04.07.2025 –, Jitterbug Jemma (BBB)
Sprache: English
An attempt considering the human footprint on the planet not as a dark age of terraforming but as an opportunity to redefine the human condition.
A talk on cooking fast forward evolution and brainstorming on the ingredients and what comes out of it!
This talk is a draft of a research proposal where, through ‘rapid evolution’, mutations and transfiguration, one must adapt to and survive the ecological collapse brought about by mankind. What the Earth, the sun and the cosmos would have taken centuries to shape, humanity has been able to accelerate in about 150 years. Would it be possible for human nature to align itself with the larger planetary nature or with a smaller interspecific symbiotic nature? To do this, would we have to become a gelatin man feasting on plastic waste at the bottom of the ocean or an earthworm man devouring mine drainage water?
According to recent studies, microplastics have penetrated living organisms, from the placenta of the fetus to the bloodstream, and circulate in the air to the upper atmosphere, swim in water, and settle in the soil (Pinto-Rodrigues, 2023). The transformations of living organisms are already at work today, and my interest lies in the extent to which adaptation may push the living.
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nur remote verfügbar – JaPepa Ivanova is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Brussels.
Her work questions the epistemological values of numeric languages and their scientific and artistic translations. She works in various media, such as digital technologies, glass, 3D, living matter, and customised electronics, to create stories, objects, and light and sound installations.
Pepa’s PhD research at LUCA, School of Arts, Ghent/ KU Leuven was focused on the sun-earth cohabitation and the autopoiesis of observational data.
At present, she writes recipes and scenarios for surviving in fast-changing habitats through mutation.