Compost n.1 is a part of a Compost series. An artistic project that combine science, video art and digital sculpting and is ispirated by the recent studies of Donna Haraway on the concept of Chtulucene: not a post human world but a human compost world characterized by a continuous process of composition and decomposition. This change of perspective is urgent especially against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic, it is necessary – to use Donna Haraway’s words – “to stay with the trouble” in this infected time and deal with kinship systems among various species. In particular, this video shows a panorama populated by symbiotic assemblages, infected surviving and migrant collaborative beings – artificial intelligences biofabricated – that wallow in a liminal environment between natural and artificial, between mineral and organic in which humanity ha reduced itself to a crystalline form.
Citron | Lunardi is a collaboration between two different personalities: Selene Citron (1986) passing from digital fabrication to performance and Luca Lunardi (1980) who works with video and writing. They scrutinize established terms like nature, culture and technology, including their definitional boundaries. They draw up experimental and future-oriented scenarios to reflect upon the hybrid network between humans and their environment. The artworks become a hybrid that mixes the pixel framework, the 3D print, the performance and the environment. A contamination that redraws the boundaries between the human and the post human, the analogical and the digital, the artificial and the natural. Our recent suggestions are the studies of the philosopher of science and pioneer cyborg feminist Donna Haraway who calls for an interspecies symbiosis. Their works have participated in national and international exhibitions.
