bingenTV And the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions: A Conversation Between Sophie Seita, Naomi Woo and Declan Wiffen

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Wiffen, Declan; Seita, Sophie and Naomi, Woo. 2025. bingenTV And the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions: A Conversation Between Sophie Seita, Naomi Woo and Declan Wiffen. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, ISSN 1468-8417 [Article] (In Press)

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This interview with Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo explores bingenTV, an exhibition at Mimosa House (London) in the Winter of 2023, and The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions, a queer-feminist, and ecologically engaged creative project. The conversation traces the Society’s origins, fictional and real, and its multimedia performances, workshops, and installations – including bingenTV, a satirical 1980s queer gardening talk show. Seita and Woo reflect on performance, rituals, archival fabulation, queer ecologies, and reparative ecological practices, drawing from a range of creative practitioners, such as Hildegard von Bingen, Vita Sackville-West, Pauline Oliveros and Alison Knowles, Mary Delany and others. The discussion explores the ambivalences of queer historical recovery, complicity, and exclusion – foregrounding gossip, humour, and embodied performance as valid modes of knowledge. Focusing on ways of cultivating community across human and more-than-human boundaries, the conversation navigates the tensions between healing and dissonance, critique and care, fiction and fact.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2025.2534645

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"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism on 28 July 2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2025.2534645. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited".

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queer ecology; interspecies; speculative writing; interview; environmenal humanities; queer feminist ecology

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