Signal Festival 2022 Gallery installation at Kunsthalle Prague Design & Production: Zünc Studio In Plastic Diet, we look into an ocean tank filled with tendrilled creatures twirling past one another. The figures dart around the space among glittering bits of debris, which attach to the sweepers on contact. The mundane task of garbage collection here becomes a glitzy underwater waltz. The work is inspired by newly discovered plastic-eating bacteria, and suggests a future where these organisms have evolved to become self-propelling beings with an appetite for microplastics. As with many things, the solutions to today’s problems are yet to be invented, or evolved. Through photosynthesis, some organisms have evolved to consume plastic waste as their primary carbon source. Plastic Diet also highlights that trees and leafy plants are not the only organisms capable of photosynthesis - in fact, nearly half the oxygen we breathe is generated by ocean-dwelling bacteria and algae. Celebrating the 10th year of Prague's annual festival of digital creative culture, we were invited to contribute a series of works to be displayed at the newly opened Kunsthalle gallery. PHOTOSYSTEM II is a 6-piece series of animated video , first shown during the 4-day festival and then extended to be on display at Kunsthalle for 2 additional months. We created a series of works driven by our fascination with the process of photosynthesis, with each piece posing new interpretations and musings of the power of plants.
