POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the permeability – the porosity – of the body and its relationship to organisms beyond the human.
Developed by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, POROUS MATTER conceives of the body as a living community inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cell colonies that shape our metabolism, our perception, and our very being. The body is approached as an archive in which evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological stories are inscribed.
The performance unfolds at the intersection of physical and virtual worlds. Through the interplay of video, mirrors, and sound textures, the performers’ bodies merge with digital structures, multiply, fragment, and oscillate between solid and fluid states.
Afterwards there will be an Art x Science Talk with Prof. Dr. Adrian Egli (Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich) and Anna Anderegg (artist) under the moderation of Dr. Katharina Weikl (Head of Art x Science Office, UZH).
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