“…the value of the animal archive goes beyond merely being a repository for collected specimens, biological materials, and digitized multimedia. These archives invite us to contemplate alternative futures, to bring past histories of long-gone species to the present and transmit their stories across generations.”
Eleonor Botoman
Eleonor Botoman (she/they) is a poet-critic based in New York City. She currently is a graduate student in New York University’s Experimental Humanities (XE) program, studying environmental justice and climate resiliency in museum and art institutional curation, education, and infrastructure.
“Rather than a singular, verifiable truth, we understand the production of knowledge as occurring through a series of encounters. For this issue, we extended an open invitation to seven contributors to respond to the themes of art, archives and the environment.”