Individual Residencies
2018 | Annabel Howland
Prompted by the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, I launched the research-based project, Producers-Parasites-Hosts, (2012-). The meeting points of art, science and finance are navigated by exploring cooperation/cheating, stability/instability and profit/loss. This project and related work about the 450 million-year old symbioses between plants and fungi focus on two questions: What motivated so many natural scientists to switch to investment banking in the 1980s? How does a fungus ‘decide’ which way to grow to find a plant it can ‘trade’ nutrients with? In Collemacchia walking acted as a performative approach to engage with my guiding theme of ‘switch points’ or decisions that lead to a change of direction.