In Conversation: Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump
January 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
In conjunction with A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air
Wednesday, January 22, 2026 | 12–1 PM
Emerson Contemporary
25 Avery Street, Boston, MA 02111
Join artists Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump for an intimate conversation about their innovative practices of collaboration with the natural world.
Rajotte will discuss her work with bio-sonification and how she enables trees to generate their own sonic landscapes, including her installation Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz, which translates forest communication into immersive audiovisual experience. Crump will share insights into her process of working with materials as co-creators, exploring how stones, beetles, and other elements inform the artistic outcome.
Together, they’ll explore questions at the heart of A Sentient Land: How do we share authorship with non-human collaborators? What does it mean to translate on behalf of materials? How can art deepen our empathy and connection across species?
This conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from two artists reimagining the relationship between maker and material, challenging us to consider the agency of the more-than-human world.
Free and open to the public
No registration required
