Sliwinska, Basia2024-10-162024-10-162023-12-102617-3255PURE: 101455712PURE UUID: 97009945-958b-462c-89be-217c6f3094deORCID: /0000-0003-4428-567X/work/148561627http://hdl.handle.net/10362/173602UIDB/00417/2020 UIDP/00417/2020Thinking with Joanna Rajkowska's project Rhizopolis (2021), conceived as an underground habitat for species that survived a series of cataclysms, this essay reimagines the home as a collective space for communities of care, generative of accountability, co-dependencies, and co-responsibilities. The installation created from tree stumps and their roots is a futuristic scenography for a non-existent science fiction film. It invites reflection on if and how interspecies symbiotic bonds can be fostered to account for co-nutrition, co-growth and co-existence for all bodies-human, non-human and other-than-human. Within the overarching framework of ethics of care and feminist new materialist discourse foregrounding co-existence and making entanglements, the essay engages with Rhizopolis to interrogate an alternative domestic space. Does Rajkowska offer us a model for a communal transspecies refugium guided by love, care, and respect? The artist's hypothetical scenario has transformative potential, imagining a home hospitable to all bodies post Anthropocene.255657379engContemporary artHomeEthics of careRefugiaEnvironmental justiceNew materialismsjournal article10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a18https://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-14972023000100018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en