People, Plants, Pleasure: A Conversation with Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo (they/them), a contemporary artist based in Hong Kong who works with plants, is featured in the exhibition “Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China,” which highlights how Chinese gardens have served as transformative spaces. Bo will join Phillip Bloom, June and Simon K.C. Li Curator of the Chinese Garden and Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies, for a conversation about the artist’s wide-ranging practice. For the past decade, Zheng has created films, installations, drawings, and exercises that allow them to develop deeper, more meaningful, and more pleasurable relationships with plants. These practices ultimately question the ethics of human-centered modes of artmaking and being.