agustine zegers
work        

Breathing is touching at the mucosal lining. Every act of smell is inmost, allowing of power’s touch. Not just at its apex but in the real intimacy of the unseen. It is fed and inhaled. It lives in alveoli, with our cells, connecting us inextricably. Power is a discreet and penetrating breath: constant, inseparable, and blended with our bodily functions.

“Plenitude. I am overwhelmed by meaning. Every time I breathe, the rhythm is natural, fluid. It fuses action. I became aware of my ‘cosmic lung.’ I enter into the total rhythm of the world. The world is my lung.” (Lygia Clark, The Abandonment of Modern Art)

(d)olor atemporalan olfactive collapse of ancient life and time materialized through portals of petroleum ontologies.

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corriente etérica
a somatic practice incorporating olfactory elements. currents pulsate through our bodies as channels of kinship with the submarine cables that host our telecommunications along the ocean floor—facilitating aqueous and plastified encounters along continental boundaries.

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turba tol hol-hol tol
in co-creation with the Ensayos collective: a submersion into and an offering to peatlands through the smellscapes of extractivism, sphagnum dives, beaver dams, and more. anchored in the bogs of karokynká, tierra del fuego; and bog hollow, new york
     
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counter-cartographies of smell
a collectively gathered institutional scent map and olfactory distillation produced for a routinely deodorized space with an underbelly of licorice, plywood, hydraulic oil, vegetality, and clorox

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perfume terrenal, lenteja áuricaa performance agglutinating the mystic exaltations of anchorites with the networked spirituality of global protein exports. conducted in collaboration with soil molecules, synthesized protein dust, and Mother Julian. 


ftalato-fitología
micro ecosistema plástico-planta, instalación olfativa de líquenes y sistema de alimentación de musgo. una inmersión en el rol de los plásticos en la ecología capitalocénica. producido con félix fuenzalida. 

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preparing to welcome the chthulucene
a speculative lifestyle spell designed to invite communion with agential materialities and life-forms, designed as an accompaniment to Donna Haraway’s Staying With the Trouble.

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filthglycerin
an instructional piece that questions the deployment of european hygiene practices and their relationship to coloniality and commerce. as executed with: larvae, dog spit, human spit, dirt, multispecies hair, and more, across different geographies.

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