FoAM: Ephemeral Garden

Urban murmur emerges from the sound of animate matter. Growing plants, crackling seabed, expanding rocks, crawling insects, and the invisible signals emanating from all-pervasive technological infrastructures. Human and non-human voices intermingle in an ambience that is thick and alive, filled with liminal whispers; traces of things already present, the imminent always of life. A haunted dialogue between different scales, textures, and sensory perceptions of nature in suspended time. Beings and landscapes, moments and aeons come and go, the noise rises and subsides. From the space between the cells to the space between the stars.

FoAM

FoAM is a transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday life. Maja Kuzmanović and Nik Gaffney (AU/BE/HR) are FoAM’s co-founders. They support and investigate ways to navigate uncertainty, cultivate hospitality, re-imagine technologies and weather transience. Maja is a transdisciplinary artist, experience designer, speaker and facilitator. Nik is a tangential generalist, media artist, designer and programmer. Guided by FoAM’s motto “grow your own worlds”, they work with futurecrafting as a way to re-enchant the present and create places for learning, conviviality and collaboration, where all species are welcome.