14–18 March
Opening: 14 March at 6 pm
Closing: 18 March at 7 pm and open during the Bazaar Festival events in AVU Veletržní between 14–18 March

An installation at this year’s BAZAAR invites us to return to the body’s aquatic memory, encountering the ocean as a place for play, remembrance and reconnection. Through simple gestures and materials, Ghosts of Oceans Inside Us ushers us into a playground where the terrestrial body can momentarily dissolve, float and remember where it comes from.

playground

“Every embryo grows in its own private ocean, 

a reminder that the beginning of life is never dry. 

You can’t grow a dog, or a human, or a cow without water holding it first. 

We, the land creatures, are the odd ones. 

The freaks who decided to live this way. 

In this playground, the ocean returns. 

You take a string in your hand. 

You remember what it’s like to be in water. 

To float. To drift. To be surrounded. 

To befriend a teabag.” 

Ghost Compost collective draws on a theoretical tradition shaped by Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway. Bringing together performance and visual art, the collective works with DIY methods, posthumanist thinking and ironic distancing. Ghost  Compost collective is interested in processes of mutual understanding between humans and the more-than-human world, and how these relationships enable new ways of acting.

This installation was created in dialogue with artists Yanina Arlova and Světlana Silič and scientists Max Rykaczewski and Jakub Fikowicz-Krosko from the Faculty of Microbiology at the University of Gdańsk. The project was developed during a Nature of Us residency in Gdańsk.