(press pic to play a short doumentation video from the event)
Fermenting the Change – a creative journey into microorganic intelligence is a series of art-based and multidisciplinary workshops where I, together with artist Leo Kay (UK), explore how bacterial cultures can increase our empathic understanding of nature’s interconnected existence. We create platforms where aesthetics, sound and movement expand the senses that allow for a deeper connection and understanding of the bacteria’s ways of working, communicating and solving challenges. Through a ritualized and aesthetic process, the 3-day workshop provides insight into the need for a diversity of cultures where the untamed, wild and unusual creates the essence of robust societies at both micro and macro levels. The first of a series of workshop was at the Museum of Impossible Forms in Helsinki, directed by Professor Salla Sariola in the project “Cultures of cultures – A Multi Species Understanding of Health.”
Thanks to wonderful Mark Drifter who managed the sound recordings during the 3 day workshop.Film and still images: Alina Egorova and Eva Bakkeslett
Documentation video edit: Onwards Productions
