Tick Drag

Lubnah Ansari

In this guided walk, the audience is invited near the Mahicannituck River to conduct a scientific investigation on a newly emerging parasitic arachnid. The Asian Longhorned Ticks – defined as an invasive species by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – are on the rise. Tick Drag complicates standardized ideas of invasive species in the context of settler colonies, dissolving binaries that obscure deeper structures of harm and domination.



Photo by Grace Crummett