Summer School, Lecture by Pei-Ying Lin: Micro Performances / Macro Connections. Part 2
Open Set Summer School 2018 | workshop by Pei-Ying Lin (designer & artist), 'Micro Performances / Macro Connections. Part 2: Incorporating Bacteria and Viruses in Daily Life'
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This is a three days exploration of human as biological dynamic assembly - how we make connections with other living beings, and how human and all biological beings connect through the microscopic and macroscopic. How we live and perform together, how we migrate with each other, and how we transform each others.
How do we share our experiences and how do we make connections with other people through the encounter of other species with our inner side of the body? The workshop will be looking at these relationships through food relating with the participants and Bijlmer area, from the scale of earth to the scale of microscopic. By getting to know the people and, restaurants, and markets with food in Bijlmer area to map out the activities of microbes and ‘biological activities’ within the community. And more particularly, fermentation, migration, and microbes migration. These materials will become the ‘ingredients’ we construct our new biological possibilities. Through developing different sensorial ways of observing to create an expanded performance that doesn’t only happen at human scale but also inside the human body and hopefully across communities. In short and simple words: the workshop aimed to create a performance with the microbes telling the story of human and
microbes migration while exploring the possibilities of deepening the relationship and reflecting what we really are.
More about Open Set –– www.openset.nl @opensetschool
More about Heather Barnett –– www.peiyinglin.net