NeoMeta*
NeoMeta*
Julia Shu
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine
NeoKin · September 2024 · Living & growing installation
Once a living tree, a stump is still spreading its roots — hoping for revival and offering a fragmented home to living moss and the remnants of human activity. NeoKin reimagines a disrupted habitat through a speculative ecosystem of found wood, discarded electronics and growing plants.
Date — September 2024
Medium — Living and growing installation
Materials — Tree stump, found electronic waste, planted moss and ferns
Can we hear those whose voices are fading into silence amid ecological crisis and human aggression? NeoKin reimagines a fragmented ecosystem within a cut tree: once a thriving habitat, now disrupted by human activity.
A stump offers a fragmented home to living moss and non-living fossils of human activity. It evokes lost habitats and disrupted ecosystems, symbolising life's persistence despite destruction. Interwoven with electronic waste and growing plants, the tree becomes a speculative ecosystem in which nature and culture are inseparable.
NeoKin challenges anthropocentric perspectives and redefines home as a shared, evolving space where technology, nature — including humans — and land intersect in an ongoing negotiation of survival, adaptation and resilience. It asks how we might live within hybrid yet self-regulating ecosystems.