Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam

PEST


2019

Site-specific installation

Noc Kultury, Warsaw


VIDEO 6:17


Sound, video, performance, spatial elements

mice, worms, crickets, remains of animals, eggs

Within the space, non-human bodies are

squeezed, adapted, and fully occupy the room.

Our world is losing life, species vanish daily, with

humans at the center of the sixth massextinction.

Fragments from Donna Haraway’s Staying with

the Trouble are read aloud, accompanied by the

voices of beings themselves: furs, shells, and other

remnants.


Life forms entangle with human infrastructures,

fragile andunstable. Visitors move through the

space, observing andtracing patterns of loss and

care. Presence, attention, and small acts of recog-

nition give acknowledgment to their existence.