Plastisapiens

eco-fiction
plastics
imagination

Plastisapiens imagines a speculative future where humans, environment, and plastic merge into one hybrid being. Guided by scientific research and ecological imagination, the experience leads us from primordial organisms toward a plastified self whose DNA is both organic and synthetic. In this slow, sensorial journey, bodies morph and breathe plastic, erasing the boundary between the natural and the artificial. Echoing Donna Haraway’s call to “stay with the trouble,” the work does not seek purity or return, but invites us to linger in our entanglement with plastic as part of our own evolution — unsettling, intimate, and strangely hopeful.

Author: Miri Chekhanovich & Edith Jorisch

Countries: Canada

Production year: 2023

Runtime: 15 min

Language: English

Control complexity: Simple Interactions

Motion sickness level: Low

Premiere status: No Premiere

Program section: VR Exhibition: More-than-Human Perspectives

Location: Area C (Ground Floor)