Per Huttner will be in Mexico in winter 2024-25. He will be working with two projects: Ghetto Gucci II and Microbes in the Desert of the Real.  The team will spend most of the time in Mexico City, but will also make excursions to the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca. Work will focus on developing work for the upcoming presentations in Sweden and in France.

The Microbes in the Desert of the Real phrase their research question like this:

• Microbes offer an interesting way into complexity. Their small size and the fact that they are everywhere connects them to other complex systems and their influence cannot be understated. Without microbes there would be no life on this planet, and small changes can have profound consequences for other interconnected complex systems. The world is full of unknown unknowns and to help us sort all of this out and extend our knowledge increasingly complex computer programs are being used.  But there is a problem with this. As computer models or simulations become increasingly complex they also become harder to understand. This is referred to as Bonini’s paradox.

The are preparing a large presentation at the amazing Hallwylska museet in central Stockholm.

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The Ghetto Gucci II team formulate their research in the following way:

• For humanity, death constitutes the ultimate expression of the unknown. No human knows, and no one can know what happens when we die. In this project, a group of Swedish and Haitian artists together focus on how death is seen in Haiti. In the voodoo cosmology, death is viewed in a completely different way, than in our Western ontology. The Haitians believe that everything in the world is spirited. They also believe that death is not the end, but a transformation into another dimension. In the project, we allow the audience to reflect on death, but also to face death seen through an unknown Haitian perspective.

New performances will be presented at Fronda in Etla, Casa Bestia in Oaxaca City and at Humboltd123 in Mexico City’s Down town.

More info about the public events will follow soon.