I created a new Fermentophone remix for the Ferment exhibition at Galerie Neukölln in Berlin.
Working with Life. Without Air.
We live in a time in which the living no longer clearly begins where nature ends. Organisms are programmed, memories are stored, bodies are measured, microbes are cultivated, food is staged, and perception is technologically expanded. What once seemed natural, bodily, or immediate increasingly appears as material that can be edited, preserved, transformed, or controlled.
Life becomes readable, moldable, recordable.
And sometimes, it runs out of air.Working with Life. Without Air. brings together artistic positions that explore the transitions between organism, technology, memory, and perception. The exhibition asks not only how humans intervene in nature, but also how technological, biological, and social systems have themselves become environments in which life emerges, survives, is simulated, or is altered.
In the works of Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Eleonora Bertolotti, Joshua Pablo Rosenstock, and Janina Schwiemann, the living does not appear as a romantic opposite to technology, but as something unstable, porous, and constructed. Bacteria, textiles, digital processes, sound, food, microscopic structures, and interactive systems become carriers of memory, disruption, and transformation.
The exhibition moves between laboratory and kitchen, archive and body, play and control. It makes visible what usually remains beneath perception: biological processes, technical interventions, sensory deceptions, and fragile forms of closeness. The works do not attempt to explain life, but make it tangible in its in-between states.
What does it mean to work with life when life itself is no longer clearly natural?
What forms of responsibility, intimacy, or unease emerge when organisms, memories, and perceptions become materials of artistic, technological, and social construction?
Working with Life. Without Air. is an exhibition about living systems under altered conditions. About breathing, storing, growing, deceiving, and touching. About what lives even when it is controlled. And about what seems artificial, although it may be closer to us than we think.
With works by Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Eleonora Bertolotti, Joshua Pablo Rosenstock, Janina Schwiemann.
