Parallel Tummy Clinic
In a future of aging populations and commonplace artificial wombs, this work invites viewers to step in as elderly citizens imagining a time when older people can have children—while questioning how loneliness might be exploited.
Through three videos—clinic guidance with AI bias check, a drama of three visitors, and a role-play of elderly parents—it explores reproduction, family, and social norms.
It asks: How could an artificial womb, free from political and economic influence, exist? Rather than dystopia, it envisions a parallel service that challenges age, health, and gender limits. With gratitude to writer, director, actor, and theatre company Zeitaku Binbō founder Yuri Yamada, who joined from the project’s conception to lead its theatrical approach.
We Travel Together
“We Travel Together" is a single-channel HD video work that continues artist Patricia Piccinini’s long-term exploration of the theme of care. The film tells the story of a young girl who forms a deep emotional bond with a peculiar hybrid creature. Together, they interact in natural settings such as forests, meadows, and sandy landscapes, expressing intimacy, trust, and mutual care—challenging viewers’ preconceived notions of “the other” and “heterogeneous life.”
Piccinini’s practice weaves together science, nature, and art, creating hybrid beings that feel at once familiar and fantastical. By blurring the boundaries between humans, animals, and technological constructs, her work provokes a reconsideration of what defines life. The piece invites audiences to approach different life forms with empathy and to reflect on how, in an era of rapid biotechnological and genetic engineering advancements, humans might reimagine coexistence with both nature and technology.
“We Travel Together” is not only a visual narrative but also an emotional experience—offering a tender vision of interspecies symbiosis and encouraging viewers to embrace life’s diversity and the possibilities of future evolution with openness.
Structures of Being
"Structures of Being" is an exploration and articulation of the myriad inspirations found within Antonio Gaudí's practice and Casa Batlló. Taking the form of a facade mapping, projections took place throughout 2024. The intention was to create an immersive experience that invites viewers to contemplate the profound beauty of natural forms and their ongoing influence on human creativity.
Drawing parallels between technological innovation and Gaudí's revolutionary architectural approach, new tools and technologies were used to respond to the natural forms, sources of inspiration, patterns and aesthetics in Casa Batlló's nature-inspired facade and internal structure (including a collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center). Utilizing a detailed 3D scan of the facade, the features and topology were brought to life, allowing both visible and hidden facets of the architecture to emerge. Sources of natural inspirations and phenomena important to Gaudí further influenced the visual evolution.
The visual piece was accompanied by an original score composed by Robert M. Thomas, featuring algorithmic compositions interpreted by local performers, including organist Juan de la Rubia and the Cosmos string quartet, recorded at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
