Metaspore: Cosmopolitical Biopolitics and Multispecies Potentialities in Anicka Yi’s Ecoart

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_18205
dc.contributor.author	Montecchio Ludovica
dc.title	Metaspore: Cosmopolitical Biopolitics and Multispecies Potentialities in Anicka Yi’s Ecoart
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Anicka Yi’s exhibition Metaspores at Pirelli HangarBicocca showcased her bioart and ecoart pieces, using living organisms and AIs to explore symbiotic relationships in the world. The exhibition used the concept of spores and mycelium networks as a metaphor for art’s ability to inoculate and distribute collective intelligence. Yi’s ‘biopolitics of the senses’ aimed to overcome sensory bias, sculpting air with fragrances and reconfiguring what it means to be human in a cosmopolitical way. By portraying the pluriverse of microbes and machines, the exhibition challenged our perception of non-human and more-than-human entities in the world.
dc.relation.ispartof	The Future Contemporary
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-14
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-07-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-756-2/metaspore-cosmopolitical-biopolitics-and-multispec/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-756-2/008
dc.identifier.issn	2785-1613
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-0986
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-756-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Biopolitics
dc.subject	Cosmopolitics
dc.subject	Eco-art
dc.subject	Networks
dc.subject	Speculative practices
dc.subject	Spores
dc.subject	Synesthesia

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Metaspore: Cosmopolitical Biopolitics and Multispecies Potentialities in Anicka Yi’s Ecoart

Ludovica Montecchio Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Anicka Yi’s exhibition Metaspores at Pirelli HangarBicocca showcased her bioart and ecoart pieces, using living organisms and AIs to explore symbiotic relationships in the world. The exhibition used the concept of spores and mycelium networks as a metaphor for art’s ability to inoculate and distribute collective intelligence. Yi’s ‘biopolitics of the senses’ aimed to overcome sensory bias, sculpting air with fragrances and reconfiguring what it means to be human in a cosmopolitical way. By portraying the pluriverse of microbes and machines, the exhibition challenged our perception of non-human and more-than-human entities in the world.

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Dec. 14, 2023

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Sept. 15, 2023

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July 11, 2023

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978-88-6969-756-2

Keywords: Eco-art • Spores • Speculative practices • Synesthesia • Biopolitics • Networks • Cosmopolitics

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