ESPINOZA, NICO - ATTA (K7)

"At the origin of Atta lies a gesture: that of the leafcutter ants who remove fragments of the environment to cultivate a fungus that, in turn, sustains them. This small act of dislocation -cutting nature in order to create a more complex system of life- reveals a proto-technological intelligence: a collective organism that reorganizes its surroundings to extend its own metabolism. In atta, this gesture becomes sound. " (label info)