DIGITAL CAMPAIGN // 2020 

In our collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries’ Back to Earth initiative and the General Ecology project, Metabolic Selves call for a New Metabolic Order, a platform for understanding the shifting nature of our metabolic selves. To ingest in a post-industrial world is an inadvertent act, no longer a process of definitive input for desired output. Rather, ingestion in the Anthropocene reverses this lens, subjugating bodies to the same chemical influx as we have exerted on our environment.

When we ingest matter into our bodies, we also ingest a chain of political signifiers. In order to reach a post-industrial understanding, there needs to be a shift away from considering pollution and pollutants as a process of cause and effect, and rather an acknowledgment of the joint history, and overlapping definitions of the human and the more-than human.