Joy Gregory and Philip Miller

British photographer Joy Gregory and South African composer Philip Miller’s exhibition <i>Seeds of Empire: A Little or No Breeze</i> (2021) was a very personal, research-based body of work, shown at Empire House, a Georgian townhouse in Lambeth, London (UK). The collaborative works explore and experiment with the representation of an enslaved Black individual named Rose, by taking up natural scientist Hans Sloane’s medical and weather observations from 1687 to 1689 and published in his <i>A Voyage to… Jamaica</i>. The artworks combine effects of coloniality and forms of plant knowledge of the Caribbean with contemporary Jamaicans’ testimonies on migration to the United Kingdom. The Anthropocene, specifically <i>Black Anthropocenes</i>, critically frame these events. The artists’ engagement with historic sources that originate in the plantation system and its inherent violence, turn to becoming British in the present however by re-performing the past, thereby shaping a long history from the sixteenth century onwards.英国摄影师乔伊·格雷戈里（Joy Gregory）与南非作曲家菲利普·米勒（Philip Miller）的展览《帝国之种：微息或无风》（*Seeds of Empire: A Little or No Breeze*，2021）是一套极具个人色彩的研究型系列作品，曾于英国伦敦兰贝斯区的乔治亚风格联排别墅帝国之家（Empire House）展出。该合作创作以自然科学家汉斯·斯隆（Hans Sloane）1687至1689年间的医学与气象观测记录为依托，这些记录收录于其著作《航行至……牙买加》（*A Voyage to… Jamaica*），作品围绕名为罗斯（Rose）的被奴役黑人个体的形象塑造展开探索与实验。该艺术作品将殖民性的影响与加勒比地区的植物知识形态，与当代牙买加民众移民英国的证言相结合。人类世（Anthropocene），尤其是黑人人类世（Black Anthropocenes），为这些创作提供了批判性阐释框架。艺术家们虽取材于种植园体系及其固有暴力的历史资料，却通过重现过往，转向探讨当下的英国身份建构，由此梳理出16世纪以来的漫长历史脉络。