Title: Golden Snail Opera: The More-than-human Performane of Friendly Farming on Taiwan's Lanyang Plain
Written by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai, Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text. This piece is a multi species enactment of experimental natural history considering the "golden treasure snail," imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of rice culture. Whereas farmers in the Green Revolution's legacy use poison to exterminate snails, a new generation of "friendly farmers" attempts to insert farming as one of many multispecies life ways within the paddy.
Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA).
Isabelle Carbonell is PhD Student for Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and Docuementary Filmmaker.
For more information, please contact cult@ucsc.edu