ECOSS. Ecosystems of the unexpected

What is nature? How long will we continue to recreate our environment according to our vision of nature and how much of what we consider "nature" is in fact a simulation?

We live in a society in which simulations are often more influential, satisfying, and meaningful than what they presumably represent.

Should we rethink the relationship between people, nature and technology? Media technologies play a fundamental role in our cycle of meaning-making, they have impact on our conception of the virtual and the real, which seem less complementary than is usually thought.

The works shown in this exhibition are an unfolding landscape, in vertical section, studying  biological-archaeological fields (Pareidolia), revealing self-regulation mechanisms (The Breath of Life), apparatuses, electronic and prosthetic objects that are articulated in plants and transcribe their language (Beyond Human Perception), take care of them (Symbiotic Transmitter), appropriate and monitor them (e - terrarium).

An inter-species voyage at various scales putting in relation universes delimited by sometimes imperceptible membranes, that bond or separate entities and concepts of what is alive and what is inert.

A relational experience that wishes to interrogate us about anthropocentric paradigms and try to move their centres of balance and power.

EXHIBITION PROGRAM

LIFE AND INTER-SPECIES ART

PAREIDOLIA.  Author: Paula Bruna (Cat)
Photography and organic material.

OFFERING.  Author: Paula Bruna (Cat)
Outdoor installation from edible material for birds.

SYMBIOTIC TRANSMITTER.  Author: Nathalie Gebert (Germany)
Hybrid structure of interacting electronics and plants

BEYOND HUMAN PERCEPTION. Author: María Castellanos / Collective uh513 (Asturias)
Installation with plants, mechanized objects, and projected video.

THE BREATH OF LIFE. Author: Anna Rierola (Cat)
Generative video installation made with confocal microscopy images of cells (IRB Barcelona collaboration).

e - TERRARIUM. Author: Rosa Sánchez / Collective Kònic (Cat)
Interactive telematic installation.

An initiative of: Kòniclab

In collaboration with: Fabra i Coats – Creation Factory and Arts Santa Mònica

Supported by: Barcelona City Council- Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies - Spanish Ministry of Sport and Culture