The Living Seam of Time
Artist
Nvisible Studio
Format
Video
Year
2021
“There is no main voice. There is no lead tune. There is no central planning. Nonetheless, a form emerges.”
‘Polyphony’ describes a musical texture with simultaneous, yet independent melodic trajectories. As proposed by mycologist Merlin Shieldrake (Entangled Life, 2020), mycelium can be understood as a polyphony of voices in a bodily form: Decentralized and underground, each hyphal tip explores the soil on its own while at the same time belonging to a single interlinked entity.
The Living Seam (2021) was filmed for the Natural History Museum of Lost Ecology in July 2021 at the Błędów Desert in Poland in the context of the LIOS Labs arts and ecology research platform. The soundtrack is composed by Venezuelan artist David J. Adan (Doppelgänger). Drone videography by Janusz Obirek.
Nvisible Studio
Website
nvisible.studio
NVISIBLE.STUDIO is the independent research practice of Finnish filmmaker and visual artist Emilia Tapprest (b. 1992). Arriving from an industrial design background, she turned to cinema as a means to engage with the complexity and intensity of embodied, lived experiences. Drawing these two fields together, she explores ways in which designed systems, infrastructures and interfaces interact with us in affective- and preconscious ways. With a collaborative design degree at the Aalto University in Helsinki, Tapprest graduated in 2019 from the Sandberg Institute’s temporary film department. Previous resident of the Jan van Eyck academy and FilmForward, her collaborative work has been presented at international platforms such as Kunstverein Schattendorf, Impakt Festival, Vdrome, VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Bologna Art City, Extended Senses and the National Space Centre Ireland. She is part of the world-building research duo Liminal Vision and is currently based in Amsterdam.
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
‘Hygrocybe citrinovirens’, also known as citrine waxcap, is a mushroom belonging to the waxcap genus Hygrocybe. Waxcaps are typically vibrantly colored, characterised by an agaric type of fruiting body with sticky caps, white spores and smooth, ringless stems. Like other Hygrophorus species, Hygrocybe citrinovirens form close symbiotic relations with the roots of living trees. Its conservation status is threatened worldwide, partly caused by the closure of open areas, construction and chemical side effects.
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