Specufabula: Thesis Project

Specufabula is a neologism posed by Helen Palmer in her article “Speculative Taxonomies”, referring to speculative fabulation that can be applied to taxonomic systems in order for new worlds to be imagined in the context of diverse epistemes. I engage with a this approach to system-making through the methodology of collection. Through installation and print I reference archival, scientific and museological practices while injecting poetics to investigate how knowledge is formed within them.