POROUS MATTER
What if we understood our bodies not as closed organisms, but as open networks of relationships?
POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance exploring the permeability—the porosity—of the body and its relationship to organisms beyond the human.
Developed by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, POROUS MATTER examines the body as a living community, inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cell colonies that shape our metabolism, perception, and existence. The body is approached as an archive inscribed with evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological stories.
The staging unfolds at the intersection of physical and virtual worlds. In interaction with video, mirrors, and sound textures, the performers’ bodies merge with digital structures, multiply or fragment, oscillating between solid and fluid states.
Through the interplay of movement, sound, and image, an immersive space emerges—one that transforms like a living membrane: layered, breathing, and in continuous metamorphosis.
TEAM
A performance by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with the University of Zurich
What if we understood our bodies not as closed organisms, but as open networks of relationships?
POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance exploring the permeability—the porosity—of the body and its relationship to organisms beyond the human.
Developed by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists, POROUS MATTER examines the body as a living community, inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cell colonies that shape our metabolism, perception, and existence. The body is approached as an archive inscribed with evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological stories.
The staging unfolds at the intersection of physical and virtual worlds. In interaction with video, mirrors, and sound textures, the performers’ bodies merge with digital structures, multiply or fragment, oscillating between solid and fluid states.
Through the interplay of movement, sound, and image, an immersive space emerges—one that transforms like a living membrane: layered, breathing, and in continuous metamorphosis.