Holobionts, Symbionts and Other Subtleties. Presentation and performative installation
We invite you to the opening of Holobionts, Symbionts and Other Subtleties – Tra(n)shumant Genealogy of Companion Bugs in the format of a narrative/performance installation.
A speculative exercise travelling through our transoceanic genealogies, exiled and/or migrated between south and north, so that we can recognise ourselves among companion bugs. The genealogy is a journey through five of our generations, but what we are going to recount are the lives of the bugs that accompany people. Neither bugs have to be bugs nor does our human genealogy have to share blood or documents. Who are these companion bugs? They are so-called ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ beings that travel in the body of human animals or in the objects we carry, travelling in the air or together with other non-human animals, fermenting the bread or the food we eat...
On Thursday, we will bring to La Capella the traces of what the project has been composting and what we have been macerating slowly in the dark. It cannot be rushed, and at times neither can we understand the language that it speaks to us. We are still learning to observe what the bugs tell us: to observe, because we have not yet reached the point of listening and deciphering each language.
Ce Quimera: Artist and researcher born and raised in Argentina who has been living in Europe since 2000. I experiment, perform and write with questions about bodies, identities and technosciences, while keeping an eye on the commitment to collective knowledge. I revisit anthropology, biology and ecology in an undisciplined manner. I am interested in the corporal as a driver of mutation, as a possibility of becoming not only sex-generic but also species dissidence. I develop projects linking multi-species genealogies, living technologies, oracles as scientific research methods and speculative narratives in queer ecosystems. Co-founder of the Quimera Rosa laboratory, my work focused on cyborg identities and trans*species becomings with the Trans*Plant project. I engage in curatorial and care work in art/science (at Wetlab, Hangar) and understand educational processes as artistic production (I co-direct Pluriversidad Nómada).
https://cequimera.hotglue.me
Instagram: @cequimera
txe roimeser / roimisher / roimiser (Girona, 1991): Seventh kyu of shorei-kan karate, mastectomy post-operative as an artistic project, ex-resident artist of Hangar and current resident of their room. Living with/in failure since 2018, they have conducted research in a MUECA master that accompanies, from a transfeminist practice, their methodologies and everyday life using cracks and peripheries to generate errors that reveal powers and fictions.
https://letxe.hotglue.me/
Instagram: @letxe
