QUO ARTIS, Barcelona

Trans*Plant: connecting with mycorrhiza intranet [edible version]

Q.R*3 – Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR) + Roger Rabbitch (ES) + Rebeca Paz (ES)

“2024. March 8. The annual resources of the Earth have been exhausted. The equivalent of 4 planets is needed to satisfy human consumption. From a VPN of a second Internet, a group of biohackers, Q.R*3, tries to connect with the mycorrhiza, a network composed of a symbiosis between roots and fungi through which the terrestrial plant world communicates. The first members of this group died immediately under the effect of an unknown molecule. Nothing is known about the rest of the group.”

Species Reclamation Via a Non-linear Genetic Timeline: An Attempted Hymenochirus curtipes Model Induced by Controlled Breeding

Brandon Ballengèe (US)

This project involved the selective breeding of frogs from the Hymenochirus family, located in the Congo. There, biodiversity is threatened by forest clearing and increased demand for wood. Also, political turmoil in Congo has limited biological studies and conservation efforts. In their native habitat, wild Hymenochirus populations may currently be in decline or have become extinct.

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer

Maja Smrekar (SI)

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.

Utopia

Joaquín Fargas (AR)

Artistic project with the mission to raise awareness about climate change, the melting of ice and the problem of water.

Biosphere

Joaquín Fargas (AR)

The Biosphere Project’s mission is to collaborate in raising awareness about the fragility of our planet Earth and the need to take care of it.