Metacorpi. Nurturing ecosystemic sensitivity in a museum experience between human and non-human

Abstract

The article presents a collective embodied research in the exhibition Metaspore by Anicka Yi, aimed at exploring the researchers’ ecosystemic sensitivity in meeting the artist’s work. Contemporaneity with its transformations is here interpreted as a systemic process where human and non-human dialogue; the transcending of binary thinking and the metaphor of spores tell about a complex, contaminated and contaminating ecology, between organisms and technology, life and meaning, action and context. The researchers dialogue on experience and representations triggered by the visit, with a pedagogical aim to interrogate the museum’s space as a mesosystem that forms and transforms. The diversity of bodyminds (not least the other visitors’) brings about multiple moving narratives and questions the transformative value of art.