Lucia Monge

Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist, professor, and author currently living and working in Portland, Oregon. Her practice explores how people engage with other living beings through the intersection between art and science. For the past ten years she has organized Plantón Móvil, a yearly collaborative performance that takes the form of a “walking forest” and leads to the creation of public green areas. Monge's recent Unearthing Futures project, in partnership with artist/engineer Xin Liu and the MIT Media Lab, launched 125 potato seeds to the International Space Station on March 7, 2020. After 30 days in Low Earth Orbit, the Peruvian potatoes that travelled to space, were planted and grown by the artists on Earth

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