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Collaboration of Microorganisms Crossing the Boundaries between Humans and Non-humans: Fermentation as an Artistic Practice

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2023, 16(2), pp.285-312
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2023.16.2.285
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 15, 2023
  • Accepted : October 9, 2023
  • Published : October 30, 2023

Hyesook Jeon 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, I examine the meaning of fermentation from the anthropological, historical, biological, cultural and social perspectives. Fermentation has become firmly established in human culture through collaboration and symbiosis between humans and microorganisms. Due to recent changes in the concept of life surrounding microorganisms, the value of fermentation is also changing. Fermentation has both a metaphorical and practical meaning of changing each other in a beneficial way. It is also being used as a positive way to live in the future along with recent discourses of posthumanism and multi-species symbiosis. This paper also examines the possibility and significance of ‘fermentation as an art act’ in the recent works of Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) and Ji-won Woo.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.