SNAILS IN THE FUTURE PERFECT
SNAILEIDOLIA | Installation View | Earth Day Snail Safari with Matthew Wills | A Confluence of Snails | Snails in the Future Perfect | pdf press release | On Hyperallergic
May 27th, 2023
On Zoom, 4pm EST (Honolulu: 10:00am, Europe: 22:00/10:00pm)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85280416133 Meeting ID: 852 8041 6133
In conjunction with David Colosi’s exhibition Snaileidolia at Open Source, David has invited snail and slug specialists to discuss our relationship to the mollusks we share our world with. Each speaker has a unique relationship to gastropods and will introduce how they work with them. Join us as the people who care for snails help us care for them as well.
Participants:
David Colosi’s solo projects have been exhibited at Council St. and Highways (Los Angeles), Galerie Catherine Bastide (Brussels), FRAC Bretagne and Musee des Morlaix (France) and Cueto Project (New York). He has been an artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works and LMCC (New York), Le Centre Du Monde (France), VARS (California), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). Colosi’s short fiction has appeared in The Wisconsin Review, The Offbeat, Permafrost, Intercourse and Konch and his poetry in From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002; Obsidian; and the Los Angeles Times. His books include Miss Pumpernickel Bread, Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature Part 1, Letters to Poly, Laughing Blood, Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions, and The Life and Thoughts of a Retired Apostrophe. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2009, and he produces the Napping Wizard Sessions podcast.
Dr. Norine W. Yeung, PhD is currently the Senior Curator of Malacology at the Bishop Museum. Along with colleagues, she is leading a team of researchers and students in developing critical data needed to understand and conserve Hawaii’s remaining land snails while combating the ongoing invasion of non-native snails.
Dr. Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch ecologist and evolutionary biologist based at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, who also holds a chair in evolution at Leiden University. His research deals with the diversification of groups of closely-related species, in land snails and beetles, and the questions of how and why different body-shapes evolve rapidly in such evolutionary ‘radiations’. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1994 on the evolution of land snails from Greece, then did two postdoctoral stints at Wageningen University and from 2000 to 2006 worked as an associate professor at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Malaysian Borneo, where he still holds a research associateship. He has authored over 100 scientific publications in professional journals such as Trends in Ecology and Evolution, The Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and Nature.
