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Book presentation Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga at RADIUS CCA

What: Book presentation Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga
When: Sunday 20 September, 14:00–17:00 hr
Where: RADIUS CCA Water tower, Kalverbos 22, 2611XW, Delft
Organized by: RADIUS CCA en Valiz
Entry: Free, but spots are limited. RSVP here!
Language: English

Following the recent release of the publication Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga, edited by Frances Cannon and published in the Art & Earth Series, RADIUS wholeheartedly invites you to an afternoon on queer ecologies, with presentations and a panel discussion with different contributors of the book. The aim of this event is to, alongside this new publication, bring together artists, scholars, curators, philosophers, activists, scientists, and every other being interested in discussing gender variety in more-than-human modes of being. 

PROGRAMME
14:00–14:30: Doors open
14:30–15:00: Presentation of the publication Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga by editor Frances Cannon
15:00–15:20: Presentation 'Becoming Gynandromorph' by Lorena Solís Bravo
15:20–15:40: Presentation 'Queer Gardens' by Joost Emmerik
15:40–16:30: Conversation between Lorena Solís Bravo, Joost Emmerik, and Frances Cannon, moderated by Eli Witteman
16:30–17:00: Drinks reception

Franky (Frances) Cannon is a writer, editor, educator, and artist. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, a Research Associate of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press, 2019), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press, 2017), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press, 2016), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press, 2024), Willow and the Storm, (Green Writers Press, 2025), Vernal Thaw (Set Margins’ Press, 2026), and Queer Flora, Fauna, Funga (Valiz Press, 2026). Her work can also be found in journals and magazines, including The New York Times. Franky curates the digital publication queerflora.org.

Joost Emmerik (1979) is a garden and landscape architect and head of the Master’s programme in Landscape Architecture at the Amsterdam Academy. A firm belief in the evoking power of gardens and a need for them in this day and age form the basis of his work. The garden as a room, not belonging to mankind, but to nature.

Lorena Solís Bravo is a Peruvian artist based in Amsterdam whose practice merges scientific research, speculative thought, and poetry into films, performances, sculptures, and texts. Their work explores identity within the modern-colonial subject by tracing symbiotic relations with other species, dissolving boundaries between human and non-human. Using tools such as 3D modeling, CT scanning, and electron microscopy alongside alternative narratives, Solís Bravo critiques the hegemony of Western science and reimagines it from decolonial perspectives. Rooted in rigorous research, their practice unfolds into the poetic, the sensorial, and the dreamlike. www.lorenasolisbravo.com