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extractivismo, colonialismo, multiespecie, queer, taxonomías, alquimias
Bioxeno is a research and performance project developed by Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra. It draws from the desire to establish an interspecies entanglement with cyanobacteria communities as well as it acknowledges our human limitations and the dependence in technology to mediate these relationships. We ask ourselves: what artistic formats could show/translate this type of relationship without reproducing anthropocentric or colonial gazes? How can we account for the biodiversity and extractivism present in the ecosystems we inhabit? How do we think of the bio in so much life? What do we think about our lives? Or rather, how do we live?
And by doing so, we are interested in questioning the bases on which technologies and tools, both scientific and artistic, are defined; contaminating them with trans*feminist ways of doing very much informed by a hacker ethic and a decolonial gaze. In other words, ways of doing that are committed to an open culture and science, to the generation of hybrid, situated and transversal narratives, taking into account the cosmopolitical context in which they develop.
The research focuses on the cyanobacteria that inhabit the Ebro Delta in Catalonia and the Tigre Delta in Argentina.
Nos propusimos utilizar la tecnología informática como medio de comunicación con el micromundo, priorizando una interacción sonora en tiempo real.
El software audio visual que utilizamos es Pure Data. Pure Data es de código abierto y permite programar en formato de patch. El software consta de dos partes, un primer patch que sirve para recibir datos de la cámara web del microscopio, generando valores en forma algorítmica, estos parámetros serán trasladados a un segundo patch encargado de traducirlos en sonido. La interacción se basa en la variación de la intensidad de diferentes frecuencias de la luz, en función de los píxeles, en particular, los valores en [x,y] y el número de "detección" procesadas. Pure Data realiza la "captura de movimiento" de los fotogramas de vídeo detectados por la cámara web del microscopio, mediante el rastreo de áreas de píxeles brillantes.
“(…) Residents of the delta talk about cyanobacteria and contaminated water, tell stories of invasions, toxins and problems caused by these cyanobacteria in their daily lives. Another research begins: news sites and scientific journals evoke the proliferation of cyanobacteria in all the affluents of the large rivers that reach the La Plat basin, traveling thousands of kilometers from the Amazon. Fertilizers from monocultures and deforestation infiltrate the river waters, and toxins are assimilated by the cyanobacteria. Once the cyanobacteria flower, they invade the water—this same water that is the life source for human and non-human animals. (…) Whom do the cyanobacteria protect? What are they protecting themselves from? Is the same thing happening in the Ebro delta? First collection of samples… but what to do with them?”
Through textual and visual narratives and sonorized microbiology, the artists created “scattered, non-definitive narratives, story sketches made up of sounds, textures and smells”, because “biology is not teleological” (citing the Colombian queer ecologist Brigitte Baptiste).
Artículo MAKERY. Published 2 November 2021 by Ewen Chardronnet
https://www.makery.info/en/2021/11/02/bourges-a-lursulab-le-nom-du-monde-est-foret/
*Performance Bioxeno , Hangar Obert, Hangar.org Barcelona. Septiembre 2023.
*Performance Bioxeno Tecnologías del amor with Himali Singh Soin - Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Enero 2023.
*Performance Bioxeno, Festival ALUD!, CraterLab, Hangar. Barcelona. Noviembre 2022
*Inauguración Ursulab, Octubre 2021.