PlusX with Cammack Lindsey & Bacterial Consciousness hosted by Donna Alan Schons 18.04.2020

Bacterial Consciousness
A collaborative musical process imagining the growth of human /cyanobacteria
symbiosis.


Not only are bacteria our ancestors, but also, if I am correct, as the
evolutionary antecedent of the nervous system, they invented consciousness. The
effects we recognize as sensitivity too light, sense of touch, hearing, smell
and indeed our senses in general evolved from a property properly called
“bacterial consciousness.
-Lynn Margulis


dramaturgy. Dusk settles upon the marsh as the symbionts
(homosapien/synechococcus) slip into the water. Their photosynthesizing takes a
rest in nightfall as nitrogen fixation begins, yielding the nitrate and ammonia
they’ll need for their growth. dawn comes to break and daylight awakes, as their
hauntings begin & their prolific futures they’ll reclaim.


Direction & concept by Cammack Lindsey, from the ‘Research Centre on Color
Space &...

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