Programme:
- Reflecting arts-based research methods
and practices with artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK
- Participatory artwork extension with “powdering”
About the installation:
It is not possible to rule, to dominate living systems such as animals and
human animals, oceans and rivers, societies and cities, organizations and governments, jungles and forests, schools and universities,
national and international economies, climate and the biosphere, in the long term through linear, mechanistic thinking or
even violent interventions.
Living systems are in constant interaction with their environment and are constantly
shaping and transforming themselves. They can be influenced in thriving directions if we try to understand their inner nature,
their inherent rules, trying to understand them deeply, with all our senses. We can gently poke, stimulate them. We can rethink
and shift our ideas about boundaries – and also enlarge our circles of empathy and care towards non-human and more-than-human
nature.
This multisensory installation offers an instant sensual glimpse into the research process, and possibly
pokes awareness concerning living systems.
