A performance workshop about bacteria – from the beginning of life to the body you live in

 
SCOBY & Son is an encounter between art and a living bacterial culture. A shared space where two worlds intertwine deeply in each other’s everyday life and spirit.
 
SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) is the culture used to brew kombucha. A living organism that responds to its surroundings – including you.
 
For artist Thomas Seest, the SCOBY has become a close companion. Together they form a symbiosis, influencing and nourishing one another
 
In the workshop, you are invited into this symbiosis. Together, we create a new, shared culture – quite literally – and the boundary between us and the living world around us begins to dissolve.
 
SCOBY & Son moves between the personal and the universal, telling a story about life and death, grief and life crises – but also about hope, community, and new ways of being together in a world where all life is interconnected.
 
Along the way, nature philosopher Morten Grønborg opens up a scientific perspective, guiding us on a journey through 4 billion years – from the origin of life to the bacteria that still live in and around us today.
 

ABOUT THOMAS SEEST           

Thomas Seest is a visual artist whose work explores ecology and regenerative ideas.

He has been involved in numerous landscape and rewilding projects and is currently engaged in a large-scale art and community project in Køge Nord.