Resilience Overflow
Lara Tabet
Beirut
Resilience Overflow explores the invisible boundaries between science and fiction, personal life and collective issues.
This multidimensional project was born from a collaboration between the artist and the Laboratory of Environmental Molecular Microbiology at the National Center for Biotechnology in Madrid. It is based on the creation of a bacterial strain, taken from the artist's intestine and then genetically modified to integrate and produce the human neuropeptide Y — a molecule associated with resilience.
Having become a tiny pharmaceutical factory, this bacterium raises a hypothesis: what would happen if it were released into Beirut's water network?
Between scientific provocation and political reflection, the project questions resilience as a pretext, the role of the individual in the face of the absence of the state, and the unprecedented alliances that could arise between the human world and the microbiological world.
3 October - 2pm to 6pm /
4 to 19 October - 10am to 6pm
On loop
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Childrens and Students: 10 DT
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Main Artist: Lara TabetCredits and cast
A collaboration with the Victor de Lorenzo Laboratory @ the National Center of Biotechnology, Madrid
Music: Yara Asmar
Sound: Sandra Tabet
Video Editing: Chaghig Arzoumanian
with the support of Temporary Art Platform and Biofaction
With support from the Centre for Human Rights and the Arts – Fisher Centre, Bard College
Part of Evidence: an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard
