2020- 2021
artistic research based project focused on the metaphors that fermentation evokes as a practice of envisioning desired futures. Begun during the 2020 pandemic, it reflects collective experience of living through a crisis.
The project includes outcomes such as videos, texts, and story-recipes that explore the correlation between food fermentation practices and social transformations, freed from anthropocentric narratives.
Sour Possibilities treat biochemical processes as a medium for mediation within a social context. Fermentation serves as an accessible simplification of resistance, illustrating how the individual is part of a larger transformation.
By questioning the nature of collective motivation, narrated video seeks to stir, disrupt, and highlight the often-overlooked sensuality of the crisis.
How can a sensing society be cultivated at this particular moment in time? Sour Possibilities aims to nurture at least a small seed of resistance and a sense of coexistence and collaboration—essential elements for finding solidarity in times of crisis.
link to the interview with DOCK20>>
music and voiceover: Zaumne, Mateusz Olszewski
artistic research - video instalation - poetry
Digital video, 03:48 min
shown at DOCK20, Lustenau, Austria, curated by Anne ZühlkeNARATION TXT:
The uniqueness of the unseen begins
during the intentional or accidental
creation of favourable environments.
Shapeless components
are slowly getting into one,
undefined product of time,
the ferment.
-destabilisation of paradigms
in the name of transformation.
When one’s reality is shaken,
being out of balance
creates circumstances
for inventing new and reliable resources.
Reshaping waste is a form of retrospection
-Enclosing a past and changing determined futures.
To handle the problem,
it is necessary to survive with others.
It requires some temporary struggle.
It is time to find yourself, get stability.
Trust in uncertainty as a method.
The unstable character of time is the basis of change.
And do not stop.
This micro-scaled beginning is older than you.
Keep it alive,
even when you feel the desire
to witness the collapse of this hostile environment.
Feel yourself right here, exactly how you are
Pleasant instability- new certainty.
Sometimes, limitless ferment transformation
is led by pressing it together into the mass,
usually with the hands.
It takes muscle to be with others.
Becoming stronger together in competitive surroundings.
Taking self-care is necessary for emotional composting
and subsequent growth it helps correspond to one’s companions.
To understand in spite of circumstances.
To know if you feel the same way.
Wondering who domesticates who,
you still got plenty to prove
What resilience can look like if you are not together
Apparatus on the edge of growth or decay
has no immediate outcomes.
It would need a temporal investment of
individual cracking body power.
Tho, Even the most motivated individual
can have no immediate effect.
Such an investment - Why not collude
in the name of treacherous cooperation
with an enemy
- be the host and be cultivated at the same time.
Liminality of agitation prepares all actors
to take their positions - the ferment will undergo
a continuous change
by itself in its time.
during the intentional or accidental
creation of favourable environments.
Shapeless components
are slowly getting into one,
undefined product of time,
the ferment.
-destabilisation of paradigms
in the name of transformation.
When one’s reality is shaken,
being out of balance
creates circumstances
for inventing new and reliable resources.
Reshaping waste is a form of retrospection
-Enclosing a past and changing determined futures.
To handle the problem,
it is necessary to survive with others.
It requires some temporary struggle.
It is time to find yourself, get stability.
Trust in uncertainty as a method.
The unstable character of time is the basis of change.
And do not stop.
This micro-scaled beginning is older than you.
Keep it alive,
even when you feel the desire
to witness the collapse of this hostile environment.
Feel yourself right here, exactly how you are
Pleasant instability- new certainty.
Sometimes, limitless ferment transformation
is led by pressing it together into the mass,
usually with the hands.
It takes muscle to be with others.
Becoming stronger together in competitive surroundings.
Taking self-care is necessary for emotional composting
and subsequent growth it helps correspond to one’s companions.
To understand in spite of circumstances.
To know if you feel the same way.
Wondering who domesticates who,
you still got plenty to prove
What resilience can look like if you are not together
Apparatus on the edge of growth or decay
has no immediate outcomes.
It would need a temporal investment of
individual cracking body power.
Tho, Even the most motivated individual
can have no immediate effect.
Such an investment - Why not collude
in the name of treacherous cooperation
with an enemy
- be the host and be cultivated at the same time.
Liminality of agitation prepares all actors
to take their positions - the ferment will undergo
a continuous change
by itself in its time.