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Pocket 5: Future organisms

How porous are you?

À quel point es-tu poreux·se ?

Comment habiter la T(t)erre ?” (Natacha Duviquet)

## MallardTV, Lichen on fallen tree branch, 2024. Public domain accessed wikimedia commons.

The soil of planet Earth is a porous surface.

“Critters – human and not – become-with each other, compose and decompose each other, in every scale and register of time.” (Donna Haraway)

## Artist Marylou at SIANA (2024), Image credit and copyright Zoé Thiburs.

Is it possible to leave Earth, without leaving ourselves behind?

“I propose that we merge aspects of ourselves with an organism, lichen, that can deal with the ravages of space.” (Adriana Knouf)

## Adriana Knouf, Amateur Lithopanspermia (2022).

Reading material

Marylou, artist website and residency at SIANA, 2023 - 2024.

S+T+ARTS: Adriana Knouf: Amateur Lithopanspermia, Art Hub Copenhagen, 2022.

Helen Pynor, 93% Human, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2023.

Mikaela Karlsson, {queering space}, Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies (daas), n.d.

Donna Haraway, “Sympoiesis: Symboigenesis and the Living Arts of Staying with the Trouble”, in: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

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