Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

Soil Stations
Event Hours: 10/09/2025 (10:00)
Location: Katedrala - Kino Šiška
Audrey Rangel Aguirre

In the context of emerging innovations trying to materialize within obsolete schemes (some institutional, some cultural), the artist is revealed as the enabler of new spaces for production. Soil Stations are links of connection with the Earth, plugs for energetic transference between soil matter and body matter, and through connection, energetical and conceptual dialogues emerge as thinking systems that belong to primal states of consciousness. Soil Stations are units of soil carved from the inside of the Earth, using soil as an element to sculpt shapes and volumes made by hand. By sculpting the volumes, a connection between the body’s dimension and natural soil occurs, and the results are soil extensions that fit the body. The stations are sculpted on the forest surface to produce exchange, by touch, triggering a system of energy between the Earth, body, forest, and the planetary energetical system connecting the atmosphere with outer space. Insights on bioenergy related to environmental engineering have informed the project, which delves into the study of properties of microorganisms on soil and biomass that are capable of producing bioelectricity by means of chemical exchange, and such process can be amplified by the implementation of the union of technological systems like the microbial fuel cell system with the human body. The result is the direct use of the body as a connector element per se, using the principles of a microbial fuel cell system of soil, but with a novel component: the body and cosmic rays. Soil Stations is one of the outcomes of the collaboration with engineer Ioannis Ieropoulos. This collaboration advances the creation of energy production systems and sustainable art making, while transcending spiritually, the ecological and global crisis.

Audrey Rangel Aguirre

 

Audrey Rangel Aguirre is an interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in England, researching at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic intuition to create new systems that belong to the future of human civilisation. Currently developing the ongoing research project Terras Lux, focusing on the relation between energy on microbial micro ecosystems on soil and the energy on the human body. In her practice, she uses creative intuition as a tool to create speculative scenarios that may be a possibility for our nearest future in our society and research through the lenses of art and philosophy, diverse fields of science. Using artistic intuition, reciprocity and caring for others as a way to weaving politics, poetics, and consequences through contemporary art practices. The current convergence of art and science may be the key to unlocking new possibilities and the development of human consciousness towards the next phase of civilisation. In her research, she allows herself to free artistic intuition to power and enhance scientific research with the aim of the creation of new systems that belong to the future of human civilisation, in which, with the collaboration of other beings like microbes and ecosystems, a new way of living and collaborating between all beings on Earth can be achieved, through reciprocity.


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