There’s An Alligator on the Second Floor is an interactive transmedia installation developed from a self-produced biopolymer formulation together with graphic and sound works. The project explores how plants and animals might adapt in form under rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in a warming world.
There’s An Alligator and ecological adaptation
The installation brings together 48 biomorphic biopolymer objects, 11 black-and-white graphic works, and 11 audio compositions. These elements form a shared spatial constellation shaped by ecological transformation, bodily adaptation, and climatic pressure. The biomorphic objects suggest altered growth, mutation, and thermal stress. The graphic works condense these shifts into reduced visual structures, while the sound pieces extend the project into an acoustic field.
Visitors could access the sound works through their smartphones and move through the installation as active participants. Through this movement, the work unfolded as a physical, visual, and auditory environment. In There’s An Alligator, material experimentation connects with questions of climate instability, vulnerability, and agency.
The project also reflects on self-produced biological plastic as a material with speculative and political force. It opens a space around environmental change, corporate monopolization, and the possibility of new material imaginaries. Within this setting, There’s An Alligator moves between speculative ecology, transmedia installation, and spatial experience.
Context
Compère Collective, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Supported by Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Residency Unlimited, LES Studio Program, and Compère Collective, NYC
Medium
Interactive transmedia installation with 48 biopolymer objects, 11 audio compositions, and 11 black-and-white graphic works
