The research project T3RRAPATHY will take the form of an audiovisual artwork that aims to examine different waste products which permeate the human body with a specific focus on heavy metals. They become part of the humans’ metabolism and are deemed as something to get rid of. In a speculative scenario, we open the discussion about intrusive waste: In the near future, human society will be politically split around the phenomenon of heavy metals in the body. The ambiguity lies between the toxicity of heavy metals and an unexpected influence on human senses. One side of society will radically attempt to flush the material out in order to strive for a certain standard of health and purity, whilst the other side will deliberately ingest it. Reason for ingesting it is a newfound phenomenon within the human body induced by the waste material. It opens uncharted relations between the Earth and humans – new modes of bodily perception and empathy towards the planet.
This project is a collective work between Anastasia Almosova, Berkay Soykan and Philipp Dollinger. Within a new-found collective, they critically engage with digital technology as a means of experimental artmaking. They are three art students from the University of Arts in Berlin with the main focus on experimental film. Their work is concerned with topics of speculative science fiction, new materialisms, queer-feminist studies and non-human perspectives, which reflects itself in their research-driven artistic practice. The mediums they work with include CGI, game engines, film, photogrammetry and experimental photography.