Speculative Conceptual Strategies

<p>This interview with Giovanni Aloi explores the complexities of thinking about plant intelligence as a relational mode of being and a fundamental condition for life itself. While plant intelligence remains a sensitive and speculative topic—often challenging for artists to engage with—Aloi emphasizes that it is an ongoing, intrinsic process rather than an exception. He resists the idea of a fixed or formulaic aesthetics of the vegetal, highlighting the immense diversity of plant life that resists aesthetic condensation. Nevertheless, he finds value in speculative approaches, which, by embracing ambiguity, create space for more nuanced understandings of vegetal minds and the broader, more-than-human world of knowledge production.</p>