slow knowing" and "slow care" in education, public theology, and activism, emphasizing intentionality, community, and radical empathy. McCray describes slow knowing as a radical act of resistance against the frantic pace of modern life, promoting rest and mindful engagement. Slow care, she explains, involves resisting the urge to overload students with information, instead fostering an inclusive space for critical engagement. She highlights the value of...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Mark Freeland
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, discusses the cyclical nature of time in indigenous worldviews, particularly among the Anishinaabe. He contrasts this with the linear time concept in Western cultures, emphasizing the importance of place and relationships in indigenous understanding. Freeland highlights the challenges of translating indigenous concepts into Western languages and the need for dialogical knowledge production. He also addresses the intergenerational process of decolonization,...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Yevgeniya Kaganovich
6.5 Minutes With... C21
In this episode, Jennifer Johung, director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, spends 6.5 minutes with Yevgeniya Kaganovich, a Belarus-born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based artist, whose hybrid practice encompasses jewelry and metalsmithing, sculpture, and installation. She is also a professor at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Kaganovich discusses her on-going projects and installations at the Lyden Sculpture Garden and explains the implications of tree time, earth time, and human time within the context of C21’s theme of Slow Knowing. Her...
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6.5 Minutes With... | Jennifer Jordan
6.5 Minutes With... C21
UWM Professor of Sociology, Jennifer Jordan, talks about her book project, Before Craft Beer: Lost Landscapes of Forgotten Hops, and the importance of studying the history of the interactions between commodity, craft, and landscape.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Mishiikenh Altiman
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Mishiikenh (Vernon) Altiman talks about his role at the Electa Quinney Center at UWM, working with trees and maple sugaring, as well as alternatives to "trust."
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6.5 Minutes With... | Leah Penniman
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Leah Penniman, co-founder and co-director of Soul Fire Farm, talks about Black Earth Wisdom - Penniman's newest collection of essays and interviews that speaks to the multidimensional scientific and spiritual expertise of Black environmentalists.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Rayna Andrews
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Continuing the conversation about the role of trust in food justice efforts, C21 talks with Rayna Andrews, Executive Director, Advancement & Engagement for Food for Health in Milwaukee.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Psyche Williams-Forson
6.5 Minutes With... C21
American Studies professor Psyche Williams-Forson talks about her most recent book project and the importance of digging deep into understanding individual food choices.
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6.5 Minutes With... | Josh Sbicca
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Sociologist Josh Sbicca talks through definitions of food justice and the work of the Prison Agriculture Lab to bring further context to the philosophies behind food and trust.
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6.5 Minutes With... | James Levy
6.5 Minutes With... C21
Related to the Trust in Context Roundtable, public historian James Levy talks about the power of history, sharing farming stories, and the Wisconsin Lands We Share initiative.
info_outlineIn this episode, Jennifer Johung, director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, spends 6.5 minutes with Yevgeniya Kaganovich, a Belarus-born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based artist, whose hybrid practice encompasses jewelry and metalsmithing, sculpture, and installation. She is also a professor at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Kaganovich discusses her on-going projects and installations at the Lyden Sculpture Garden and explains the implications of tree time, earth time, and human time within the context of C21’s theme of Slow Knowing. Her collaborative research and art project, Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, explores three archetypes – trees, paper, and chairs – through their own unique perspectives. She asks speculative questions in search of physical answers. Like, does paper remember being a tree?
Check out the links below for more information about C21’s collaborative with Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, Kaganovich’s Tree Intuit Chair project, and further reading about the agency and perspective of non-human objects.
Lyden Sculpture Garden Events:
In Tree Intuits Chair, artist Yevgeniya Kaganovich grows saplings into sculptural chairs, imagining how a tree might perceive its own transformation into furniture.
Artist Yevgeniya Kaganovich and Lynden land manager, Robert Kaleta, lead a walk exploring the symbiotic relationship between trees and mushrooms.
Recommendations for Further Reading:
Author Jane Bennett argues that non-human objects, from trees to trash, possess a form of vitality or agency, challenging anthropocentric views of materiality. She calls for a political and ethical shift, urging us to recognize and engage with the vitality of matter to address ecological and social issues.
Author Ian Bogost explores the idea of "object-oriented ontology," which asserts that objects, whether human or non-human, exist independently of human perception and have their own experiences. He advocates for a shift in philosophy to consider the subjective experience of all things, encouraging us to think about the world from the perspective of objects themselves.