you are variations: Ecologies of Translation Start Date: Tuesday 3/3/2020 — End Date: Tuesday 3/3/2020 Admission:free you are variations: Ecologies of Translation you are variations addresses a vital, urgent and intricate matter of concern: Can we learn to listen to a tree? And if so how? The research studies the water cycle of trees. It processes environmental data on sap flow from scientific research on climate change, transposing it into a musical score and enacting it collaboratively. Attention is drawn to the complex water-cycling and sophisticated energy balance of trees under changing environmental conditions. Its queries are relevant for contemporary scientific research concerned with climate futures, as well as questions regarding art’s stance and the contemporary locus of its transformative power. The project proposes that we face these challenges together. The research links environmental with social and mental ecology. The aggregation of disciplines, languages, and natures that are unfamiliar to each other reveals difference. In the attempt to bridge this difference, translation incites a gap, a transformation and a mediation. you are variations plays with this folding process of translation, apprehending it not as an exclusively human practice, but as the fabric of relations: an “ecology of translation”. Location: 800 Chestnut St Russian Hill San Francisco Contact: Kat exhibitions@sfai.edu URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/you-are-variations-ecologies-of-translation-tickets-91220453833