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ADAPT : A MARTIAN BODIES SYMBIOSIS


2021
Moving Image
Duration : 03.53 min

A prospective story re-imagining how we come in relation with our own body and other living species, inhabiting a new planet with caring and conscious ways of living.

Envisaging the obstacles faced by humans’ bodies  in order to adapt to life on Mars.

With references to Donna Haraway : Story Telling for Earthly Survival, 2016; Clara Moskowitz : Surprising sea slug is half-plant, half-animal, 2010, Live Science; Mark Brown : Tiny green bug may be first photosynthetic animal, 2012, Wired.

This project has been developed in collaboration with the students of the Synthetic Anatomy Department at Kings College in London.

Sound recording by Mariam Bergloff.

Thanks to Dr Shelley James and Dr Richard Wingate.


























© 2020 Laurene Pilastre
© 2020 Laurene Pilastre