The Sound of the Links

Diane Bécheras – The Sound of the Links

Inspired by the text The Camille Stories written by Donna Haraway, somewhere in the future, groups of people are organizing themselves into micro societies. The installation The Sound of the Links is a fragment of this civilization about how humans experience communication with plants in an attempt to rebuild a way of living in communion with the species that surround them. I would like to raise awareness about these imperceptible phenomena discovered by biologists, so that we can imagine a different relationship to the world than that of exploitation.

Diploma project (2019) by Diane Bécheras

Assistants
Tibor Udvari
Know-how
Robotics, Scenography, Sound, Fiction, Installation, Electronics
Photo ECAL/Calypso Mahieu

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