Bioluminescence in the Depths For centuries, humans have relied on nature’s hidden glow to navigate darkness. Before artificial lighting, miners and submariners used bioluminescent fungi—an organic guide illuminating unseen pathways. During the early 19th century, sailors in deep-sea submarines harnessed Panellus stipticus and Armillaria mellea to light up maps without flames that could consume oxygen.…
Worms. Ants. Maggots. Beetles. Mushrooms. Death was almost the moment when life overflowed its cup. Death wasn’t the end of life. It was the end of the singular. The deer decayed out of its shape into explosive, generative plurality. One narrative diverged into four hundred narratives. If I feel myself, like the compost heap, beginning…
September 11, 2024 PRIMORDIA 2, Berlin Art Week 2024 Fomes Fomentarius & Ganoderma Lucidum on a found smoking pipe
Open Studios Tempelhof – A Nexus of Digital Revolution At Open Studio Tempelhof, an initiative in Berlin that brings together hundreds of artists from diverse backgrounds in the heart of Tempelhof’s industrial area, the digital revolution meets physical space. This project, which I had the honor of curating and co-organising with TURBA Factory, FRAKTAL 0.0,…
A Pandemic Tale of Hoarding and Absurdity March 2020. The world locked down. Streets emptied, fear spread, and suddenly, in privileged nations, supermarket shelves were stripped bare—not of food or medicine, but toilet paper. For those with running water, bidets, and soap, the obsession was irrational. Yet, panic-induced consumer behavior took over. While scientists worked…