Rhiza is an interspecies connector that invites you to plant your bare feet on her mycelium. Through the skin, your biggest organ to sense the outer world, you can connect with the mycelium’s electrical communication. This hybrid sensation between mushrooms and mycelium’s bio feedback is then transferred back to your body via light and tactile sensory impulses.
Rhiza emerged as an aspiration to enable human beings to transgress their own species and connect with otherness in multiple ways. This complex network with their subtle blend of cooperation and conflict can be seen as an example for how we relate with each other, and our environmental systems. Just like human society, this growing inter-species society is characterized by variety, with its capacity to help and to hinder, to cooperate and to exploit. Nature is built on connections, and so are we.
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This project has received funding from ÖH Projektförderung.
Noor Stenfert Kroese works with embodied interactive installations at the intersection of science, technology and human activity. She works across various media such as light, new media and bio-art. Creating space to experience and reflect on developments in science, society and technology that seem elusive but are essential for discovering where humanity is going. Her practice zooms in on an abstract subject,converting it into a physically embodied experience. In order to connect with ideas, space, emotions and the other. A moment of reflection in a reality that continues to develop faster and faster. Her work does not provide a direct answer but seeks the space to ask questions and to experience them in a world in which you consciously take a place in a moving, uncontrollable network.
Interface Cultures Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival 2021
