Camille Belmin, Metabolic Girl, Master Project Performance, 2026. Photo © Gerda Fischbach

Metabolic Girl

2026, Lecture performance and installation

How to grasp – and feel – the global earth system in a viscous, process-filled pot? Just like a Girl, a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) has a body and a smooth skin. But it is not subject to desire, rather disgust. May a Girl help you find admiration in this wet and sour body? May they help you see the biosphere in this gloopy mixture and find the connection between that molecule of carbon dioxide you just breathed out and capitalismfueled climatic changes?

In times of ecological collapse, Dr. Camille and her SCOBYs will use the Ecoslay methodology to investiguate how to reinvent environmental science communication through the seductive yet ambiguous figure of the Girl.

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