LabLogBook
Inspired in those old Logbooks written by travelers exploring the world, I want to document my experience at the BioLab as a human exploring these unknown beings that I had contact with before but never really paid attention to.
Could I do it without a colonizing gaze?
I don't want to manipulate them but to let them show me the way to discover and understand their own knowledge.
Phase 1: First thoughts
My work at the Lab started on reading the available writings there. A fortunate encounter led me to start reading "Tactical Biopolitcs" that got to translate my thoughts to words. In reference to Foucault's statement:
"Resistance comes first, and resistance remains superior to the forces of the process; power relations are obliged to change with the resistance"
My very first experiment was on trying to make the slime mold follow the route I built for it with oats. Nonetheless its resistance showed me the unpredictable aspect of nature. It made me think about our ambitious intentions to manipulate others lives for our own purposes and how it is the first possibility that comes to mind when we talk about experiments.
But what can slime mold teach me? Which signs does it give to me about what it wants?