How do we find just and joyful ways of existing amid ongoing climate collapse, madness, genocide? How can we hold the incomprehensible in our everyday? What are its unspoken languages?

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We begin by slipping off the edge of known vocabularies and governable landscapes— a strategic and necessary escape. We get lost in tongueless frenzies and revel in unruly forests. Commune with water-spirits and mourn the forcibly drowned. Dwell with floral spectres and entangle with protesting bodies.
Scape: A stalk directly emerging from the root; also landscape, escape, scapegoat, dreamscape and so on.

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—scape brings together South Asian artists, each of whose works are rooted in their located contexts even as they invite us into their expansive somatic, political, and emotional ecologies.