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Title: 
Science friction. Life between companion species
Date: 
29-11-22 / 26-02-23
Place: 
Lantegia 1, floor 1
Artist(s): 
Ptqk, María (1976- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Type: 
Exhibition
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Summary: 

The latest advances in biology and environmental sciences prove all living things on the Earth are interdependent. According to this perspective, life is a single unique fabric comprising links between organisms and ecosystems, living multiplicities integrated in one another.
Science friction explores this change in perspective via the work of two scientists and essential thinkers today; namely biologist Lynn Margulis, whose theory on the role of symbiosis in evolution lays the foundations for a new history of life; and philosopher and biologist Donna Haraway, whose work delves into the narrative power of scientific knowledge and its condition as a “story machine” on the world and our place in it. In other words, the title Science friction works in two ways as explained by the exhibition curator, Maria Ptqk. On the one hand, it points out the frictions derived from viewing life as a great symbiotic assembly whilst on the other alluding to the urgency to invent other science f(r) ictions, fables or speculative stories, enlarging the imaginable thereby helping to locate ourselves within the emerging inter-species paradigm. “So if this is true as purported by Haraway and Margulis, and that the entire World is alive, then, now is the time to discard the myth of supremacy and renew contact with our numerous terrestrial companions.”
Science friction. Life between companion species expands its content with a podcast cycle on AZ Irratia. Azkuna Zentroa radio. Through interviews with artists and local agents, the exhibition's gaze is extended to issues such as the landscape, livestock, agriculture, fungi or marine fauna and flora. The public program of the exhibition includes guided tours with the curator, María Ptqk, and mediation activities with the school public.

Related activities: 
Ciencia Fricción. Vida entre especies compañeras [Podcast]
In Mediateka: 
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