New York-based artist Joiri Minaya’s (joiriminaya) “Venus Flytrap” was a site-specific, newly commissioned performance series and installation at Philadelphia’s Bartram’s Garden last summer. Curated by writer and editor Dessane Lopez Cassell (dahsawn) and produced by Farrah Rahaman, the series reflected on the intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America’s oldest surviving botanical garden. “From the posed elegance that starts the performance, ‘Venus Flytrap’ grows into a carnivalesque frolic that ends with the performers receding into a large tree surrounded by sail-like colorful printed fabrics that the artist created at the city’s Fabric Workshop and Museum,” Hyperallergic’s Editor-at-Large hragv wrote about the series in his review in May of last year. A new film, co-directed by Joiri and filmmaker Xenia Matthews (glassdick), documents the process of creating and performing this work. It’s streaming exclusively on Hyperallergic — visit our link in bio ...