13. Implications and applications¶
Research & Concept¶
Framed under my ongoing research around the domestic, gathering and collective rest, i look into rituals that fabulate in opposition to the commodification, domestication and exploitation of all,- both organic and inorganic beings and matter,- as labor forces under the current extractivist paradigm. Currently i’m deepening my research into the absent, questioning the boundaries between organic and inorganic life. I’m interested in processes of deep time, unreachable to our human sight, into unperceptible mechanism that create movement and vibrations escaping our awareness. I look into nature’s simbiosis relational modes: comensalism, parasitism and mutualism, to develop methodologies that involve collective creation (sympoiesis). Rooting these process in an life-long curiosity of mine, the senses, i want to connect movement, bodies, touch and sound, starting to experiment with sonification = the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data to explore water and soil resonances, into 3D bioprinting. The material to print would be resoulting a local research on rural and domestic waste and turn it into resource as substrate.
Context
References & Inspiration¶
Theoretical documentation and books¶
_ Entangled life, Merlin Sheldrake
_ Parallel Minds, Laura Tripaldi
PODCAST
- Living Photosynthetic Slime. Viscous synergies between nature and technology. Laura Tripaldi.
_ Gaia Theory: Between Autopoiesis and Sympoiesis, Audronė Žukauskaitė.
_ sensoriality
Senses are the potentials that articulate the framework of our bodies in relation with our surroundings, i call membrane to the interrelation between body and their surroundings. Thanks to the senses our membrane is held, and within them we exist, relate and experiment due to consume, process, reach and become troubling our own limits. Explorations through the senses, our bodies and their context are pierced by touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. Putting emphasis in the senses other than the sight, as this it's been overexploided in contemporary culture. Leaving aesthetics to arose from sensorial methodologies.
PROJECTUAL REFERENCES¶
The Singing Compost has involved the creation of a functioning system that not only generates healthy, nutritious compost from garden waste, but also makes visible and audible the bacterial activity and metabolic processes of soil in all its liveliness, transmitting clicking noises that have become part of the surrounding sonic landscape. The Singing Compost can be understood as a prototype for a sensorial, educational and ecologically regenerative artwork, that invites connection and relation with the living ecosystems that we all are part of and depend upon.
Dafne Phono , Nour Mobarak
A reinterpretation of the first-ever opera, “Dafne,” based on Ovid’s story of Daphne and Apollo, the installation involves 15 sculptures—encasing a multichannel sound installation within mycelium structures—recount the tale in some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages.
Saša Spačal Postmedia artist, merges living systems research with contemporary art, emphasising the interconnectedness of the environment-culture continuum within planetary metabolisms. Her artistic endeavours include developing caring biotechnological methodologies and interfaces that engage with both organic and mineral soil agents. In parallel, she explores the fragility of posthuman scenarios, intricately weaving mechanical, digital, and organic logics within the realms of contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics.
Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón, Óscar Martín and Katia Sepúlveda
Project germination¶
Why, What, Who, When, Where, How?¶
WHY ?
WASTE into RESOURCE: repurpose rural and household waste into resources for zero-wate homes.
CO- HABITATION: foster other-than-human life, that suffers extremely from extractivism, intent for biodiversity in near context
WHAT ? IMMERSIVE, PARTICIPATORY, REGENERATIVE SCULPTURES Develop a system that capture and translate invisible processes like movement, humidity, and hidden exchanges into tangible sensory outputs, such as forms and sound.
HOMES FOR MORE~THAN~HUMAN BEINGS. Material research organic and inorganic waste into bagasse
WHO ?
LOCAL FARMERS
FORESTRY
MYCELIUM EXPERTS
MYCELIUM, BACTERIA, MORE~THAN~HUMAN BEINGS
FRIENDS & BROADER LOCAL COMMUNITY
WHEN ?
ONGOING, RESIDUE INTO GROWN
SENSORIAL OUTPUTS WHEN RELATION
DECAY ?
WHERE ?
LOCAL RURAL and URBAN ECOSYSTEMS
HOW ?
COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS RESEARCH
3D MODELLING AND PROTOTYPING
FUNGI / BACTERIA CULTIVATION
SENSORIAL INTERACTIVE SYSTEM
Objectives¶
Reveal Hidden Interconnections: To make invisible ecological processes and tangible through interactive art.
Explore Expanded Sensoriality: To translate imperceptible phenomena, such as humidity, movement, and energy exchanges, into sensory experiences (e.g., sound or form), broadening the scope of human perception.
Fabulate, co~creation and symbiosis: To foster co-creation between human, more~than~humans, and materials, challenging anthropocentric hierarchies and embracing more-than-human perspectives.