Viola Arduini: Life & Death, an interspecies genetic storytelling
The protein that allows placenta formation in humans comes from retroviruses; microorganisms shaped our motherhood. Mass extinctions are loss of stories. While I am writing this, a virus, a piece of RNA with a crown of proteins, is deeply changing our lives. When a species dies off, their songs disappear with them. Thinking of DNA as a language and exchange of information crucial for doing and undoing life, is at the center of my recent body of works, Ananke (the Necessity). Genetics as interspecies teaching in the bodies, deaths, cultures and learnings of humans and more-than-humans.
Other contributors: All the organisms that share this genetic living, learning, and dying with us.
