Viridixima is a transdisciplinary studio whose practice emerges through co-becoming with more-than-human and human agencies within ecologies of care and radical hope.
Central to this practice is the inquiry into how coexistence can be practised within a civilisation that has built itself on separation.
The dominant modern system is built on a logic of division: human from nature, mind from body, self from the assemblage of organisms that constitutes it. This logic is historically and geographically specific.
Relational cosmologies that never severed these connections persist across the world.
The fiction of separation is, however, the one that currently organises global economies, institutions, and epistemologies. It structures the defining conditions of this moment: ecological collapse, social fracture, geopolitical instability, the accelerating displacement of meaning by technological and economic systems, and a loneliness that is ontological at its root. The loneliness of beings that have forgotten their own entanglement.
We are assemblages. Bacterial, fungal, vegetal, cultural, technological.
The boundaries of a body are porous, maintained through continuous exchange with the microbial communities that inhabit it, the air co-produced with plants, the ferments and substrates in which it participates continuously.
The studio grounds this understanding in daily practice.
Viridixima operates in a hybrid laboratory, a feral and intimate space in which to blend fabbing, hacking, ritual-making, storying, attuning, transmuting and biocrafting.
This home-laboratory is a space of daily symbiosis inhabited by more than three hundred plants, some rescued, some grown from the seeds and scraps of daily meals, alongside fermentation cultures, lichens, fungal colonies, emerging computational agencies, and the slow cultivation of biomaterials.
Among these more-than-human collaborators, with their own agencies and temporalities, creation is sympoietic and it takes form through sustained encounters, material relations and embodied knowledge across seasons.
This practice of co-becoming is the generative ground of the studio's projects.
Living artefacts constructed with hybrid materials and mutualistic microbial consortia.
Computational ecologies where code, data, and infrastructure metabolize the rhythms of living and geological systems, operating with their own agencies, moods, and resistances.
Speculative fabulations enacted through matter, in which more-than-human and human perspectives entangle, generating alternative cosmologies and stories of coexistence.
Participatory laboratories bringing people into sensory encounters with organisms, materials, sites, and living processes.
The studio's projects develop over years, grounding speculative imagination in sustained empirical research.
Its temporality honours the right to rest, follows the rhythms of the organisms and processes it tends, and the crip time of the bodyminds that compose it.
It values friction, care, contradiction, and questions over polished outcomes
Every project of the studio carries ethical questions inseparable from the act of creation itself: whether what is being brought into existence should exist at all, what consequences it carries for the ecologies it enters, what world it shapes in the process.
What we bring forth changes who we are, ontologically and materially, and forecloses other possibilities.
This awareness includes acknowledging what cannot be repaired.
Some losses are irreversible and some damage is permanent. No amount of care or attention can undo what extraction and separation have produced.
Within these limits, the practice of the studio unfolds, shaped by the alterity that surrounds it.