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.