La muerte de las cosas - Natalia Cossio Sánchez
Natalia Cossio Sánchez ( Colombia )
At ZK/U, Natalia will develop La muerte de las cosas, an artistic research project that questions how we understand decay, proposing it not as an ending but as the condition that makes new beginnings possible. Working with mycelium and understanding it as a co-designer and central agent in the creative process, they will develop biomaterials using locally sourced discarded materials, including books, textiles, and cigarette butts.
Inspired by the decentralized networks of mycelium, it will also incorporate interactive digital media (p5.js) to create experiences that connect Colombia and ZK/U in Berlin, inviting participants to reconsider the boundaries and categories through which life is understood. Drawing on the ecological agency of fungi as decomposers and collaborators, the project explores new ways of inhabiting the world through interdependence, care, and co-creation with more-than-human life.
The residency will become a site for investigating how decomposition, collective memory, and urban material flows can generate alternative narratives and ontologies.
