Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries

2004/06

Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries is a series of works comprised of what Kac calls biotopes, i.e., living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions, including temperature, relative humidity, airflow, and light levels in the exhibition space. Each of Kac's biotopes is literally a self-sustaining ecology comprised of thousands of very small living beings in a medium of earth, water, and other materials. Kac orchestrates the metabolism of this diverse microbial life in order to produce the constantly evolving living works.

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