Penelope Cain ○ STARTS Residency Repairing with Lichen ○ In4Art

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In this video, S+T+ARTS resident artist Penelope Cain, who conducted her residency at Witteveen+Bos and In4Art in The Netherlands, explains how the research and experiment project Repairing with Lichen evolved. • The work of Penelope Cain draws on lichen as an entry point to consider interspecies collaboration for shared resources, and a role-model and callout for collaborative living between nature + humans in cities. Lichen is a trade-based symbiosis between co-evolved fungi and algae. Rootless, neither plant nor animal, lichen absorbs CO2 and is an important part of intersecting ecosystems. The project considers from a human perspective the wonders and learning potentials around this non-human relationship, and how to invite lichen back into cities. This work is a visual storytelling, of science, wonder and hope through the micro world of lichen. • The use case setting for her research was the city of The Hague and she collaborated with and shared insights on how we might reimagine city nature with the Environmental Vision 2050. • Next to that, she collaborated with HLRS - High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and MSL (Media Solution Centre) in Stuttgart and presented her work-in-progress at YES!Delft. • The final artistic outcome is called One and the Care of Many and is exhibited at MAXXI in Rome as part of the tryptic exhibition :REWILD https://www.maxxi.art/en/events/repai... • Repairing the Present received funding from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement LC01641664. • PENELOPE CAIN https://penelopecain.com/nature-and-c... • IN4ART https://www.in4art.eu/project/repairi... • WITTEVEEN +BOS https://www.witteveenbos.com/ • MAXXI https://www.maxxi.art/en/ • HLRS / hlrs---high-performance-computing-center-s... • MUNICIPALITY OF THE HAGUE https://www.denhaag.nl/en.htm

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