Guman in Terrapolis
I aim to inspire our species to feel curiosity, attraction and visual pleasure when observing these PostHuman creatures that are different from the current human catalogue.
These beings are evolved single-celled hermaphrodites created from natural and digital substances, inspired by the writings of Donna Haraway, an American philosopher and one of the leaders of the feminist thought within the field of gender studies. These more than human creatures are a laboratory of life, an autopoietic system that reproduces itself from its inside. They are therefore non-individualistic mothers who do not belong to a binary gender, living in symbiosis with their foetuses and with the ecosystem of other species.
These beings are evolved single-celled hermaphrodites created from natural and digital substances, inspired by the writings of Donna Haraway, an American philosopher and one of the leaders of the feminist thought within the field of gender studies. These more than human creatures are a laboratory of life, an autopoietic system that reproduces itself from its inside. They are therefore non-individualistic mothers who do not belong to a binary gender, living in symbiosis with their foetuses and with the ecosystem of other species.
Their name is Guman.
The use of colourful pollination is a provocation that the artist makes to the patriarchal system, using pollen to represent a ritual of self-fertilisation of creatures.
The choice of exhibiting different media is also part of the
definition of the contemporary hybrid identity between the organic and the technological.
The choice of exhibiting different media is also part of the
definition of the contemporary hybrid identity between the organic and the technological.
"I want to contribute a library of images and experiences between human beings and PostHuman creatures, generating new non-patriarchal kinships; as if in that moment, in that imaginative environment, no prejudice or any anthropocentric conception of comity can be applied."
- Caterina Carraro
Inspired by Donna Haraway "Chthulucene, Staying with the Trouble"
Reproduction
Which genes will survive the current Anthropocene devastation of the planet?
We reproducing our genes in this polluted atmosphere, what cellular mutations are we unwittingly the victims and executioners?
Guman is the only true vital unit that fights without the use of violence for its own survival, it has an intrinsic intelligence that allows it to reproduce itself. They replicates itself leaving a part that can expand in a potentially infinite way.
What we would call mutation by meiosis takes place, a division capable of creating a perfect pearly replica, which like the original lives with and in Gaia: a solution to the inevitable evolutionary consequential extinction.
We reproducing our genes in this polluted atmosphere, what cellular mutations are we unwittingly the victims and executioners?
Guman is the only true vital unit that fights without the use of violence for its own survival, it has an intrinsic intelligence that allows it to reproduce itself. They replicates itself leaving a part that can expand in a potentially infinite way.
What we would call mutation by meiosis takes place, a division capable of creating a perfect pearly replica, which like the original lives with and in Gaia: a solution to the inevitable evolutionary consequential extinction.
Inspired by Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene"