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Visual artist Karen Lofgren will be in conversation with Psychedelics and Spirituality program leads, Paul Gillis-Smith and Jeffrey Breau, on her recent publication, emBRUJAda: charms for the living (2023).  

As a visual artist, Lofgren engages with epistemologies beyond Western European colonialism, and as a gardener, Lofgren lives these epistemologies through inter-species conversation and planting medicine gardens across the world. Her work is driven by an interest in fostering a dialogue across the Americas from a feminist and decolonial view, and emBRUJAda functions as a window into this dialogue. In both English and Spanish, emBRUJAda pulls together annotated artwork, photographic collage of exhibitions and studio spaces, and prose on sentience, ritual, curses and cures, and voice. The book is punctuated by essays and correspondence from Lofgren, alongside Mexican vocalist and performer Carmina Escobar; Peruvian feminist art historian, curator, and writer Florencia Portocarrero; and Dutch curator and writer Marjolein van der Loo.  
As part of this book talk, Lofgren will touch on her practice of somatic listening that plays a role in her work as both a gardener and a sculptor. This conversation will explore the import of inter-species relationships and the role that “psychedelics” may play in opening these conversations with other-than-human persons.  
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