07:00
2023
Location : Italian Cultural Institute
Date – Time : 1-16 Dec
Like a warm echo reverberating from a fleshy wall or a slimy membrane, the polyphonic voice of a disembodied entity — simultaneously non-human and human — guides the viewer through an animation video based on 3D scans of physically modeled and found objects as well as collected materials.
The video delves into ipseria’s multifaceted nature as a multispecies slime and the intelligence of mucus living in vertebral organisms. Organisms like humans and the Earth are holobionts permeated by slime. These biofilms represent the biggest and oldest biocoenosis on the planet. Like these communities of microorganisms, the fictional character ipseria is an individual and group simultaneously — a single organism and a whole body of slime, a mono and multi-entity. They mediate, communicate, indicate, and remember — thinking runs through slime, and knowing is fairly distributed.