Sachiko Katō | From Preconception Care to Slime Mold: On Satoko Ichihara's 'The Slime Mold Passed Over the Meat'
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Critic Sachiko Katō analyzes Satoko Ichihara's installation project, which uses slime mold and AI to challenge modern scientific management and human-centric perspectives.Summary
In this essay, curator Sachiko Katō discusses the installation exhibition "The Slime Mold Passed Over the Meat" by playwright and director Satoko Ichihara. Produced in collaboration with Hokkaido University's CoSTEP, the work uses AI to give a "voice" to slime mold, transforming biological movement into a chorus. Katō explores how Ichihara navigates the theme of "preconception care"—a concept rooted in modern management systems—to instead propose a "post-human" perspective that highlights the intelligence of non-human life and critiques human societal control.
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