a study of burden is an ongoing series started at the beginning of 2021, in the pandemic context, and it explores forms – as geometrical morphologies of bodies, and as modes of natural organization, of relating, interconnecting and living-with and in companion with a significant non-human other whose presence can become as concrete as it is usually abstracted. The piece of granite is a displaced remnant of an abandoned landscape, of a former stone quarry in Măcin Mountains, which was held by an Italian family more than a century ago, and it tells the story of bodies which after years of industrial exploitation start to be considered disposable and rendered obsolete, living behind traces of different soil and subsoil geo-arrangements. By looking into patterns of agential and epistemological positioning towards and in conjunction in a continuum of altered spatio-temporalities, a study of burden intends to communicate not only exhausted bodies, but also the exhaustion and depletion of productivity itself.

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phytoplastia is a self-published research document, delivered as an essay on the ecological relations of plants and their agency in morphing the materiality of the world/nature/reality. Words intercalate a series of six small abstract drawings which imagine the plasticity of the vegetal line as titled the line is not a line but the sequence. phytoplastia accompanied five-liter-ecosphere – an installation of three plant-wired glass terrariums by Anca Bucur made in collaboration w/ Sergiu Nisioi, included Liminal group show. The glass terrariums also worked as speakers recording the series of sounds produced by plants when growing and relating with each other, different layers of soil, bacteria and collected pebbles and pieces of stones. The title of the installation is an appropriation of microbiologist Clair Folsome’s sealed ecosphere, made in 1968 and which informed his later work The Origin of Life: A Warm Little Pond.

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