Amber Stucke’s Talking to Plants is a sound art installation inspired by knowledge of how Ojibwe people talk to plants for medicine as well as by John Cage’s Works of Chance Operations and Indeterminacy. Each sound piece placed onto vinyl is created in response to two questions: what is the idea of a plant and how would you talk to it? The edition of six records will alternate and play in the gallery on a set schedule.

The Sensitives are copper sculptures studded with oxidizing suckers. Each sucker is touch-sensitive (echoing the chemo-tactile nature of an octopus’ sensory system) and plays a tone when pressed. The sequence of tones derives from a fragment of an octopus’ genetic material. The iterative score generates an expanded signaling: a conversation that operates outside of, but parallel to, human syntax. Sculptures can be activated by visitors when gallery staff are present.