Left-Standing is a video and word collage performance of an emergent collective affect, using fragmented elements from cultural, industrial and scientific imaginaries around earthly life and the potential colonization of other planets. Focusing on dimensions of ordinary human engagement with the nonhuman earthly world, the overall scenario presents  encounters with animals who wander a neighborhood after a woods has been razed and developed, and with the trees, grasses, waters, and crops in the leftover woods and its surrounding farmlands. Lepselter’s presentation will invite discussion about our collective feelings at a moment of ecological, social, and epistemological precarity and continuity.