Travelling Plants

Lina is an independent art historian and curator with two decades experience in arts management. Since 2009, Lina has worked on multi-layered projects that highlighted plural approaches, with a focus on inclusivity and collaboration in public arts engagement. It has resulted in interconnected bodies of research and curation, that bring together diverse voices, modes of expression, and interfaces for dialogue. The focus areas of her research extend to projects with arts education, printmaking history and practice, the documentation of living traditions and folk arts in India, and environmental consciousness in the arts. She sees herself as a mediator and culture worker, connecting dots, ideas and people. In 2020, she registered a consultancy- LVAC- as a means to engage formally with a broader sphere of organisations and collaborators.

Her ongoing engagements include ‘Goa Familia’, archival photography project with Serendipity Arts Foundation and ‘Sunaparanta Art Initiator Lab’, Goa (S.A.I.L) mentoring project. She led the development of ‘Sandooka – The Living Museum of Kodava Culture,’ a virtual project commissioned by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) with whom she concluded an Archival Museum Fellowship for Goa Chitra Museum (2018-19). She is Associate Curator with ARTPORT_making waves – global arts program for climate-action. She is associated as Visiting Faculty at the School of Design and Innovation, RV University, Bangalore and Visiting Professor at the Trans-Disciplinary University (TDU) Bangalore. She has curated numerous exhibitions with galleries across India and contributes to publications on art history and contemporary cultural practices. Lina has a BFA in printmaking from Bangalore University and MFA in Art History from the same institution.

Karolina Grzywnowicz (Germany)is a Berlin-based visual artist whose work bridges contemporary art, research, and activism. Her works deal with plants in social and political context, often of a violent nature. She perceives landscape as a living archive in which traces of past events are recorded. Her methodology involves working with specialists across various disciplines e.g. botanists, soil researchers, hydrologists and local people to allow for a space of interaction and exchange of knowledge. She is interested in the practices of weak resistance, everyday activities, seemingly unnoticed gestures that have the power to resist oppression. She works in various media: installation, sculpture, film; she creates situations and art interventions. Her works have been exhibited widely. She holds a degree in Comparative Literature.

Rashmimala (India) is an artist based in Varodara, who engages with the interface of ecology and art – drawing from a variety of sources such as museum collections, archival documents, academic scholarship, field data and the genre of botanical art. She has exhibited widely, participating in both group and solo shows, one of which focused on representing minor local plants along the genre of botanical illustrations, natural history documentations and historical anecdotes. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master's degree in Painting, in addition to a Masters in Art Criticism.

Waylon D’souza (India) is a Goa-based transdisciplinary artist and designer with a research-driven practice, collating principles of education, philosophy, and culture to iterate pan-disciplinary experiments in sustainability science. He has trained in a matrix of symbiotic disciplines including fine arts, animation, aquaponics, permaculture, and industrial design at various institutes. Waylon’s experimental practice moves into varied mediums, forms of expression, and articulations, reorganising elements to produce novel manifestations. His practise proposes environmental solutions through materially symbolic, and highly conceptual visual works.

Wendy Therméa (Reunion Island, France) is a visual artist who lives and works in Reunion Island, where she spent her childhood surrounded by nature. Influenced and marked by the diversity of its territories, whether terrestrial or aquatic, she engages in a dialogue between the landscape and her own body. In this way, she constantly questions the link(s) we can create with our environment. Combining metaphor and poetry, the artist draws inspiration from her own history, the cycle of life and the movements of nature. She works mainly with video installations inviting the viewer to a sensory experience, whether auditory, olfactory and/or visual. She obtained a DNSEP, a master’s equivalent degree in the arts in 2022, participating in a group exhibition and two-month residency the same year.