HANNAH HALLAM EAMES will explore microbial economics as interwoven intentionalities built by desire. FLORIS VANHOOF experiments with neuro-cinematic vegetal thinking. ALICIA FRANKOVICH will remap expressions of the natural world through queer voice.

Microbes, like thoughts, are moving entities. Microbial communities develop and exist in constant cycles of metabolic exchange between themselves and other organisms. While these relations can be mutualistic, they can also be ruthless and exploitative. Under biocapitalism, emerging new regimes of accumulation mimic this multiplying modality, harnessing molecular biology and scientific financialisation towards the production of surplus value and the commodification of life itself. In this stage for subjects both very small and very large, through the intermediary presence of human subjects, we explore new rhetorics to give voice to resistant strains, and propagate viral forces of our own.

Alicia Frankovich (NZ), Atlas of the Living World, 16:9 video, colour, sound, 44:39 mins
Live voice performance and immersive audio-visual installation
Video: Alicia Frankovich
Music: Igor Kłaczyński
Voices (Melbourne): Erin Templeton, Diego Ramirez, Joshua Edwards, Mark Rodda, Romy Seven Fox, Rute Chaves, Sean Miles, Supina Bytol
Voices (Amsterdam): Nadia Bekkers, Angelo Custido, Astrit Ismaili, Bear Silver, Cailin Kuit, Joy Mariama Smith, Ksenia Perek, Mavi Veloso, Matthijs Walhout, Nelle Swan

This event is one branch of the WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS? exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub. Plants know worlds, they contain worlds and they make worlds.