Plant Life and Imperialism: Histories of Cannabis in British India

Are histories of social structures, imperial systems, and the subjecthood of peoples not also histories of plant life? Taking one plant genus, that modern botany labels cannabis, this talk explores how and why we should embrace the contiguity between human and nonhuman life as a basic condition for narrating history itself. In British India, across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, different forms of cannabis substances animated the history of working classes, gender, race, rural communities, and state formation in heterogeneous ways that also echoed the complex biochemistry and psychoactive variability of cannabis intoxicants. To understand the unfolding of modern British imperialism, the ways in which cannabis straddled its statuses as plant, commodity, substance, form, and matter can be crucial as it sheds important light on histories that have so far either remained out of focus or simply segregated from one another because of how colonial administrations produced categories to govern colonized spaces. This talk will introduce such histories and why and how they matter before suggesting what they contribute to the ongoing efforts of scholars to attend to the ways in which the supposed boundaries between humans, other species, and their environments have in fact remained thoroughly porous and vulnerable.

Obstacle Illusion: A Multimedia Performance

Obstacle Illusion is a multimedia performance incorporating ACVilla's digital films in tandem with Thollem's solo electric performance. The result engages our personal and collective consciousness through visual and sonic allegories, riddles and recontextualizations. "Together the duo weave an aural and visual tapestry to dazzle the senses." (The Paper, Albuquerque)

Anniversary Party & Ribbon Cutting

Furniture Gallery by Mattress Mike and Miss Daisy's Consignment & Auction House official with ribbon cutting and signage on the building.

Sketching in the Galleries

All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials.

Sketching in the Galleries

All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions. Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials.

Couples

Parallel Stories with Rachel Cusk, Siemon Scamell-Katz, and Andrew Winer

Jesse Colin Young – The Highway Troubadour Tour

PCI & Double Tee Concerts present Jesse Colin Young – The Highway Troubadour Tour, with Jazzie Young, on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 8 PM. Young has influenced and shaped the character of American music for over 50 years. The artist had a serious solo career showcasing his vocals and guitar work with 2 records before he formed his folk-rock band, The Youngbloods, in 1965. His style is now considered Americana, but in fact it's his unique fusion of folk, rock, jazz, and blues, with an emphasis on his extraordinary voice, that makes his signature sound.

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