Digital Sustainability: From Resilience to Transformation

Category

Festival

Year

2022

Institution

Comment

Inspired by forms of animism, herbalism, panpsychism, and the care of sustenance networks, Badani’s 3D animations explore the intersectionality of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, a bio-based symbiotic interaction unfolded in Badani’s incubator when mold took over decomposing vegetables and fruits, creating trans-species assemblages. The DIY lab experiment established a discreet sustenance network between 3 actors (bio-sculpture material / mold and fungi / human facilitator), suggesting a system in which different bodies, organisms, and species were in the process of becoming with each other through resilience and transformation – inspiring “Bichicuchitu” and “Bichicu-Chow”.