Jason Waite: More-Than-Human Worlds and Interspecies Infrastructure
In this talk, curator Jason Waite introduces More-Than-Human Worlds and Interspecies Infrastructure, a multi-year collaboration between five international artists and researchers from the Department of Ecological Anthropology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. The project culminates in an exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum and the Science and Art Gallery of the Czech Academy of Sciences in autumn 2027. The lecture in English will take place at 6 pm.
- Date
- 20 October 2026, from 18:00
- Location
- AVU Veletržní – Black Hall, Veletržní 61, Prague 7
Humans make up less than one percent of life on Earth, yet we know remarkably little about the beings we share the planet with, or about the hidden structures that make our lives depend on theirs. In this talk, curator Jason Waite introduces More-Than-Human Worlds and Interspecies Infrastructure, a multi-year collaboration between five international artists and researchers from the Department of Ecological Anthropology at the Czech Academy of Sciences. The project culminates in an exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum and the Science and Art Gallery of the Czech Academy of Sciences in autumn 2027.
Waite treats infrastructure as two things at once: the material systems that organise social life and the ideas that hold that order in place. Drawing on his curatorial work in sites of crisis, including the collective Don’t Follow the Wind inside the Fukushima exclusion zone, he looks at how artists and anthropologists studying wild boar, birds, wastescapes, zoos and microbial decomposition are making these overlooked worlds visible. He also asks what interspecies co-determination might look like in practice, and how new alliances between humans and other creatures could make repair and care a shared, collective project.
Jason Waite is a curator and writer based in Oxford and Tokyo whose work looks to sites of crisis for radical imaginaries and new ways of living and working together, including as part of the collective Don’t Follow the Wind, which runs an ongoing project inside the Fukushima exclusion zone. He has curated projects at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Art in General, New York, and Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, holds a PhD from the University of Oxford where he teaches History of Art at St. Anne's College, and is the editor of Art Review Oxford.