Feeding Station

Group exhibition

Academia Minerva Graduation Show, Scheemda, The Netherlands
Materials: Ceramics, Soil, Bacteria

Nominated for Minerva Award for Fine Art

“Much like the world, my work is alive, bubbling, growing, and shape-shifting.”

Feeding Station reflects on intimate ecologies, care, and the consideration of other-than-human creators whilst providing food for thought and living bodies.

Inspired by the hydrofeminist idea of bodies being water-carrier bags, the installation is composed of 12 interactive sculptural elements that can circulate and hold water. The water circulation, an information channel for microscopic residue that tells about the history of its former vessel, becomes activated daily.

Feeding Station explores co-created installations in collaboration with non-humans. For example, yeast, lending its scent and building intricate structures; plants, slowly sculpting a raw clay vessel; and the flow of time that slowly melts and transforms the work.

““Feeding Station“ is an interactive installation composed of twelve elements, that became activated once a day during Minerva Art Academy’s graduation show.

The twelve parts are:
activation manual, care receiver, last bit of primordial slime, water bag, bubbling pot, well well, rainshower, instant things, fascia, our daily bread, lover’s spit, and timer.

Once a day at 5 PM a daily activation would occur, where the artist (activation manual) would share a story of becoming with the audience (care receivers). Together they would (time) travel through the installation listening, feeling, touching, tasting, engaging.

Martina’s work contributes to the current rethinking of the relationship between humans and other living beings. For her latest performative installation Feeding Station, she collaborated with non-humans. From bubbling single-cell organisms like yeast to infertile blends of minerals like clay.

In an outfit matching the clay colours, Martina activates her installation through multi-sensory storytelling. By digesting, touching, and absorbing information, the viewer becomes active in the visually pleasing installation consisting of several ceramic pieces. Over time, Feeding Station is evolving into a co-creation between water carriers like humans and clay.

Overall, Feeding Station proposes an alternative perspective on living beings. Uncovering the great connections between the universe, humans, and microbes turns the world into a huge interconnective tissue, like fascia.“ - Minerva Art Academy, 30-06-2022