Plankton Studio
For the Plankton Studio project, Marta Musso and Riikka Tauriainen invited participants to take a walk and collect water samples in a nearby nature reserve. They provided insights into the microbial diversity of plankton and its role as an ecological indicator and metaphor for queer thinking beyond binary orders. The joint walk became a transdisciplinary space of experience between art, science and the public, in which ecological connections could be sensually experienced and reflected upon together. The installation remaining in the exhibition space documents this process and brings the aesthetic and scientific approaches of the two researchers into a common visual language – as a living interface between field research, illustration and speculative knowledge production.