Join WashU Sam Fox School for the Public Lecture Series in 2025. These events are free and open to the public.
Multidisciplinary artist and scholar Beatriz Cortez will discuss her explorations of simultaneous and converging temporalities with a focus on human–nonhuman collaborations and potential imaginaries of the future contained in seeds. She examines the concept of untimely communities, or communities formed out of joint with time, and the possibility of forming communities with other living begins and with matter. Cortez’s sculpture Chultún El Semillero (2022) is featured in the exhibition Seeds: Containers of a World to Come.