Untitled, 2019
video, 02’17’’
“Interspecies Community” grew out of Chernozem, plastispheres, and meanders of Bauma-type paving blocks. Its purpose is to protect biodiversity and break with the paradigm of Earth’s submission to man. By uniting over species divisions, members demand the abolition of a hierarchical system based on ecocide and sucking saps from the planet. Symbiotically they accumulate in an unlimited variety of rhizomes, backs, feet, fins, perennial, cilia, and hooves.
The community has its own system, doctrine, intestinal bacteria, and cult rituals. One of them is the Bryophyte ritual that takes place at least once a quarter. It is a celebration of the power of decay, which is part of creative, vital matter of compost. The community supports with its spiritual activity grassroots civic movements acting for the good of nature. By means of faith, rituals and direct actions, the community wants to restore subjectivity to the oppressed organisms, and to take care of river currents, ancient forests, but also urban “wasteland full of weeds”. Organisms associated in the community have digested and absorbed through the bloodstream the fact that nature is in them, not outside. To effectively spread the idea of supra-species solidarity, the community aims to enter into register of churches and other religious associations.
