MICROBIAL GESTURES - 1000 Scores/Goethe-Institut Toronto (2021)

Microbial Gestures was co-commissioned and curated by Jutta Brendemuhl, Goethe-Institut Toronto, with the1000 Scores artistic team. 1000 Scores. Pieces for Here, Now & Later is an online performance space that presents new scores from various artists on the 1000 scores website. Each score is an instructional art piece for one person, commissioned by the project, in collaboration with a partner institutions and the artistic team. The project’s artistic team is Helgard Haug, David Helbich & Cornelius Puschke.

Microbial Gestures asks us to consider our hands. The pandemic has made us aware that, more than ever, all of us are touched by microbes.
Microbes are the oldest forms of life on earth. They are a fundamental part of the world we live in, and they terrify us: an invisible inhabitant with the possibility of contaminating our cellular lives. Most microbes are harmless, coexisting on us, around us, and within us – making up our personal microbiome. They are smaller than a human cell, and we can only see them through the microscope, and on our skin, they form an invisible ecosystem working to keep it, and us, healthy.

Experience Microbial Gestures on 1000 Scores, Pieces for Here, Now & Later here