Guston Sondin-Kung

Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask, we were to think about museum collections not just as cultural or artistic objects, but also as equivalent to microbiological labs or as spaces for the cultivation of small beings?

Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019.

Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the Associazone Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy.

“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits – the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the “scientific-poetic cinema”.”