“IMplant 010 [Entangled relations]” by Donna Davis

Title:

IMplant 010 [Entangled relations]

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Donna Davis

Symposium:

• ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Artist Statement:

IMplant 010 [entangled relations] plays with ideas around biological and ecological hosts with respect to habitat loss; exploring ideas around conservation and inter-species relationships to creatively consider ideas of displacement and imagined interventions as a result of unprecedented and uncertain ecological futures.

This speculative work depicts a human implant device designed to act as a conduit for symbiotic interspecies connection, postulating mycelium as the integral connector between species. The mycelium device appears to float in space as it awaits a human host and compatible plant species to complete the new multi-species union.

Allowing the human to offer themselves as landscape this speculative ‘implant’ explores the idea of agency, manipulation, adaptation and mutation to invite viewers to think about their own relationships with the more than human world.

Ultimately, my work seeks to evoke empathy and contemplation, toying with the uncomfortable reality of habitat loss coupled with futuristic ides of genetically modified interspecies organisms; inviting personal reflection on the direction we are heading as a species.

Category:

• Art Exhibition
• Installation Art