ipseria (cave of intelligent slime)
2-CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION
2-channel video, sound, wallpaper, dimensions variable
exhibition view at "Night Pieces – A foreign Body within", Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, CHN
ipseria (cave of intelligent slime) showed as 2-channel video installation including a 3.45 x 13.16 meter wallpaper at Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Xiamen, China, in 2024.
The exhibition project “Night Pieces: A Foreign Body Within” was curated by CHEN Min and supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai. It aimed to touch upon the poetics of techno-romanticism in contemporary Media art production.
While the mixed-reality installation in part I explored the fictional entity ipseria's gender and (non-)procreation, part II delves into ipseria's multifaceted nature as a multispecies slime and the intelligence of mucus. 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, ipseria is individual and group simultaneously – a single organism and a whole body of slime, a mono- and a multi-entity. ipseria appears/appear at interfaces and boundary areas of the spheres, on mucous membranes, bridging the living and the Umwelt (environment), the inside and the outside. They know how much an organism can take, and they keep the delicate balance of a system. They mediate, communicate, indicate, and remember. Thinking runs through slime. Knowing is fairly distributed.
2023/2024
Concept/Script/Direction/Modelling/3D Scans/ Edit/Production: Isabell Bullerschen
Animation: Florian Baumann
Sound: Vanessa Bosch
Voice: Hannah Mehler
Furthermore I had the honour to work with a CT-scan of Physarum polycephalum from the research project “Indentation analysis of active viscoelastic microplasmodia of P. polycephalum”. Special thanks to Adrian Fessel, Christina Oettmeier, Klaus Wechsler and Hans-Günther Döbereiner, Eva-Maria Meyer, Christian Kapitza.
