Table at Terrapolis

An Installation by Finbar Prior in collaboration with Beth Robertson as part of the Earth Day events across UAL organised by the Climate Emergency Network.

Inspired by Donna Haraway, our table is a sound installation exploring hybrid beings and engaging with collective listening as a form of activism. To sit down at a table for dinner is an act of symbiosis. Whether you’re engaging with other humans or eating alone with the trillions of microbiomes that digest your food. Table at Terrapolis is a celebration of the hybridity of human beings, we could not exist without the more-than-human world that generously provides for us. So come sit at our table! Listen deeply to the living beings within us and the vibrant materials that innervate our skin.

The table is made up of live moss and coir panels that have been amplified by hydrophones and stethoscopes that have been adapted with microphones.