Joëlle Pidoux

Future correspondences is an art installation and performance about microorganisms. The space is covered with soil and has stations containing various bacteria cultures. Via a projection screen, the audience is literally part of the performance. The GoPro camera mounted on the body of the performer livestreams what is happening within the space. Appearing almost like in a video game, the audience witnesses a micro world – from the bacteria living on our bodies to the bacteria living within our bodies – without which human life wouldn’t be possible. The sound in the performance – or the continuous whispering voices we hear – are speeches from researchers, philosophers and scientists. In their talks, they make observations on the interconnectivity – or symbiosis – between human bodies and microorganisms. Tobias Rees, an anthropologist and philosopher,  reminds us that the human neurotransmitters in our brain are produced by the bacteria we have in our gut, and this bacteria population  depends on the food we eat. It means that our mind, “our most intimate self” so to say, actually depends on agriculture.

Mycelium growth @Synnika Space, Frankfurt am Main, 2021. 

https://vimeo.com/718300247

is a sound performance with Philipp Kehder about the cycles of water and our - human and nonhuman - relation to it. 

10.07.2020, Hafenplatz, Offenbach am Main, Germany

“Life as surplus”, 2020.

“Growth” (part 2) is the falling sculpture made of soil and mycelium. The brutal crash of the sculpture, or better said the shift from the ordinary to the extraordinary in order to represent the fragility in the relation between humans and its own environment. 

Photo credit: Robert Schittko

Maybe because all is happening so fast?

When will come the flood again? 

My last works *Tiefsee” (deep sea) exhibited in the “Tiefsee raum” (deep sea space) of our school reflect a possible near future where the lack of water cristallised the relation between humans and the environment. 

My last works *Tiefsee” (deep sea) exhibited in the “Tiefsee raum” (deep sea space) of our school reflect a possible near future where the lack of water cristallised the relation between humans and the environment. 

“Footprint” is a serie of works in process. Extractivism is a recurrent theme and inspiration in my work. Humans still consider nature as a resource, a capital. Installing a divot with a rubber boot on a tar ground roof top with a view on the new buildings and a crane finds meaning for me. Above all when the collected soil comes actually from 5 jeopardized grounds between Offenbach and Frankfurt. Nature under control, disappearing nature: two contradictions of a reality still valid.