In Wight's performance, she reveals how she has discovered that plants dominate both the bottom and the top of the food chain, constantly experimenting on us with debilitating muscle relaxants and neurotoxins, and that they have undoubtedly masterminded our evolution in order to make us their fated caretakers. Basketry is one of the oldest art forms in any culture, and a dynamic relationship exists between the materials and the intended use of a basket. There are structural differences as well, since a basket used for digging clams is quite different from one used for storing acorns. Shuck pounds white ash splints to separate the growth rings of the ash wood, which results in nearly transparent weaving materials. After all those years of getting pricked and prodded at health clinics, find out what happens to your blood when it finally leaves you and enters the laboratory-the laboratory of today and the laboratory of the future, given the incredible pace of advances in genetic technology.
All events are free with museum admission.
Dog Tails is the story of poor, unfortunate Bruno, a pure-bred German shepherd who was born with a Chihuahua's skinny tail. As we accompany them, we gain an understanding of people who are different from us. The production, starring New Pickle Circus performers Aloysia Gavre-Warham and Bill Forchion, was commissioned by the Exploratorium's Performance Program in conjunction with Diving into the Gene Pool. It is free with museum admission.