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A conversation about Plastic with designer Shahar Livne and environmental humanities scholar Heather Davis.
Shahar Livne is an award winning conceptual material designer. Livne's lifelong fascinations in nature, biology, science, and philosophy developed into an intuitive material experimentation way of work during her degree studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Shahar brings life to unique stories through objects and installations centered around materials as carriers of narratives. Some of Livne's projects deal with obscure materials such as blood, man-made fossils, crystallization and more, today we are going to be focussing on plastic, and Shahar has put me in touch with Heather Davis who I am thrilled to have here as our second guest today
Heather Davis is Assistant Professor and Director of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities, media studies, and visual culture, she is interested in how the saturation of fossil fuels has shaped contemporary culture. Davis is the author of over 80 articles, book chapters, reviews, and catalogue essays. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022) traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable.
LINKS
Shahar Livne: https://www.instagram.com/_shaharlivnedesignstudio_/
https://www.shaharlivnedesign.com/
Shahar Livne, Metamorphism: https://www.shaharlivnedesign.com/metamorphism
Heather Davis: https://heathermdavis.com/
Heather Davis, Plastic Matter: https://www.dukeupress.edu/plastic-matter
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