Season 4, Episode 2 — Chromatic Wednesdays
Bioglitch (Giorgio Alloatti, Alexandra Maciá, Xristina Sarli)
Swantje Lichtenstein
Augustė Vickunaitė
Wednesday, 25.02.2026 — 19:00
@TOP e.V.
Industriestraße 38, 12099 Berlin
Free entry
Theme: Unlearning and Reimagining
in collaboration with TOP e.V.
Program
19:00 — Doors open
19:30 — Bioglitch: Plastivorous Futures
20:30 — Swantje Lichtenstein: sound of undead words + regenerative poems. rules rhymes rhythm
21:30 — Augustė Vickunaitė: Live performance
About the Evening
In our second event under the theme Unlearning and Reimagining, we descend into the basement of TOP Lab — Berlin’s first DIY BioLab and a transdisciplinary community space — to encounter three different approaches to sound and image generation.
The idea of decomposition and material decay, as well as the deconstruction of language as a way to gain new perspectives on knowledge, draws a direct line to the core of unlearning. This setting opens space for the artists to reinterpret their materials: through literal feedback loops between organism, signal, and found matter, or by transforming the sound of words through feminist, non-canonical knowledge practices — a performative attempt to cast a kind of magical spell.
Bioglitch — Plastivorous Futures
Bioglitch is an ongoing series of experiments by Giorgio Alloatti, Alexandra Maciá, and Xristina Sarli, where sound, data, mycelium, and obsolete media collapse into one more-than-human circuit.
In Plastivorous Futures, the plastic-eating fungus Pestalotiopsis microspora meets the synthetic afterlife of ancient dead trees in polyurethane tapes, fossil-fuel plastics, and magnetic relics of human memory — and decomposes them into unstable, noisy scores that rehearse life after the age of plastic.
Bioglitch sonified the genome of Pestalotiopsis microspora (a fungus that can feed on polyurethane), recorded that sound onto polyurethane-based reel-to-reel tape, and then returned the tape itself to the fungus as food. The work stages a literal feedback loop between organism, signal, and matter. In performance, lab instruments, oscilloscopes, XR perspectives, humans, and fungi are wired into an unstable system where signals de-compose and co-compose through fungal decay.
The result is a shifting landscape that treats decay as resistance: fungi metabolizing both the materials and metaphors of oppressive systems — a multispecies resistance against speciesism and extractivism, and a slow unlearning of architectures of harm.
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