Compère Collective, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Supported by Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Residency Unlimited, LES Studio Program, and Compère Collective, NYC
Interactive transmedia installation with 48 biopolymer objects, 11 audio compositions and 11 black-and-white graphic works
There’s An Alligator on the Second Floor is an installation developed from a self-produced biopolymer formulation and a series of graphic and sound works. The project explores how plants and animals might formally adapt to rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in a warming world.
The biomorphic objects, black-and-white graphics and audio compositions form a shared spatial constellation. Together they reflect on ecological transformation, bodily adaptation and the question of how life might reorganize itself under conditions of climate instability.
Visitors could access the sound works through their smartphones and move through the installation as active participants. The project connects speculative ecological form with narratives of self-produced biological plastic, opening a space between vulnerability, agency and material possibility in the face of global warming and corporate monopolization.
