In the part of HYBRID MATTERs called invitations Lindström and Ståhl have during 2015 and 2016 invited participants to explore hybrid matters. The invitations to public engagement events across the Nordic countries have started off with a couple of recent academic articles that deal with plastics - one on plastiglomerates (Corcoran et al 2014) and one on common meal worms that can biodegrade Styrofoam (Yang et al 2015). Based on the ethnographic material and interventions Lindström and Ståhl have written an imagined dialogue between a ragpicker who collects plastiglomerates and a composter who tries out domestic plastic composting. The speculative fiction is called Plastic Imaginaries - the ragpicker meets the composter and can be read in its entirety in the HYBRID MATTERs exhibition....

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Mosses are tiny organisms with slow temporalities of growth which can decipher the secrets of life on Earth. They pioneer the land when glaciers step back, preparing the land to be refilled by a rich biodiversity. They welcome life in a modest exchange of moisture and some sunlight. Because of its reduced size and simplicity they can resist in harsh conditions constraining their rate of growth and becoming one of the most efficient organism on this planet. In times of drought, the enter a suspended animation state (anabiosis) surviving for years waiting for the water to come back. Some species can also survive on polar caps; growing moss remained alive while frozen for 40,000 years in the permafrost of the Kolyma Lowlands of northeastern Siberia together with fossil diatoms, bacteria,...

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I arrived to the residency with absolutely no idea on what to do during the two weeks. My baggage was lost by the airline and I had very limited clothing, so I couldn’t even explore the surroundings. The temperature was superhot during the day, surprisingly enough. That’s not what one expects from Lapland when one only knows that place by stories and documentaries.

I started to read Jodorowsky’s “The Way of Tarot”. My friend Alessandro, with whom I share the first name and our first eight years of school in Italy, had been reading tarot for me a couple of times before, back in Italy. He’s very passionate about psychology and he explained me how Jodorowsky’s way to interpret tarot cards – the same cards he restored comparing different historical decks of Tarot de Marseille – had...

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