ArteActa 2026, 15
This short essay is inspired by the Arte Acta open call titled Beyond Human Communality: Encounters and Limits, the theme of its 15th issue. The essay introduces the concept of multi-planetary communality to examine how human and more-than-human relations are extended beyond Earth through technological infrastructures, plans for extraction, and imaginaries of space settlement. Drawing on thinkers such as Stacy Alaimo, Hannah Arendt, Bruno Latour, and Elizabeth Povinelli, it argues that extraterrestrial expansion does not represent a departure from earthly conditions, but rather an intensification of existing political, material, and imperial relations....
ArteActa 2026, 15
This exposition discusses artistic research about human relations with non-terrestrial matter. Since 2021, I have developed a series of works that employ meteorites to initiate discussions of the Earth-space complex, specifically human interaction with resources on and off Earth. Within an evolving workshop format that integrates a lecture, storytelling, and somatic exercises, participants interact with meteorites, engaging in multilayered storying about human/non-human relations and how seemingly distant activities in outer space are linked to rather earthly realities. Space Acts, and my research within the postdoc project “Plots of Un·Earthing”,...
ArteActa 2026, 15
Corpus Rhizoma presents an interactive physical-virtual installation that explores the relationships between microorganisms, humans, digital technologies, and their environments. This work investigates the interconnections between humans and invisible microbiota, which become comprehensible only through scientific explanation due to the differences in scale. The installation materialises these connections through mycelium-formed sculptures (branches, stones, and a human foot) arranged on soil, challenging anthropocentric perceptions. Fungi's role in ecological balance through remediation and nutrient cycling represents the symbiotic relationships among...
ArteActa 2026, 15
This paper, presented as a hybrid of creative practice-based research and critical enquiry, asks the question: “How might we, through creative interventions and critical design practice, form intervening positions of and for more-than-human communication?” It introduces a proposed speculative design methodology of Xenomancy, and demonstrates this in practice along with a number of its methods. “Conversations with the Mangrove” is seeking to understand and engage with the more-than-human networks of both digital and physical ecologies. The process involves building relationships with diverse entities, including animals, trees,...
ArteActa 2026, 15
This short essay offers a perspective on multispecies improvisation through a transdisciplinary approach that brings together posthuman theories, new materialism, dark ecology, object-oriented ontology and critical studies of improvised music. More specifically, it analyzes the improvisational practice involving both human elements and plant species, using as a case study my work as a sound artist and improviser in the theatrical performance Pezzo a due con dieci piante, created by the collective conferenza balaam. In this performance, music emerges through improvisation, as I interact with the vegetal component using a synthesizer, an electric bass...
ArteActa 2026, 15
Encounters with biologist Kevin Gaston’s "Ecolight" project—investigating the impact of artificial light on animal ecosystems, and Professor Dan-E. Nilsson’s research into the evolution of animal vision have significantly informed my artistic practice, particularly in the development of Fireflies. Nilsson’s work in computational visual ecology offers speculative insights into how animal behaviours may shift under conditions of light pollution. Complementary to this, Daniel Hanley’s hardware and software tools for translating animal vision into human-perceivable formats further deepen the conceptual and aesthetic grounding...
ArteActa 2026, 15
The project MELT is about longing and grief for a winter landscape that can no longer be taken for granted. With film and performance the climate crisis is explored from the perspective of the Polar Animals. In the exhibition hall the Polar Animals reconstruct their lost habitat of snow and ice based on their memories. Ice melts glaciers are rebuilt, and the fractal patterns of snowflakes are visualized in films projected onto the Iceberg, a mountain built from white cardboard boxes. The habitat of the Polar Animals becomes a space where film performance and installation merge and where the iceberg becomes a stage for dance and meditation. MELT creates...
ArteActa 2026, 15
The project approaches the wolf myth as configured in the Little Red Riding Hood tale, engaging with its psychoanalytic interpretations and their heteronormative assumptions. Against this backdrop, I draw on diffractive methodology and feminist new materialism (Barad, Haraway, Butler) to explore desire not as a projected, one-directional drive but as a phenomenon – emergent, relational, and accountable. The exposition is structured as a nodal weave of photographs, propositions, and curious questions. These invite a non-linear reading in which theory, performance, and photography diffract through one another. In this way, the research gesture...
