A living potato decomposes over time. A seemingly alchemical process transforms living matter into a supple, atemporal, odorless piece. How durable is bioplastic? Who negotiates the degree of solubility? Is non-toxicity the criterium? In her research, Gülşah investigates the thermoplasticity of starch. Plants store energy in the form of starch. Animal bodies can’t make starch; they digest it to obtain energy. Humans learned to transform it outside of their bodies, too, to make fuel or different materials.
Sina Ribak
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Alchemic Cooking/ Workshop/ Matter of Flux Festival
Did you hear the tuber murmuring? Gathering in the kitchen we get a feeling of textures, smells, processes and relations involving potatoes, perennial herbs and other beings. While peeling potatoes, we work on our alchemic notebook and imagine conversations among tubers, rosemary, insects, herbalists, artists…
Read MoreOÌR SOMOS RÌO at a ‘book is a room where we can meet’
For the first time, the bilingual edition of OÍR SOMOS RÍO / Flussrauschen Flusslauschen initiated and edited by Magdalena Walpoth & Elkin Claderón is presented. At this occasion, Sina Ribak accompanies the collective reading enfolding within ‘a book is a room where we can meet‘ created by Jana Maria Dohmann & Nadine Vollmer | Kulturen des Kuratorischen. Illustration by Ana Delgado.
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