The Learned Pig

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Tag: bacteria

  • Editorial: Rot

    Editorial: Rot

    Editor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.

  • Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts

    Artist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY – symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.

  • (on)zichtbaar

    (on)zichtbaar

    “If we open our eyes and look further, we realize a mistake has been made, and the wrong story has been told.” Words: Marloe Mens. Photography: Kiki Muyres.

  • Open Call: Rot

    Open Call: Rot

      *** Rot is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. ***     The world is full of both collaborations and contaminations. The evolutionary theory of symbiogenesis tells us that we are born of indigestion; some 2 billion years ago, one bacterial cell…

  • No one dives in me

    No one dives in me

      Seven things I’ve learned from 20 years as a community swimming pool. As told to Kit Caless.     When I’m cold I’m lonely. When I’m cold, the black brick sat on my bottom has no person to pick it up. They put a sign outside that says, “The pool is currently at 26…

  • The Art of Fermentation

    The Art of Fermentation

    Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around The World, “the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published”. Released in 2012 with a foreword by Michael Pollan, it has received rapturous praise in both the food world and in environmentalist…