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Lola (aka Lauren) Blake is an artist from San Francisco currently based in Chicago. Engaging with biology, phenomenology, metaphysics, Posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, their work involves the use of audio, video, sculpture, performance, and art and technology. Blake has received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in San Francisco, Chicago, and Austria in various gallery exhibitions and performance events.
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Although coming from an artistic background, one of my greatest passions lies in micro and marine biology. Challenging Western science and epistemology, I engage with environmentally invaluable organisms as an evaluation of preexistent and potential interspecies intimacies. Rather than accepting explicitly Western modes of organization and empiricism, through ancestral, metaphysical, ideological, and interspecific methodologies I emphasize the evaluation and provision of science as it is culturally and environmentally informed. In other words, I prioritize how experience, comprehension, and knowledge influence practice, decision making, and representation. By encouraging (and simultaneously interrogating) the involvement of emotion and intuition in science, observation and experience become mutable, phenomena emerges, and inquiry remains eternal. Active and passive roles within relationships evolve to become interchangeable as all beings are seen as interdependent and biological hierarchies are displaced. Ultimately I am interested in how a transition to seeing personhood in nonhumans might guide us into a more fruitful, reciprocal future.