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scum circle - performance and video & sound installation by Layton Lachman (@lachmoninof), laureate of Hošek Contemporary Prize 2023. Thursday & Friday August 24 & 25, 2023 Created in consortium with: Camila Malenchini (@camilamalenchini), Caroline Neill Alexander (@cart_snax), Dani Paiva de Miranda (@dpmiranda_2032), Ethan Allison Folk (@ethfol), Layton Lachman, Nagi Gianni (@nagigianninnaigigan), Samuel Hertz (@pallaspalace) & wro wrzesińska (@wro_xyz). Pictures by Mari Vass (@mari.vass.photography.berlin). Visit our website www.hosekcontemporary.com for more pictures. scum circle: a roiling hole of sensualities, transports us into skin-2-skin scenes of subsumptive cellular reproduction. One way or another, this archaic fundament will turn sexy. A complex, wild, and unexpected dance is conjured in the friction between wriggling digital and human bodies, inviting contemplation on the interplay between individuality and the materiality of our interconnectedness. scum circle attempts to disrupt notions of hierarchies of intelligences, anthropocentrism, patriarchal domination and a static individualised sexual and reproductive identity. It offers an invitation into the ways in which our supposed individualised livelihoods are already—and have been in the evolutionary epochs of the past—intertwined and symbiotic. Lynn Margulis says: “Symbiotic interaction is the stuff of life on a crowded planet. Our symbiogenetic composite core is far older than the recent innovation we call the individual human. Our strong sense of difference from any other life-form, our sense of species superiority, is a delusion of grandeur.” scum circle asks: if we consider all systems of reproduction as forms of intelligence, what sort of new worlds are created when parasitic, symbiotic, self-replicating or self-devouring systems are as visible as embryonic heterosexual reproduction? This question offers a speculative ecofeminist look at an inter-species celebration, a queer riot: a primordial, biological ooze which merges with everything it touches. #laytonlachman #hosekcontemporary