Science Friction, Living Among Companion Species
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of CCCB.
An exhibition based on the work in progress begun at L’Espace Virtuel Jeu de Paume in Paris, and which subsequently mutated into Especies del Chthuluceno. Panorama de prácticas para un planeta herido (Species from Chthuluceno. Panorama of practices for a wounded planet; Gabinete Sycorax, 2019).
The central theme of this exhibition is the realization that the human species is changing. Not quite the species itself, but rather the idea of humans as a superior species. The aim is to show that all life on Earth is interdependent, involved in complex biological exchanges. Evolution is not simply a tree with humans at its pinnacle, but rather a network: a network of interspecies exchanges. A network comprising collaborations, mutations, exchanges, co-evolution and symbiosis, the etymological meaning of which is “living together.”
This exhibition invites us to explore the frictions that arise from this change. Frictions expressed in the realms of natural sciences, philosophy, humanities and culture. Frictions which imply contact and abrasion, resistance and the ability to imagine other stories about life on earth, other ways of coexisting in the community of life.
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