Kyong park

Pinar Yoldas was born in 1979 in Denizli, Turkey, and lives and works in California. An architect, artist and professor, she defines herself as an infradisciplinary designer/artist/researcher. Her work develops in the field of biological sciences and digital technologies through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing, with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, anthropocene and feminist technoscience. With An Ecosystem of Excess, Turkish artist Pinar Yoldas creates a post-human ecosystem made up of speculative organisms and their imaginary environment. The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", a vortex of rubbish made up of several million tonnes of plastic waste in the North Pacific and equivalent in size to central Europe, is the terrain the artist is examining and the birthplace of species in excess.

According to the "primordial soup" theory, life on earth appeared four billion years ago in the oceans, when inorganic matter was transformed into organic molecules. Today, the oceans have become a soup of p

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