SODA WORKS 2018
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination. The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
The SODA (Solo/Dance/Authorship) class of 2018 have compiled this publication to contain selected content from their individual thesis projects. These projects each consisted of a live performance - presented in December 2017, at the Uferstudios in Berlin - an artist work book, as a document of the creative process and a written essay, each explicating areas of independent research. It is the aim of this publication to present a selection of this material for public dissemination.
The publication can be read in two directions: vertically as well as horizontally. You can choose from which perspective you would like to start. You can read the book from the beginning till the end and after that start again, this time reading from a different angle, or you can simply make fast changes, jumping from horizontal to vertical, from vertical to horizontal. It is just a matter of adjusting the object to your choices. The amount of changes is limitless.
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ean the thing!<br />
As we continue thinking with bacteria, we ‘have’ no bacteria, meaning that no bacteria belong to us. At the same time, we are<br />
influenced by them and our thinking and feelings are connected with their actions. What does this mean for our decisions?<br />
Every community lives in communities with many others, just like ideas live in art. The ideas and artworks do not belong to<br />
the artists. It is impossible to distinguish ‘our’ bacteria, the ones that inhabit us our whole lives. In the same way, we cannot<br />
tell if an artistic thinking process is happening with the company and assistance of certain bacteria. What an artist does by<br />
making art is to put them in process. We can have tons of ideas but to realise them, we have to insist on them; to put them<br />
in process. Imagine this: I, a scientist, share my apartment with a film director, let‘s say, Jane Campion. Eating breakfast<br />
together, sharing cups, using the same towels, keeping our things in proximity, kissing each other, using the same utensils<br />
to cut our nails, borrowing shoes, our bacteria ecosystems impact each other. Practically, this means that my bacteria<br />
triggers certain ideas in Campion, making her write certain scripts, choosing certain scenes for her movies. Yet it is her as a<br />
person that activates the whole machinery. She allows bacteria from my ecosystem to niche in her, she listens to them<br />
and ‘lets them speak’ through their molecular language. She listens to them, she listens to her body as we might call<br />
it colloquially, but on a physical level there is nothing more than Campion giving space to different kinds of microbes. She<br />
cultivates them and allows them to interfere with and influence her own ecosystem.<br />
Some symbionts help digest food, some symbionts help digest ideas. Some new microbes are random residents, some<br />
temporary passersby. But there should always be a small fraction that matters, and this is where artists have the possibility to<br />
act. An artwork is not a product of discourse, it is the material confrontation between bodies. The act of thinking and making<br />
work is dynamically entangled with the microbial capacities of our bodies. We should not forget that while writing our credits.
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