Mat Keel: Triggering the Plantation Unconscious
October 19
Through archival research, experimental media practices and sited interviews with foragers in urban forests along the Gulf Coast, Mat Keel traces connections between plantation afterlives and contemporary ecological relationships. His research is grounded in contemporary theories of trauma to explore how divergent racialized ecological subjectivities are assembled through layered disruptions to nature, time and space resulting from plantation form, dispossession and historical changes to labor and landscape.
About Mat Keel:
Mat is pursuing a PhD in Anthropology/Geography with a secondary MA in Philosopy at LSU. He also makes art and recently co-founded and now runs Yes We Cannibal, a locally and globally enmeshed anti-profit collaborative meat space for new art, thought and encounters in Baton Rouge with his partner Liz Lessner.
Lousiana State University / Yes We Cannibal