VITAL DOCUMENTS, STIFTUNG KÜNSTLERDORF, SCHÖPPINGEN, GERMANY, 2023
“... explains which primitive forms of the most powerful algae and which tree roots destroyed rocks and stones.” Alexander Von Humboldt, 1783.
Alexander Von Humboldt defined geography of the plants as a journey away from botanical description and classification. It is rather about the interactions that happen in the environment, the meetings between species: plants, fungi, mosses, lichens, animals, insects, climate, rocks, minerals.
The bodies-territories create a geography of relationships, they are configured in multi-species interaction: we are corpus, we are colonies organized by radical differences.
LIVER-PLANTS, SCHÖPPINGEN, GERMANY, 2023
In the group of bryophytes are the liverworts. Liver: Old English lifer, from Proto-Germanic librn, German Leber "liver", a language mark that refers to the radical difference between plant and animal. Plants are not organ-organised individuals, their corporealities are configured modularly as a colony. Plants are a "superorganism" and form part of the so-called swarm intelligences (Mancuso, 2020).
It is in the emergence of rational ignorance that the not-possible stories of our historical relationship with hepatic plants emerge, and it is we-animals who involute within this phylogeny or kinship with the vegetable. They were left with the short name of an animal organ and we were left with the invocation of a Hopeful monster-hypothese (Goldschmidt, 1929).
THE DEATHS OF GUTENBERG: ORGANISM-BOOKS SERIES,
MEXICO- GERMANY,
2022-2024
How are "humanist" meaning and practices transformed if the book, as the main emblem of knowledge, moves into a new stage and, in its death as an object of reading, becomes a fungi living organism?
The deaths of Gutenberg: ‘Nosotros organísmico’, proposes a speculative fabulation of interspecies relationships, an artistic investigation that mixes theory and praxis, poetics and politics of representation.
The beginning is an experiment of biotransformation of books by Pleurotus fungi to create a necrosystem, where the symbolic hybridization of the book and the word will take place in living organisms that look forward to a future beyond the human. With fungi, we move into a state of deactivation, of non-living organisms.
