Visual artist and filmmaker Erin Johnson presents a screening and discussion of recent work exploring the entanglements of ecology, feminist science studies, and documentary practice. Johnson’s films and installations weave together speculative and archival research, performance, and personal narrative to reveal the colonial and heteronormative legacies embedded within scientific knowledge systems. Developed through collaborations with scientists, theorists, activists, and performers, these works—set everywhere from the United States’ largest nuclear weapons facility to one of the country’s largest herbaria—offer poetic meditations on survival, erasure, and possibility, while reimagining relationships to the natural world through a queer biocentric lens.

Image: Image: The Ferns, Erin Johnson, 2025