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YAMSUSHIPICKLE
Jenna Sutela

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Jenna Sutela

YAMSUSHIPICKLE
Jenna Sutela
Remember the transience of life and the vanity of earthly pursuits. Cook for the community. Thank you, Mikko Gaestel, for the invaluable filmmaking support; Ian Hands-Portman, for microscopy; and Filip Setmanuk and Vanda Skácalová, for 3D animation. Throat singing by Arjopa, as recorded in Berlin by Ville Haimala.
Created2021
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In her audiovisual pieces, sculptures, and performances, Jenna Sutela (b. 1983) seeks to override aspects of culture based on a survival-of-the-fittest narrative in favor of symbiotic relationships among different life forms, both organic and synthetic. Sutela’s work has featured, as co-creators, the single-celled yet “many-headed” species of slime mold Physarum polycephalum; a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast in a kombucha tea ferment; and the bacterium Bacillus subtilis nattō. The artist has also worked with artificial neural networks. Recent exhibitions include the 13th Shanghai Biennale: Bodies of Water; the Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and the Port; NO NO NSE NSE, a solo show at the Kunsthall Trondheim that traveled in modified form to the Oslo Kunstforening; and Mud Muses: A Rant About Technology, at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, which included a co-commission with Serpentine Galleries. Sutela has been a Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) since 2019. She lives and works in Berlin and Finland.