Estado vegetal
Event
“Estado vegetal” (Vegetable state) is a polyphonic, branched, exuberant, repetitive, divisible and sessile monologue. The main character is a woman, who is not an individual but a crowd, a swarm. This is no animal work it is vegetal work. Based on the revolutionary thinking of philosophers like Michael Marder and neurobiologists like Stefano Mancuso, the performance seeks to explore new concepts such as plant intelligence, vegetative soul or plant communication and their influence on creative processes. If we acknowledge that plants have other ways of thinking, feeling, communicating, another form of consciousness and another notion of time, perhaps we can assess our own notions of what it means to think, feel, be, communicate, transform, be conscious. “Estado vegetal” revolves around an impossible dialogue between human beings and plants. A failed dialogue with nature, which is perhaps our most innate monologue.
