ENDO/EXO(GEN[I]OUS)
We are telling a story through a botanist/climatologist’s eyes.
An art collaboration with Jai Haissman a BodyMind hacker, commissioned stone sculptor, founder of Affective Interfaces, a multiple award-winning emotion-sensing technology company, and Rolfer / Somatic Experiencing Practitioner fusing the phenomenological with the philosophical.


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WHAT
SCENT and Memories
WHEN
FUTURE
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A short story as a graphic novelette to examine how exogenous and foreign objects transform the perspective of our protagonist. They get amnesia from an impact while doing research on effects of climate change on sea level rise; a concussion causes them to lose their memory and sense of smell. Tragically their essential research is lost to the amnesia, but in an effort to recover memory, they discover an archivist and scholar who has preserved essential oils and the DNA of some plant species that have been submerged. Set ~200 years in the future, much of the world is under water, and much plant life is either gone or hydroponic. Consequently, the sensual richness of original smells have been lost, also as a result of over-hybridization, or replacement with synthetic copies. The evocative power of smell helps our protagonist recover their memory, and essential research...
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We are called to explore the questions:
— How the foreign can emerge from within?
— How can the foreign become native?
— How does the exogenous become endogenous? The endogenous the exogenous?
We juxtapose the endo vs exogenous to frame the dynamics of foreignness as a disruptive and destructive genius to explore ethno-cultural, ecosystem, global warming, Industrial Age evolutions.
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