NON-EXISTANT FRONTIERS
16.07.2020
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NON-EXISTANT FRONTIERS
"I will argue that the distinction between a "living planet" (a geologically active planet) and a living cell is only a matter of definition. There is no strict dividing line. Geochemistry gives way to biochemistry seamlessly. From this point of view, the fact that we cannot distinguish between geology and biology in these ancient rocks is appropriate. Here we have a living planet giving rise to life, and the two cannot be separated without breaking a continuum." Nick Lane, The Vital Question (2015).
The skin as a boundary between inside and outside. Its outermost layers functioning as permeable protectors between one world and the other. The border between two geographical spaces deliberately defined by humans. Skin cells considered alive, but their individual components not. The border between the living and the non-living, more than microscopic, is unrecognizable, indescribable, impossible to find. Is the border of the living in the carbon bonds capable of creating compound molecules or in the elements that compose the medium in which life appears? - Gaia as a living organism that creates life and also creates non-life. A virus, a microorganism that is not formed by cells, constituted by genetic material, but that does not comply with some of the rules to be considered a living being. Nucleic acid inside a protein capsule in search of a living organism in order to reproduce itself. A non-living life form. How can a non-living organism jeopardize the living? What is living in organisms considered living? How can we understand the living and the non-living in new ways?
In Non-Existant Frontiers we want to question and explore all the boundaries that only exist in our current narratives, but are not perceptible or distinguishable when we go deeper into observation. Boundaries that are imposed, invented or that science has not been able to discover or establish. Limits that lead us today to tensions, discrimination and social fragmentation. How far does particle physics go in the search for the limit of matter? How far does geography go in the search for the limit in a river that divides two regions? How far does the social define borders in gender?
PARTICIPANTS
Carlos Eduardo Maldonado
David Paipa
Indemo - Juan David Bermúdez
Mariana Schuster
Salomé Rojas
Sebastián Duque
Tecnocuir - Daniel Arango, Heidy Sandoval
Time Canvases - María Alejandra Bulla
COLLABORATORS
Juan Diego Rivera
Lina García
Paula Londoño
Sebastián Torres
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Organized together with:
Juan FM
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