Dissolving Our Market Value

The format invites the participants to consider solidarity and differences in economic questions in the form of community care practice. In doing so, a coming to terms with structures will play a special role and we will work together to consider solidary art practices.

October 30, 2021
Green Open Food Evolution — Hybridization Processes in Human and Non-Human Ingestion, or, How Bacteria Have Sex
With Maya Minder

Probiotics to improve the immune system, vegans live healthier and longer, algae are being hyped as a new superfood. According to a scientific article, the Japanese microbiome has adapted itself over centuries to its environment in order to be able to better digest algae. The evolutionary epigenetics of the human microbiome express themselves in Japanese food culture. The improvement of our digestive system is underlined just as much by the newest trend toward raw fermented kombucha. The human being and their microbial complexity with their environment scream for changes in habits. A possible life after the ruin of capitalism? Can veganism actually lead to us becoming plant-based? As a food artist, Maya Minder uses a hands-on workshop in order to try and answer the questions of how norms, contingents and disciplining of foodstuff and beyond can be undone by using unlearning processes. A workshop on the topic of hybridization processes between cuisine, biohacking and evolution theory.

Based in Zurich, the artist Maya Minder uses cooking as a processual negotiation of the symbiotic coexistence of human and non-human living creatures. In doing so, she creates interrelations between everyday objects and animistic natural materials. She has created work for Ars Electronica, the Piksel Festival in Bergen as well as for Kunsthalle Zürich and is part of BadLab Zürich and the International Hackteria Society.

Organized by Melmun Bajarchuu (critical companion), Annett Hardegen (dramaturge/producer/co-director) & Julia*n Meding (performance artist)