2023
Human is a
Cosmic Plant

frappant.ev
Hamburg

2023
A humanização da
autonomia de uma máquina
Text by Sara Magno

2022
Postscript
Writing after recording

Atelier Concorde
Lisbon

2022
myoo-choo-uh-liz-uhm
KUBAPARIS
Pub. Oct–3

2022
myoo-choo-uh-liz-uhm
Curated by Dose

Fundão

2021
Trauma Response

Duplex AIR

Lisbon

2021
RRRIG
no follower
no post

2021
Plant Data, Beyond
our Understanding of
Plant Communication

Pub. Jul–22

2021
Plant Data

Acoustic Emissions
Museu História Natural
MHNC–UP
Porto

2021
Plant Spirit
Museu História Natural
MHNC–UP
Porto

2020–21
Residency
Plant Intelligence

Dept. of Biology
FC–UP

2020
AE Interpretation Data

of Plant Ecology
Ghent

2020
Residency
Mobility Research

Studio programme
Turin

2019
Res Publica
Open-source everything
Hacked webcam

2019

Y.A. + Xavier Paes
Making noise

Plant Spirit, 2023
Sound and video installation, loop
Fraxinus excelsior trees, fans, laptop,
sound board, speakers

On a laptop and speakers plays three video
recordings of talks on plant spirit communication.
Featuring community ritual leader Miguel Rivera,
researcher and evolutionary ecologist Monica
Gagliano, herbalist Mark Jensen and sculptor
and indigenous food activist Roxanne Swentzell.

Collaboration with Jackson Gore.

Exhibited at the group show: 

critically questions the positioning of
humanity in the cosmos and on the other
hand, celebrates its complex beauty

with Lukas Kindermann and Paula König
curated by Judith Hofer

Hamburg

Exhibition Text

Postscript, 2022
Multi-channel sound and video, 9 min loop
Office furniture, computers, server, monitors
speakers, cables, wifi routers, wallpaper

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“data” “as" “sound”
“binary" “code” “as” “sheet" “music"
“the" “cloud” “is” ”an” ”apparition”
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Writing after recording
Binary code and the cloud

Lisbon

myoo-choo-uh-liz-uhm, 2022
Two-channel sound system 11 min loop
Deconstructed amplifiers, dirt, glass
pigment, clay, speakers, cables

Duo exhibition with Inês Teles

Fundão

Curated by Dose
KUBAPARIS

The Basket, 2021
Sound and video installation, 6 min loop
hericium erinaceus, plastic, earth, metal
projector, speaker, amplifier, cables

Trauma Response

Lisbon

Referring to telepathy, remote viewing
and extra sensory intelligence, The Basket
proposes that in the same way we only
understand bits and pieces of non-human
consciousness and communication, we are
only just beginning to grasp the operating
principles of our own.

Group exhibition with Catarina Simão,
Filipe Cortez Juliana Matsumura, Maria
Máximo, Marie Antoinette Theodore
Ereira-Guyer, Yota Ayaan