“My gut likes Taylor Swift more than I do. And it likes her on a microbial level. I’ve come to terms with that. As long as we can subsist in relative peace, I can go along with the quirks that come with the translation of these microbial processes into conscious expression. Its biofilm bonds are stronger than my will, but also, my will might not be much more than an echo-chamber for its conflicting “bioexpressions”. […]
With all the toxins and micro-plastics, my body is already able to mirror the corporate environments through which it moves. Constructing small shopping malls, echoing their ambient sounds, music, and lining up the intestinal walls with batches of intricately packaged goods. These xenobiotic environments fill it with tremors, forming zones of discomfort and pain from across which a semblance of a voice can be heard: “You ok?” Sweet old Taylor, I still often wonder what sort of groupie love keeps on summoning you here. If my gut likes you more than I do, if the biota holds a peculiar fixation on you, could it be that there is also something metabolic or even microbial about pop that supports and encourages all of this? It does not take much more than altered membrane permeability for the biotic environments to change in architecture and the ambient mall sounds to change in tune. So could it be that our meeting here is more than a trick of the subconscious?”
Published within the framework of Plaza Protocol, an ongoing digital exhibition project initiated by Tjaša Pogačar in collaboration with Šum Journal and Projekt Atol: https://www.plazaprotocol.si
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