Good convo with artist Jenna Sutela.
"I believe we should seek to connect with, or sense other intelligences around us – be it neural networks or, for example, ancient microbes – developing new sensibilities in the light of novel experience. In my performance Many-Headed Reading, I ingest a dose of Physarum polycephalum, the single-celled yet “many-headed” species of slime mould, also known as a natural computer, and imagine that its hive-like behaviour is “programming” my own. This decentralised autonomous organism was my first microbial collaborator."