With plastic resources nearing depletion since the early 36,000s p.o. (post-organic), the termites and their alliance with the Cockroach Kind are entering a new era. The Royal Museum of Termitology hosts an exhibit showcasing cutting-edge discoveries in drill-scanning, excroprinting, and Hu-man research, highlighting their remarkable journey to revive synthetic polymer production and reclaim their sustenance.

During their three-month residency in Glenkeen Garden, Filippa Pettersson and Kristin Reiman envisioned a post-human world where termites learn to eat and process plastics. As a non-renewable resource, the dwindling supply of plastics now poses the gravest concern to termite civilisation.

Filippa Pettersson lives in Frankfurt am Main. From 2009 to 2015, she was a student of fine arts at the Städelschule. Since then, she has had her own studio and works in the fields of installation, sculpture, sound, and performance. Her works are built on narrative structures, either by using already existing stories or by making them up on her own.

Kristin Reiman works with the notion of discomfort, malfunctions, and the skewing of perception using sound, speech, and writing. Their works often take the form of audio plays or mock-versions of larger musical forms, where one or multiple voices lament trivial problems and cyclical thoughts. Reiman graduated from Städelschule and the Estonian Academy of Arts, with additional studies at the Royal Academy of Arts Antwerp. Their latest works include choir pieces ‘How to unfocus completely’ (2022, B15, Linz) and ‘Artist’s Lament’ (2021, CEAAC, Strasbourg), as well as several music releases as Man Rei. As a resident of Noods Radio, Reiman runs a bi-monthly radio show called ‘An Awkward Guest’.

(As of 2024)