Sunlight, Soil & Shit

Sunlight, Soil & Shit installation [3SCD]
Ionat Zurr, Oron Catts in collaboration with Steve Berrick

Witness a technological food cycle firsthand over the course of a 3-week experiment, which will see sunshine, soil and shit removed, in favour of artificial light, substrates, and fertilizers. 3SCD tackles the issues surrounding the fantasy of technological-based foods in a provoking art meets science project about the three elements in our utopian future that farming is trying to live without.

Created by SymbioticA’s co-founders Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts in collaboration with artist and creative coder Steve Berrick, 3SDC brings the farm to the lab and the lab to the farm and considers whether the means of production will grow ever distant from Nature. Will this metabolic rift be the precursor to open and sustainable food systems? And how does the public consider their own relationship to food and technology?

SymbioticA are no strangers to food technology. In 2000, the team were internationally recognised as the first to grow meat in a lab, and three years later, were also the first to consume in vitro meat. Their work has been exhibited all over the world in leading cultural institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, National Art Museum of China, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

In times of ecological crisis, there is a vital need for seriously playful artistic interventions into the fantasies of separating humans from Nature. The installation is a free event and audiences are encouraged to return to see the progress of the experiment and/or to monitor online.

The project has been funded by the Department of Local Government Sport & Cultural Industries (WA), The Seed Box (Linköping University Sweden) and assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Follow the live feed of surveillance camera and sensor data on the Project website.
Opening: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Sat 5 Feb
10 – 4pm Sun 6 Feb
Then 7-26 Feb (10am to 4pm, Tue to Sat)