Outsider within: a conversation
by Lucie Draai and Ketan (2020)
Test_lab: Of Microbes and Matter
at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam (NL)

The publication contains an intimate conversation between two friends. Artist Lucie Draai and her friend Ketan: a single celled organism named slime mold Physarum polycephalum. They lived together with Lucie’s partner and their two cats for the duration of eights months between December 2018 and Augustus 2019 in Rotterdam (NL). Their conversation touches upon the question of care, interspecies relationships and transnational & transracial human adoption. Weaving personal narratives with decolonial queer feminist science studies in an effort to disorient and disturb the normative terms of order that surround us within Western globalized societies. We named Ketan after Indonesian sticky rice.
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Graphic design by Tim Mastik
Paper: Colorplan Factory Yellow and Biotop
Size: 88 x 125mm, B7 format
Outsider within: a conversation by Lucie Draai and Ketan (2020), pdf download