It is published! The beautiful work of Sigi Jottkandt and Prudence Gibson – thank you, dear editors, for the invitation to be part of this book! It became a rich collection of stories of the plant world and a piece of art! Please find the digital version here – from the website of open humanities press. Great work Sigi and Prue! My work “Phytonic Oracle” … Continue reading Dark Botany – Herbarium Tales
Following an article written about the upcoming idea of deep sea mining and a proposal around how to do bioethics towards the unknown, a workshop was developed together with Kristien Hens and Bartaku. On invitation by Matthijs De Block, the first edition was a try out with 17 students from LUCA school of arts in Gent, from various disciplines and backgrounds. The workshop is based … Continue reading Attuning to the Deep
Artistic research in collaboration with Lynn Hyun Kieffer was done during a visiting researcher stay in Ghent, where we developed a workshop format around the democratization of the laboratory. At the conference in Paris (Limit/NoLimit) in January 2024, we presented the workshop to 20 participants. They all grow their mycelium now, in their respective homes….. photos by Lynn Hyun Kieffer Continue reading Building Relationships – democratising the lab
In the autumn of 2023, the Bioart Society of Finland organized a fieldnotes trip to Kilpisjärvi. It was one of the series called Fieldnotes, a group event with a tight program. This year, the topic was “The North Escaping” and in my subgroup we were exploring the concept of deep time as well as aspects connected to intangible phenomena – around attunement, sleep and the … Continue reading Fieldnotes in Lappland
Mycelium is the networked fibrous rootsystem of mushrooms. Currently, it is a popular subject and material for applications in packaging, architecture, fashion etc. It is versatile, you can make almost anything out of it – and grows on waste streams. A silver bullet…. As part of the project Fungateria, the exhibition Protocognition was presented in Bristol in October 2023 at the Gallery Space, The Island, … Continue reading Mycelium exhibit
The watercress farm in Laken (Brussels) transformed into a stage and a workshop. Engaging with the toxic history, the topography of the land and the current operations of the place – farming of a healthy vegetable – were the starting point for our performance-event. The polyphony of distinct voices that overlapped, mixed, shaped, distorted, and reordered each other was presented on the 22nd of October … Continue reading What does watercress dream about?
Sourdough can be seen as a marriage between humankind and grains. It is archaic as well as contemporary and there are numerous sourdough tastes, depending on the location and the process, the age of the dough, the makers and bakers. But how much does the baker really influence the bread? When kneading the bread with your hands, you are adding your hand-biome, the unique consortium … Continue reading Armpit Bread
A previously unknown world of microbes is being revealed by current discoveries in many different fields. What is discovered drastically changes the way we understand ourselves. How can these tiny creatures inform our lives? Where do we encounter them? How can we live in symbiosis? On June 7th, 2023, an international group of artists, researchers, and thinkers gathered people to think about these questions and create a platform for … Continue reading Microbiome Event, GUM
Communities of Coexistence Group exhibition in Lähde library, Jyväskylä, Finland, from 7. 3. – 26. 3. 2023. A mini-symposium is scheduled on 23. 3. 2023. What is the language of lichen? How do biological interactions shape the evolution of organisms and maintain biodiversity?What can we learn from the social life of microbial communities, or what kind of cultures build from human-insect interaction?How do the disciplines … Continue reading Evolution in Action
About ten years ago, I had a dream, about oil. It was very clear – humankind is making a mistake. Petroleum is extracted out of the ground, pumped from the depth of the sea, in large quantities, destined to be burned. Most of it just goes up in combustion engines. But in my dream I saw that Petroleum has medicinal values, significant capacities to heal … Continue reading Petroleum
Christallina Rox 