TUMBLE_needs
Let’s play syncretistic abundance
TUMBLE_needs (automated objects, animations,2025) drifts through techno-aesthetic ecologies, moving beyond Eurocentric notions of “landscape” and “nature.” In its world, humans, non-humans, and not-yet-humans traverse turbulent entanglements—sentient spaces where invasiveness and coexistence blur.
Four plant-organic “invasive” actors animate this speculative terrain: Khalili ginger spreading across Azorean forests, nitrogen-fixing bacteria reviving the dead soils of Central Germany, a fugitive canola roaming Basel’s wastelands, and self-replicating nano-organisms dreaming in synthetic laboratories. From their molecular perspective, proliferating through environments—abundant and uncontrolled—is not disruption, but activation. These entities tumble forward, defy containment and reorganize space.
Animated landscapes, tumbling entities and glitchy game scenes invite observers into atmospheres of interwoven coexistence. Such common grounds are not built on mutual understanding or consensus, but on an emphatic presence within volatility.
The video animations activate four sentient spaces; language shifters, rhizomatic proprietors, claiming abundance and sentient land machines.
knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler) have been experimenting with forms and medialities of knowledge, political representations and epistemic disobedience. In recent projects they are investigating and enacting inhuman geographies, libidinous and affective economies and postcolonial violence. In various formats (performative settings, critical fabulations, inventions, encounters) knowbotiq explore molecular, psychotrope and derivative aesthetics.
knowbotiq, former: knowbotic research/together with Alexander Tuchacek, has participated in Documenta fifteen, 49th Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavillon), Art Encounter Biennale Timisoara, Moscow Biennale, Seoul Biennale, Hongkong Shenzen Biennale and exhibited in New Museum New York, Kunstinstituut Melly, formerly known as Witte de With, MOCA Taipeh, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Skuc Gallery Ljubljana, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Hamburger Kunstverein, and others.
