Of Plural Worlds
2025
Of Plural Worlds
2025
More Plural Worlds is a museum exhibit. In the first section, it compares contemporary mormon objects to Renaissance and colonial objects and shows how the American culture continues to use the same, centuries old methods to invent classical past for itself and to justify its interests in expansion. The second part of the exhibit shows another liberal, informed, contemporary attempt to do the same thing, to justify mormonism's problematic history. This time the effort comes through science and charting mormonism's feminist activism across two-hundred years.
We have just enough evidence to justify a theory of evolution, I know what I want to see. I have to contend with the clades, or evolutionary family trees, and the documentation we have that points to a story other than what I want to tell myself.
watch my performance at the Research Forum to learn more about emergency preparedness (and the activism it is an allegory for).