»POROUS MATTER«

The body is a repos­i­to­ry of evo­lu­tion­ary mem­o­ries, fos­sil traces and micro­bi­o­log­i­cal his­to­ries. Bac­te­ria, fun­gi and cell colonies shape metab­o­lism, per­cep­tion and exis­tence – and make the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty of our sys­tem pal­pa­ble in the con­text of species extinc­tion. What does this under­stand­ing mean for our con­cep­tion of the body and for our exis­tence in the world? The body as a per­me­able net­work, as porous mat­ter, is exam­ined, and the city is its land­scape in which the con­nec­tions between microbes, humans and nature can be direct­ly expe­ri­enced.

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