In the first two weeks of February 2018 we began an artistic exploration in Tulum, Mexico during which we found a radical marine pollution in ltrating in the landscape: contemporary symbiotic relationships in which different forms of life inevitably were coexisting with plastic and other human waste.
With the use of a self-built microscope we took on the task of monitoring on a small scale the forms that these new symbiosis were throwing at us in order to express the poetics of resilience. In the microscopic domain, all forms remind us that life is a platform for abundant materiality, that the non-organic is also a natural physical arrangement; and that the ocean shapes our plastics in the same way as the rest of material waste giving genesis to hybrid species. This con rmed to us that nature always wins. In this live performance we use the microscope as a living sound interface, the poetics of resilience expressed in sound and sound as a bridge connecting species.
Multispecies nomad collective and independent artistic re-search bureau founded in Mexico City in 2013. Our current lines of research are focused on the use of sound and Artificial Intelligence to understand the bioelectrical and chemical signals of different living organisms and its geometrical patterns as a nonhuman form of communication. For this purpose we’ve developed a collection of experimental research and educational tools we call Ontological Machines. Our work is deeply shaped by the Latin American context where precarity enables new forms of creativity and ancient technologies meet cutting edge forms of production. We think about this as a methodology for creation, where one is always looking for the most suitable way to produce in terms of social inclusion, cross-disciplinary practices and open knowledge.
http://www.interspecifics.cc/
