Terra Culture is an exploration of terra-biomes — symbiotic bodies of flora and microfauna, intimately connected by underground fungal networks.
Audiences will encounter an immersive space, where interaction with living sculptures invites sensual encounter with the artist’s terra-biomes to reveal our parallel and synergetic existences. The exhibition will also provoke a visceral self-identification, uncovering the human state as its own multi-species biome.
Over two years, this project has evolved through collaborations with ecologists and computing researchers in conjunction with sculptors and fabricators, ultimately leading Tainsh to create portals connecting us with more-than-human intelligence.
Bianca Tainsh is a multi-artform artist, based in Meanjin Brisbane and on Lake Weyba, Kabi Kabi Country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art and fluid forms of ecological activities Tainsh explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world and the search for spirituality in the epoch of digital culture. In Tainsh’s current work, Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being.
Tainsh’s work takes the form of video, digital and semi-traditional media, assemblages, installation and live art. Organic imagery, materials and processes find new meaning as they meet the aesthetics of digital production. Tainsh considers the more-than-human organisms she works with to be collaborators in her artmaking.
