“Never home alone: multispecies perspectives” is a portrait of a domestic space, seen through the perspectives of plants, bacteria and objects inhabiting it. Immersive video technology is used in a quiet way to place the viewer in non-human p.o.v.’s around domestic interiors. Excerpts of text pop up occasionally as suggestions to direct the gaze. During the quarantine, the living, breathing, even uncanny qualities of homes got heightened into bubbles of activity for human and non-human interactions. Within such ecosystems, computers function as social hubs and professional stations, adding whole new layers over an otherwise private space. “New habitats we have unintentionally invented. Refrigerators and freezers that can get as cold as the coldest tundra. Ovens hotter than the hottest desert and water heaters as hot as hot springs.” (Text from the book Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn)
