Genesis Machines – La Pompa Agricultura Transsubstantia
*/doing what is to be done clandestinely
courtesy art collection City of Zurich
Exhibition: Machines Like Us, Donau Festival Krems 2020, 24.4.-02.5.20
knowbotiq in collaboration with Odete (sound): Genesis Machines, indigo farming, 2020
Exhibition: Plant Revolution! Centro International das Artes João de Guimarães, 19.10.19-16.2.20
curated by Margarida Mendes; knowbotiq in collaboration with Odete (sound)
Genesis Machines, indigo farming, 2019
The green revolution declared the optimization of agricultural plants as a design object in the name of global food security. The synthetization of molecules, nanotechnological manipulations and bioorganic vampirism determine recent reproductions of plants in vivo, in vitro, in silicio.
knowbotiq studies with their current project version: Genesis Machines, indigo farming a new speculative form of agriculture provided by the US, Boston based, company Indigo. Instead of using pesticides, chemicals or genetic engineering they use micro biomes to improve the quality and skills of plants. Microbiomes form symbiosis with agricultural plants and kind of reprogram them. Furthermore, those plants can be enabled to sequester more carbon and thus support methods to stop the climate change.
The “pompous” installation setting of knowbotiq assembles different customary laboratory and agriculture utensils towards a monstrous figuration. It critically fabulates the creationism of life science and over affirms their almost religious belief in the abstraction and fungibility of life.
Exhibition: Blue Skies – Bodies in Trouble, PACT Zollverein Essen, 10.7.19-14.7.19
Genesis Machines, xeno.reproduction, 2019
Exhibition: Eco-Visionaries, Art, Media and Ecology after the Antropocene, HEK Basel, 29.8.18-11.11.18
Genesis Machines – xeno.reproduction, 2018
Light emitting performance costume, wallpaper, digital video;
The figuration consists of different crystalline layers of synthetic biotech laboratory materials; sound: modified statements from molecular biologists – who in the name of food security and technology, occupy body, female reproduction and soil.
The wallpaper addresses the interconnectedness of synthetic biology with the main players of the the digital economy
Performance: HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Technosphere Unbound, Nov. 30th -Dec. 2nd, 2017
Genesis Machines, La Pompa Agricultura Transsubstantia, 2018
knowbotiq (yvonne wilhelm, christian huebler) mit: nicolas buzzi (granular synthesis, random-generators, multi-channel systems); fred hystère (molecular listening), claudia de serpa soares (pompa-transsubstantive figurations), angi nend (intimate micro surveillance)
The performance Genesis Machine, la pompa agricultura transsubstantia conjures and profanates constitutive moments of the agricultural-industrial technosphere that radically has been changing our notions of bodies and landscapes. Bioorganic vampirism, cybernetic control and resonance and nanotechnological transformations of life determine the scientific alternatives in vivo, in vitro, in silicio to the ecological mismanagement of the present.
La pompa agricultura transsubstantia negotiates with a ritual procession through the HKW auditorium the lack of physical experiences of vulnerability in these synthesized natures. The performance searches for social orientations and situatedness in the contingent networks of scientific objects and economic optimizations. An abstract ecological body, a posthuman assemblage of nature, landscape and laboratory, is activating granular sound synthesis and gets feedbacked by intimate visual scans. It performatively embodies the clandestine logics of pluripotency and fungibility in synthetic biology labs.
all photos: © joachim dette
tracklist: Genesis Machines 2017: Doing what is to be done clandestinely (Toile de Jouy)
Hydroponic Frighter:
3d-Prining Model: seed injector – FarmBot Genesis V0.9 Docs, Robot Harvesting in your Backyard +++ MrPisky’s IBC Aquaponics Hoophouse +++ DNA Model by rudymnv +++ Architectural Design: Farmscraper – Delta-Park Project Rotterdam (2003) +++ Roots from Aeroponics System Genesis Machine (1983) +++ Model Organism: Drosophila melanogaster +++ Reconstraction of Tianzhushania,a 570-million-year-old fossil with an uncertain biological nature by John Cunningham
Molecular Farming:
Google Map Model: Farmstaed in Illinois/USA +++ Globigenirella siphonifera genetic type 1+ II by John Cunningham +++ Nanotech Robots (Nanobots)by Iceblademush +++ Artificial Silk Leaf Project: The project uses chloroplasts from real plants suspended in silk proteins to create a hardy vehicle for photosynthesis to produce oxygen could be used to keep astronauts breathing on long space journeys.
Nano Trees:
Grey Goo NanoTree +++ Ear Tag from the Greenpeace Campain: “Stoppt Patente auf Leben“ +++ The Nanogarden of the Harvard University: Wim Noorduin cultivation of microscopic crystalline flowers +++ Dark Fleet- Pumpkin Seed-3 by rene-armenta +++ genetic modified Corn plant +++ Nanocarmodels of the Team France, Japan, Germany and the US in The world’s first race of molecule cars, 2017
Biobank:
“Biosafety cabinet designed for your peace of mind” +++ Illustration of Jack and the Beanstalk +++ EteRNA Gaming Elements: Solving Puzzles. Inventing Medicine +++ Modelling of a Pancreatitis by Liz Paton +++ Roots +++ Model of Biosensor: Discovery and Validation of Bio-Signals by mircod
Indiaca:
AgriBubble model: Mythological Planet (Bubble – 27) by Prodigga +++ Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue by Biomedical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute +++
