Posthuman Confluence Installation
This work is the last project I did in the course of Master of Art in Public Space. I summarised all that transpired from previous small projects within the Finding Children of Compost project into Posthuman Confluence in order to facilitate constructive public discourse to find hope, care, and empathy in the broken world.
This multimedia installation consists of 3 Extinction quilts, crochet lichens, and a short video. The Extinction quilt from a previous project is re-made into two full-size single bed quilts, together with a plain quilted panel as a video screen. At the centre of the installation, a video tells the story of my resonance with microbes, mushrooms, and kitchen tools. Through preparing a meal with the lichen and mushroom, I try to articulate my relationship with other species and matters. In the beginning, I put on the lichen gloves to represent my symbiotic relationship with all the microbes inside me. This relationship is complicated; some microbes make me sick, but most of the time, the microbes provide vital functions essential for my survival. One of the essential partnerships is food consumption, a important part of the ecosystem. Through the performance, I aspire to tell the story of a partnership (between all-other-beings and me) based on mutual respect and understanding by making a meal with mushroom, lettuce, capsicum, lemon, oil, knife, fork, bowls, and plates. My respect and care towards these non-human partners are projected through my body movement and the food presentation.
This artwork was set up in outdoor parkland filled with gumtrees, native grass, flowers, clear air, soft breeze, birds, insects, rabbits, koalas, possums, and human passers-by. The quilts were animated by the wind and accompanied by songs of birds. My Children of Compost Symbionts invited all Bios and Zoë to join, telling their stories, rediscovering the connection with each other, and finding meanings in the entanglement. I sum up this work with Braidiotti words, ”What is inexhaustible is the potential that all living organisms share for multiple actualizations of yet unexplored interconnections, across and with human and non-human.”
This work is the last project I did in the course of Master of Art in Public Space. I summarised all that transpired from previous small projects within the Finding Children of Compost project into Posthuman Confluence in order to facilitate constructive public discourse to find hope, care, and empathy in the broken world.
This multimedia installation consists of 3 Extinction quilts, crochet lichens, and a short video. The Extinction quilt from a previous project is re-made into two full-size single bed quilts, together with a plain quilted panel as a video screen. At the centre of the installation, a video tells the story of my resonance with microbes, mushrooms, and kitchen tools. Through preparing a meal with the lichen and mushroom, I try to articulate my relationship with other species and matters. In the beginning, I put on the lichen gloves to represent my symbiotic relationship with all the microbes inside me. This relationship is complicated; some microbes make me sick, but most of the time, the microbes provide vital functions essential for my survival. One of the essential partnerships is food consumption, a important part of the ecosystem. Through the performance, I aspire to tell the story of a partnership (between all-other-beings and me) based on mutual respect and understanding by making a meal with mushroom, lettuce, capsicum, lemon, oil, knife, fork, bowls, and plates. My respect and care towards these non-human partners are projected through my body movement and the food presentation.
This artwork was set up in outdoor parkland filled with gumtrees, native grass, flowers, clear air, soft breeze, birds, insects, rabbits, koalas, possums, and human passers-by. The quilts were animated by the wind and accompanied by songs of birds. My Children of Compost Symbionts invited all Bios and Zoë to join, telling their stories, rediscovering the connection with each other, and finding meanings in the entanglement. I sum up this work with Braidiotti words, ”What is inexhaustible is the potential that all living organisms share for multiple actualizations of yet unexplored interconnections, across and with human and non-human.”