11:30 - 12:15

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Chapel St.Joost, Breda on 19 November 2021 (live)

Photo by Hana Josic

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Špela Petric

I, Ficus.

Photo by Hana Josic

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Subject of presentation

In Western thought, plants are conceived of as beings simple enough to be fully comprehended and subsequently controlled/managed. In the PLANTMACHINE series I insist on intensifying the relationship between information technology and plants, identifying in it two critical features of the current situation: the urgency to reconstruct our relationship to plants, and the ontological flattening in which plants and the statistical human essentially become equal. 

Photo by: Spela Petric

Photo by: Hana Josic

Photo by: Christina Bakuchava

Concise resume

Špela’s artistic practice combines the natural sciences, wet bio-media practices, performance, and critically examines the limits of anthropocentrism via multi-species endeavors. Throughout artistic experiments that enact strange relations, I reveal the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies.