Activity Looking for Hope

Looking for Hope

Installation, performance

Looking for Hope is a performance art installation which will be meticulously recreated throughout the Montreal edition of Nuit Blanche.

It is a scientific experiment consisting in the fermentation of different yeast strains inside transparent plastic vials to study how they grow by measuring levels of sugar loss and CO₂ generation.

The experiment will be over when either the organism will have self-destructed or will have become a new specimen as a result of having saturated its environment. Each “failed” experiment will be numbered and presented accompanied by its grow chart on a display stand.

The idea is to repeat the experiment until one of the specimens manages not to destroy its environment and shows long-term development. Here, we are “looking for hope” as the title suggests.

Obviously, each yeast strain will not follow the same growing pattern. A mode of development which, unfortunately, echoes our own.

Curator : Art Souterrain