About Delisted

Delisted 2023 recognizes that cultural, social and political ruptures between and among humans and nonhuman beings drives this and other crises. It approaches healing these ruptures and metabolizing ecological grief through relational and communal creative expression. By centering nonhuman others and the more than human world, Delisted 2023 provides a means for people to encounter the strangeness and beauty of these others in all of their dignity and autonomy.

Additionally, Delisted 2023 operates explicitly through engaging structures of power, particularly the law, and aims to provides ways to disrupt the anthropocentric and extractive nature of western law through creative disruption and countering legal narratives that strip away the inherent dignity of nonhuman and more than human beings.

Delisted 2023 is a creative and cross-disciplinary project but it rests on deeply rigorous understanding of knowledges and practices including de-colonial approaches to biology, ecology and evolutionary, as well as freely shared Indigenous Knowledges.

Delisted 2023 began in January 2023 with an ongoing tributary project for the members of 34 species, subspecies and morphs (collectively “species”) of plants, and nonhuman animals. Artifacts from the creative work of more than 40 artists, writers, and musicians honoring these species and the other members of their ecological world will be published by The 3rd Thing Press in fall 2026, and included in an installation in Seattle, Washington at the same time. This website will host works and information dedicated to these species over the next year.

 Delisted 2023’s other current tributary project, “Creative Commenting” is an experiment in using creative expression to center nonhuman beings in submissions to federal agencies and other during public comment periods. To date, this project has provided encounters with an orchid, utes ladies’ tresses; freshwater mussels, Chipola slabshell and fat threeridge, and the Virginia sneezeweed.