Screening of the film "Holobiont Society" by Swiss artist Dominique Koch.

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LISA Auditorium. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

Next Thursday, April 10th, the film Holobiont Society by Swiss artist Dominique Koch will be shown at the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology - LISA/USP. The activity will take place from 8 pm onwards.
As part of a visual exhibition that has been touring several countries, Holobiont Society delves into a complex set of issues related to hierarchies, power structures and concepts of coexistence, defined by the term holobiont.
Created by biologist Lynn Margulis, co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis, the concept refers to an integrated ecological and evolutionary unit formed by a host organism and all the microorganisms that live in association with it.
In the film, the holobiont is visualized through scientific images of corals, bacteria and other symbiotic organisms, which emerge on the screen along with an elaborate sound design, which acts in synergy with excerpts from interviews with biologist, feminist and writer Donna Haraway, as well as philosopher and sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato and molecular biologist Scott Gilbert.
The exhibition is an outreach activity of the Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity Collective - CHAMA and the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology - LISA/USP and is part of the discipline Anthropology of Microorganisms, which has been taught within the activities of CHAMA, which is a study group of the Department of Anthropology at USP.