Nothing is connected to everything; everything is connected to something

Joanna Wierzbicka – Nothing is connected to everything; everything is connected to something

What is a body, where does it start, where does it end? How do we experience having a body and being a body, especially among other bodies? How can we resituate ourselves within earth others, and rethink relations on a wider level between human and nonhuman actants to account for a more ethical living? The project aims to interrogate the notion of bodily matter, recapture our corporeality and challenge the assumption that our bodies end at the skin. Instead, they are redefined as radically open systems, human and non-human assemblages, corporeal chimeras, microbiotic multi-species in the constant process of becoming. Matter, when recognised as an active agent, helps to acknowledge infinite interactions within complex networks of agency between various porous corporealities and entities. Trans-corporeality disrupts divisions between a body and the world. Bodies leave traces everywhere, ascribing themselves into various corporeal, technological, political narratives, but also traces are ascribed onto bodies - mediating and altering their flesh. As captured by Haraway in the figuration of compost - we are always becoming with others, together creating a lively matter of compost, composing and decomposing each other. “Nothing is connected to everything, everything is connected to something” takes a form of an installation, a speculative self-portrait as compost, built out of images of my own body (made with different apparatuses including Scanning Electron Microscope, digital microscopes) mixed with still lifes of food and different materials representing the transformation and movement, as in compost. Additionally, sculptures are accompanied by the video that expands on the idea of corporeal companionship and brings in the notion of uncanny-like lump of flesh covered with skin. It is a performative act, a result of wondering how to become a microorganism, a bacteria and if I am already enough of one. All the parts of installation, exploring the line between oppositions such as human/nonhuman, internal/external, self/the other, refer to the definition of an abject and are meant to translate that moment, or a sensation - how a breakdown in meaning, something expelled from “I” eventually comes to define “I”.

Projet de diplôme (2021) par Joanna Wierzbicka

What is a body, where does it start, where does it end? How do we experience having a body and being a body, especially among other bodies? How can we resituate ourselves within earth others, and rethink relations on a wider level between human and nonhuman actants to account for a more ethical living?

The project aims to interrogate the notion of bodily matter, recapture our corporeality and challenge the assumption that our bodies end at the skin. Instead, they are redefined as radically open systems, human and non-human assemblages, corporeal chimeras, microbiotic multi-species in the constant process of becoming. Matter, when recognised as an active agent, helps to acknowledge infinite interactions within complex networks of agency between various porous corporealities and entities. Trans-corporeality disrupts divisions between a body and the world. Bodies leave traces everywhere, ascribing themselves into various corporeal, technological, political narratives, but also traces are ascribed onto bodies - mediating and altering their flesh. As captured by Haraway in the figuration of compost - we are always becoming with others, together creating a lively matter of compost, composing and decomposing each other.

“Nothing is connected to everything, everything is connected to something” takes a form of an installation, a speculative self-portrait as compost, built out of images of my own body (made with different apparatuses including Scanning Electron Microscope, digital microscopes) mixed with still lifes of food and different materials representing the transformation and movement, as in compost. Additionally, sculptures are accompanied by the video that expands on the idea of corporeal companionship and brings in the notion of uncanny-like lump of flesh covered with skin. It is a performative act, a result of wondering how to become a microorganism, a bacteria and if I am already enough of one. All the parts of installation, exploring the line between oppositions such as human/nonhuman, internal/external, self/the other, refer to the definition of an abject and are meant to translate that moment, or a sensation - how a breakdown in meaning, something expelled from “I” eventually comes to define “I”.

2021_MAP2_DIPLOMA_DOCU_WierzbickaJoanna_1.jpg
2021_MAP2_DIPLOMA_DOCU_WierzbickaJoanna_2.jpg
2021_MAP2_Diploma_YWierzbickaJoanna_NothingIsConnectedToEverythingEverythingIsConnectedToSomething_04.jpg
2021_MAP2_Diploma_YWierzbickaJoanna_NothingIsConnectedToEverythingEverythingIsConnectedToSomething_06.jpg

Projets similaires

WORKSHOP - CGI WITH AREA OF WORK – 2025

MA PHOTOGRAPHIE

WORKSHOP - CGI WITH AREA OF WORK – 2025

with Area Of Work

Ce workshop est une introduction aux logiciels de création 3D qui permettent de réaliser des images aux qualités photographiques qui ne sont pas des photographies.

ECAL x PAPERBOY

MA PHOTOGRAPHIE

ECAL x PAPERBOY

with Charles Negre, Milo Keller, Clément Lambelet, Tanguy Morvan

Paperboy ECAL est le fruit d'une étroite collaboration entre Paperboy Magazine et les étudiant·e·s de première année du Master Photographie de l'ECAL. Sous la houlette du photographe Charles Negre , ils·elles ont exploré le potentiel des objets du quotidien pour créer des natures mortes mystérieuses et ludiques.

L'ECAL à OFFPRINT Paris 2025

MA PHOTOGRAPHIE

L'ECAL à OFFPRINT Paris 2025

with Bruno Ceschel, Nicolas Polli, Milo Keller, Clément Lambelet

Durant Paris Photo 2025, l'ECAL présente une sélection de ses livres à l'occasion de OFFPRINT Paris. Le Master Photographie de l’ECAL a le plaisir de présenter une sélection de livres réalisés par ses étudiant·e·s de deuxième année. Cet événement sera l’occasion d’échanger en direct avec les jeunes photographes autour de la genèse de leurs projets et des histoires qui se cachent derrière chacun de ces ouvrages.

Daniel Martinez – A River Has No Shore

MA PHOTOGRAPHIE

Daniel Martinez – A River Has No Shore

by Daniel Martinez

Du glacier alpin à la Méditerranée, le Rhône traverse grottes de glace, forêts, villes et zones industrielles. Il soutient des écosystèmes, relie des cultures et façonne des territoires. Mais les eaux du monde charrient aujourd’hui des récits de crise et de désastre. Le changement climatique affecte aussi notre vie émotionnelle, nourrissant l’éco-anxiété et la solastalgie. A River Has No Shore explore cette détresse en suivant l’eau du Rhône, dans ses formes multiples, comme reflet des bouleversements contemporains.

Doyoung Kim – Flattened Roughness

MA PHOTOGRAPHIE

Doyoung Kim – Flattened Roughness

by Doyoung Kim

L’œuvre Flattened Roughness explore la consommation d’images de guerre et la culpabilité qui en découle. Le photographe collecte et imprime des images de mort, puis les lèche et les absorbe physiquement, affrontant la distance émotionnelle et physique créée par les médias. Les caméras des drones-suicides mesurent sans cesse la distance aux humains pour détruire. Dans ce processus, la distance entre les humains est oubliée. Pour surmonter cette distance, il introduit ces images dans son corps. Cet acte, où l’intimité et la brutalité coexistent, transforme le voyeurisme en deuil et en soin, confrontant son humanité perdue. Par la performance sensorielle, il réduit l’écart entre lui-même et la mort médiatisée, explorant le conflit entre émotion émoussée et sensation.

Formations liées