Pickles in translation: Autopoiesis and vibration

From Lijiang Studio INDEX, a series of events in NYC, September 2015

earthenware replicas of Yunnan Style Pickle Jars with vegetables, bacteria, fungi and text

Much of the research katalog (duskin drum and Sarah Lewison) did at Lijiang Studio involved observation, translation or appropriation of traditional subsistence technologies.

Salt fermentation is the dirty-delicious- point in the spectrum of fungal-human commensality.


Crystal Pascuci on cello
The colonies that characterize fermentation begin with logarithmic expansion, leading to a plateau and decline.


Autopoiesis and vibration. 
Bacterial symphonies.







Perhaps tiny, sovereign civilizations? 
Autonomous zones? 

Ferment Recipe from Zhou Qiao's dad