Alice McCabe (UK) and Amy Ash (CA) have been collaborating on creative
projects since 2017. Their collaborative work, under the moniker of
Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes, looks to the characteristics, language,
mythology and historical contexts of plants for guidance. With plants as their
mentors, Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes translate plant wisdom through
varied methodologies as a means to both disrupt systems and discuss
difficult topics that resonate into the realm of human communities. Previous
projects have focused on immigration, queer ecologies, and disrupting
colonial histories.
Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes last worked together in 2019 through the
Cultivar Residency, where they were hosted by @museumoftheflatearth on
Fogo Island, Newfoundland, off the Atlantic Coast of Canada. The Museum of
the Flat Earth is an offshoot of the absurdist conceptual platform, the
Canadian Flat Earth Society, which was founded by Leo Ferrari, Alden Nowlan
and Ray Fraser in the 70s. The Museum of the Flat Earth in Fogo Island, is
run by Kay Burns who uses Flat Earth Theory as a playful curatorial platform
and means of promoting critical thought, investigation and research in and via art.

Plas Bodfa is a 100 year old manor home transformed into a gallery, art space and a community activator that creates unique, inclusive, creative projects with roots on the Isle of Anglesey and branches throughout Wales
and the world.

Plas Bodfa aims to bring together people of different ages,
knowledge bases, interests and backgrounds to share with each other, learn
from each other’s experiences and create something new collectively.

Adventitious Routes & Rhizomes look forward to presenting both new and re-fathomed works at window 135.

Many thanks to Alice & Amy. Thank you to everyone that came for gin & cake. It was a blast.