Bad Methodologies: Peculiar Frogs
Polygala Biennale. Natural History Museo, Helsinki, Finland.
16.10.2024–5.1.2025
Pumpkin toadlets are frogs that can be seen as being bad at everything that being a frog requires: they can’t jump, they can’t land, and they don’t hear each other’s mating calls. When they jump, they lose their sense of balance and do not know how to land. Bad Methodologies: Peculiar Frogs we have been drawn to embodied experiences but also experiments that demand physical commitments. Through this we question the hierarchical conception of some methodologies being better than others. The hypothesis was that it is not possible to jump without consciously controlling the leap. However, it turned out that consciousness had very little to do with the moment of jumping. The survival instinct controls us, instead of us controlling it.
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