SCIENCE FRICTION, LIFE BETWEEN COMPANION SPECIES

29.11.2022 - 26.02.2023

Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao, Bilbao / España
Museo del Hongo

The latest advances in biology and environmental sciences prove all living things on the Earth are interdependent. According to this perspective, life is a single unique fabric comprising links between organisms and ecosystems, living multiplicities integrated in one another.

"Science friction" explores this change in perspective via the work of two scientists and essential thinkers today; namely biologist Lynn Margulis, whose theory on the role of symbiosis in evolution lays the foundations for a new history of life; and philosopher and biologist Donna Haraway, whose work delves into the narrative power of scientific knowledge and its condition as a “story machine” on the world and our place in it....

In other words, the title Science friction works in two ways as explained by the exhibition curator, Maria Ptqk. On the one hand, it points out the frictions derived from viewing life as a great symbiotic assembly whilst on the other alluding to the urgency to invent other science f(r) ictions, fables or speculative stories, enlarging the imaginable thereby helping to locate ourselves within the emerging inter-species paradigm. “So if this is true as purported by Haraway and Margulis, and that the entire World is alive, then, now is the time to discard the myth of supremacy and renew contact with our numerous terrestrial companions.”

[Quelle: https://www.azkunazentroa.eus/en/activity/science-friction-life-between-companion-species/, 19.10.2022]