Saturday, March 1st, 2025
Presented in conjunction with Alicia’s solo exhibition, METABOLIC RIFTS: TOUCH MEMORY
on view at Telematic, ⁠February 8th - April 5th, 2025⁠

Metabolic Rifts: Touch Memory is a multi-channel video installation, which works to redress the rupture in our relationship to the natural world, by playfully granting agency to plants - the artists’ non-human collaborators - and addressing them with the personal attention of a lover, a child, a parent, or a friend: kin.⁠
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Marthine Satris is the associate publisher at Heyday, the Berkeley-based nonprofit, nonfiction press dedicated to stories and books about California’s history, natural world, culture, and peoples. Her own writing has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Flyway Journal, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland.⁠
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Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist based in the land we currently call San Francisco, she/they practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. Escott’s work is informed by how we each are intimately negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate chaos, mass-extinction and the social and political unrest this rapid change, unprocessed grief and latent anxiety produces.⁠
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