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Tinkering with Heirloom Futures: The Journey of a Few Grains of Rice
The heirloom rice cooked at RiceBar embodies complex issues about modernity, climate change and the Anthropocene.
Elaine Gan is an artist-scholar and Faculty Fellow in the Center for Experimental Humanities at NYU. She co-edited the anthology "Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene" and curated an art and science exhibition titled "DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking."