Biography

Fuzzy Earth is a research-based creative practice by Tekla Gedeon and Sebastian Gschanes, operating at the intersection of architecture, design, art, agriculture, and technology. Their work builds speculative worlds and explores multispecies entanglements in the era of climate crises, fostering resilient futures. Through ecological storytelling, spatial interventions, and material experiments, they challenge the roles of industrial landscapes, botanical institutions, and ecological environments. Their projects infiltrate unexpected sites, from market halls to gardens, engaging with speculative design to reimagine human-nonhuman relationships.

Artistic project

Feeding (on) Earth’s Crust is an interactive installation by Fuzzy Earth, weaving soil, food, and storytelling into an ecological meditation on decay and renewal. In an era where industrial agriculture fractures nutrient cycles and urbanisation severs the bond between consumption and the land, this work invites participants to reconsider their entanglement with the earth. Phosphorus, an irreplaceable element, is extracted, scattered, and lost—its absence revealing the fragility of modern agriculture, its excess suffocating aquatic life.

At the heart of the installation, a communal dining space becomes a living interface between human and soil metabolism. Fermentation and sourdough baking echo the microbial life animating fertile ground, while storytelling sessions unearth forgotten narratives of cultivation, decomposition, and return. Workshops deepen this engagement—soil analysis revealing invisible ecologies, hands-on practices fostering an intimacy with earth’s regenerative matter.

Blurring boundaries between the organic and the crafted, the installation’s tables hold soil, plants, and fermentation jars—vessels of transformation. Through touch, taste, and shared experience, Feeding (on) Earth’s Crust offers a quiet insistence: soil is not inert, but a living, breathing commons—one that calls for care, reciprocity, and reimagining.

Format: installation

Size of audience: 15 people maximum

Specific location: will be determined based on weather conditions and local opportunities, ensuring adaptability to the surrounding ecological and spatial context

Timing / duration: Three-hour workshops conducted during the day, adaptable to site-specific conditions and participant engagement