AIR LAB

AIR LAB
Will Wilson

Since 2005, Wilson has been creating a series of artworks entitled Auto Immune Response, which takes as its subject the quixotic relationship between a post-apocalyptic Diné man and the devastatingly beautiful but toxic environment he inhabits. The series is an allegorical investigation of the extraordinarily rapid transformation of indigenous lifeways, consequential dis-ease, and strategies of response that enable cultural survival. This iteration of the Auto Immune Response series featured an installation of a hogan greenhouse, the Auto Immune Response LAB, in which indigenous food plants are grown. This project served as a pollinator, creating formats for exchange and production that questioned and challenged the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround us.