Headmachine

SITE-SPECIFIC INTERVENTION  
2019 Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin

Material: wearable sculptures, MUGSHOES, honeycombs, petroleum jelly, plant installation

© Susi Hinz. Photo: Jonny Brooking & Liz Stumpf



Headmachine is a site-specific intervention within the Spacefarming greenhouse in Berlin-Dahlem — an environment defined by technical optimisation and engineered fertility. Within this highly controlled setting, abstract, vividly coloured wearable sculptures appear, anonymising and extending the body while unsettling its boundaries. Embedded within the installation of plants and wearables, the performance frames the body as a permeable interface — a membrane negotiating interior and exterior, projection and dissolution. Set against the standardised cultivation systems developed for extraterrestrial agriculture — in Dahlem focused on tomatoes — Headmachine introduces a zone of indeterminacy within an otherwise regulated environment.