The installation at 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal draws inspiration from the short-stories found in Vermilion Sands (1971), a science fiction book by English author J. G. Ballard, which imagines a world where technological devices would be alive and sentient, such as a house capable of responding to the emotional states of its inhabitants. Zooetics Pavilion provides the concept of a future in which objects can not only be constructed but also cultivated by its human inhabitants and users – and vice versa.
Using mycelium, the part of the fungus responsible for the absorption of nutrients, oxygen, and energy in a symbiotic relationship with other cultures and materials, participants can create their own biotechnological artifacts – mycomorphs, promoting mycelium’s interaction with coffee skin, sugar cane bagasse, corn pollard or eucalyptus saw dust.
Photos: Diego Guerra
press links:
PSYCHOTROPIC HOUSE • ARTWORK ACTIVATION BY NOMEDA & GEDIMINAS URBONAS
http://www.bienal.org.br/evento.php?i=2801
NOMEDA & GEDIMINAS URBONAS
TALK ON THE PROJECT ZOOETICS PAVILION WITH LARS BANG LARSEN
http://www.32bienal.org.br/en/soundfield/o/2864/
A SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL IN PRAISE OF UNCERTAINTIES
BY Tatiane Schilaro
http://www.artnews.com/2016/09/13/a-sao-paulo-biennial-in-praise-of-uncertainties/
MIT mushrooms pop up in São Paulo
by THE ART NEWSPAPER | 8 August 2016
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/in-the-frame/mit-mushrooms-pop-up-in-s-o-paulo/
ARTE!Brasileiros
Um grito pela saúde do planeta
http://brasileiros.com.br/2016/09/um-grito-pela-saude-planeta/
Bienal de São Paulo tem obras de arte com cogumelos e moscas Tema ‘Incerteza viva’ forma curiosas parcerias.
http://g1.globo.com/jornal-nacional/noticia/2016/09/bienal-da-sao-paulo-tem-obras-de-arte-com-cogumelos-e-moscas.html
Biennale all’insegna di una sana «Incerteza»
–di Elena Giulia Rossi 11 settembre 2016
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2016-09-10/biennale-all-insegna-una-sana-incerteza-145447.shtml?uuid=ADCLZA9
Bienal de São Paulo: grátis e obras acessíveis
por JORNAL SP ZONA SUL
http://jornalzonasul.com.br/bienal-de-sao-paulo-gratis-e-obras-acessiveis/
Installation View I
32nd Bienal de São Paulo
The title of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, INCERTEZA VIVA (Live Uncertainty), proposes to look at notions of uncertainty and the strategies offered by contemporary art to embrace or inhabit it.
http://www.contemporaryand.com/magazines/32nd-bienal-de-sao-paulo/
Med øjnene helt nede i mudderet
Av Mathias Kryger
http://www.kunstkritikk.no/artikler/med-ojnene-helt-nede-i-mudderet/
Art for an Uncertain World at the São Paulo Biennial
by Elisa Wouk Almino
http://hyperallergic.com/326384/art-for-an-uncertain-world-at-the-sao-paulo-biennial/
http://leedor.com/2016/09/10/zooetica-de-nomedagediminas-urbonas-32bienal-incertezaviva/
