Antoniya Ivanova

POROUS MATTER

Costume design by Antoniya Ivanova
A performance by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with University of Zurich’s Art x Science department.
It is an interdisciplinary performance that investigates the permeability—the porosity—of the body and explores its relationship to organisms beyond the human: as an open web of relations, permeated by microbes, data, and resonances.

In POROUS MATTER, the body is approached as an archive inscribed with evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological histories. The body becomes a landscape—inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cellular colonies that shape our metabolism, our perception, and our existence. New technologies render these entanglements visible and tangible, reminding us that we are connected beings, that we are “nature.”