{"id":4895,"date":"2025-10-30T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelics\/?page_id=4895"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:55:57","slug":"soraida-chindoy-and-helen-knowles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/soraida-chindoy-and-helen-knowles\/","title":{"rendered":"Soraida Chindoy and Helen Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contributor &#8211; Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-19.53.23-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4903\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1148\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/high-res-portrait-H-Knowles-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4899\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/high-res-portrait-H-Knowles-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/high-res-portrait-H-Knowles-1-268x300.jpeg 268w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/high-res-portrait-H-Knowles-1-913x1024.jpeg 913w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2025\/10\/high-res-portrait-H-Knowles-1-768x861.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><strong>Soraida Chindoy<\/strong> is an indigenous guardian, mother and activist who is working to defend the sacred Putumayo mountains. The territory is also home to 56 lagoons considered sacred by the Indigenous people and represents the meeting point between the Amazon rainforest and the Andes. This area is currently endangered by the establishment of a copper mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Helen Knowles<\/strong> is an artist working with expanded forms of moving image. Her practice examines the intersection of immateriality and life, focusing on responsibility, autonomy, and ethics in relation to technology, AI, and the non or more-than-human. Knowles explores the digital world through a planetary lens. Working collaboratively with indigenous communities, medics, scientists, lawyers, crypto specialists, midwives, childbirth professionals and inmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Colloquium Presentation: 14 November 2025, 3:30-5pm (Room G17, Mood Disorder Centre, Sir Henry Wellcome Building)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Indexed Beings<\/strong><\/strong> &#8211; Film Showing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indexed Beings is the second in a trilogy of artist films by Helen Knowles, developed through her practice-based PhD at Northumbria University.\u00a0Filmed in Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia, the work was made in partnership\u00a0with members of the indigenous\u00a0Kam\u00ebnts\u00e1, Inga, Cofan and Siona\u00a0communities and the Herbario Etnobot\u00e1nico del Piedemonte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 42-minute film&nbsp;centres on the re-enactment of a dispute that took place in the Herbarium of Piedemonte, Mocoa, in the Colombian Amazon,&nbsp;between a scientist and a local taita (shaman) over the role of the herbarium. For the scientist, it is a vital tool to defend territory from exploitation and protect its biodiversity; for the taita, plants are autonomous, intelligent beings that cannot be catalogued. Through performance, collaboration and dialogue,&nbsp;<em>Indexed Beings<\/em>&nbsp;explores plant sentience and asks how knowledge shifts when we recognise more-than-human intelligence, asking whose knowledge really counts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The screening will be followed by a conversation with artist,\u00a0Helen Knowles and collaborator and participant in the film Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, an indigenous guardian, mother and activist who is working to defend the sacred Putumayo mountains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor &#8211; Speakers Soraida Chindoy is an indigenous guardian, mother and activist who is working to defend the sacred Putumayo mountains. 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