The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination performs around this paradox, exploring its tensions, revelling in its surprises, and urging us to bin any notion we might have of plant life being somehow passive or a static backdrop for the more go-getting life of our planet.
Through analysis of these cases, the paper illustrates that legal definitions are not a static backdrop against which other forms of bordering work occurs, but dynamic sites in which legal discourse both responds to and produces socio-spatial relations, delineating the threshold of humanitarian categories and thus the meaning and consequences of cross border movement for specific groups of people.
The series features Smilde's temporal creations appearing within static backdrops; cathedrals, galleries, refined Dutch interiors, and all manners of large, empty spaces.
"So Gone," with a sparse backdrop of static and sampled strings and horns, has the singer missing her ex so much that she stalks him, while in "Knock Knock" she sends away a guy who used to take her for granted.
From the monotonous backdrop of static came a weak signal calling out, in slow bursts of Morse code, "CQ";a ham's way of letting people know he's in the market for a conversation.
That way of thinking, he says, hinders developers from bridging the gap between static (if beautifully rendered) city backdrops and true, dynamic simulations.
However, these plans are often static conservation prescriptions set against a backdrop of rapidly changing environments, which suggests that large-scale information on threats can improve the functionality of planning efforts.
Against this backdrop, South Florida still stands out.
To counteract their slightly static delivery, the band was accompanied by a video backdrop and a light show worthy of bonfire night, while a drum machine and keyboards were used to funk things up.
Tricoli builds layered worlds of static and ricocheting booms, building to crashing waves of sound – a backdrop for voices reduced to nonsensical, faraway chattering, and the scuttling of giant insects on alien shores.
House prices are static, consumer spending has dropped off and manufacturing is struggling against the backdrop of a weaker global economy.
