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.

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: NOSOTROS ORGANÍSMICO SERIES (2021-2023)

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 living organism?
The deaths of Gutenberg: ‘Nosotros organísmico’, proposes a speculative fabulation of inter-species 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.

"from this skin emerge new feet, mouths, faces, voices inaudible to our deaf ears. perplexities for our blind eyes. Aromas for our blocked noses. the prayers are accidentally detached. and the soul comes out through the mouth: putrefaction!!! omen of a new life.
the book desecrated and prescribed by ancient organisms.
fungal secretions
but the landscape changes from pink and white velvet to green sporulation. the magical mystery of contaminated territory

another lord of the dead. trichoderma. the soul's loss of grace." hybrid essay Mythographies of decomposition, 2022-2024