Mesocosm: Room as Policy Making
Milan Exhibition
Date: June 26-29th

Venue 1: BIOF: Blue Institute of Futures,
Via Ludovico di Breme 52, Milan, Italy 20156

Venue 2: Display Spazio

WELCOME TO OUR ROOM



Film Screening:
Zoey Solomon
Sasha Nesen & Mykyta Shkliaruk
Chunjia Fang
Parham Ghalamdar

Music:
Gintas K
Elisa Subba

Digital Art:

Babak Ahteshamipour
&
Nathan Harper

NDNMK Solutions
Alessio Pinton

Performance:
Beate Poikāne
Carolin Melia BrendelSasha Nesen
Installation:
Giah de Los Reyes
Beate Poikāne

Painting:
Chloe Aiko Stark
Mo Chen

Curatorial Artist:
Yidi Wang



Plural Modalities
by
Eternal Terra Ear(s) Collective

Curated by: Yidi Wang



Petal and Motorbike Dialogue-
Self-performing installation by Beate Poikāne

(mixed media installation or  a performative sharing, audio  0'11 min)






Rooms are where we frame our existence. The colors we surround ourselves with, the ways we furnish our lives, and the people and things from outside that we bring in - all of this makes a room. It is where we assert control and where we succumb to innate vulnerabilities, and not everyone has the same one. There are rooms that go for millions of dollars, there are rooms whose walls are made from tent fabric, but within all of us is the tendency to make a space ours, a site that begs familiarity and invites others to it. The oddities that lend personality to a room can be stripped away by money-driven enterprise, and a place can look very different from generation to generation, but unless the minds of the people who inhabit a space are altered beyond repair, what we build and and how we do it will always be a practice intrinsic to the human condition. 

Texts by Chloe Aiko Stark



Ratings badmiddlegreat
Between people against each otherside by sidetogether
Something big wararmisticepeace
Symbolic image of the devilthe human beingimage of the angle (Harvard concept)
Toddler make an ouchdo nothingmake a soft touch
Reaction to Otherness discriminationtoleranceacceptance
Decisions/Votes resistanceno resistance / no assent (abstention)assent
Diversity burden/frighteninggiven situationenrichment/gain
In the game against youfor mefor us
Encounters collisioncoexistence (competition)cooperation
E.g. for word choice naghorsesteed
Climate/Environment ...harmfulnot ...harmful – ...friendly WHO-definition 

Thinking further for a holistic perspective, away from black and white thinking:
What's so great about a red light? For example, when driving:
Use the time to eat something, write something down, look something up, etc.
So that at the end I say, Oh, how stupid! It's green and I unfortunately have to go ... ;-)

“Love” in all three colours: in red – in green – and also in yellow
Colour colour of lovecolour of joycolour of hope
Classic hateindifferencelove
German poem fearit is what it is says lovereason
Meanings of  YELLOW and note: The “ Yellow room” is very large (from edge to red with light orange: connivance = lat. tolerate up to edge to green with yellow-green: coexistence):
as well
* no RED and no GREEN, e.g. no resistance and no concent
* absence / omission of RED and GREEN (both not)
as
* RED and GREEN, e.g. human beeing, yellow face with straight mouth
* presence / existence of RED and GREEN (equally).

Mediation Theory of Colour by Gesine Otto



Biointelligence Research Group

Aerobic Topologies Book by Carolin Melia Brendel

Socio-spatial knowledge practices of fermenting microbes




Beate Poikāne

Beate Poikāne is a visual artist, theatre-maker, and scenographer from Riga, Latvia. Her artistic explorations manifest in various forms at the intersection of visual art and contemporary performing arts. Through methods of worlding and speculative storytelling, she crafts self-performing environments and performances with nuanced visuality. The artworks contain a conversation with actants and non-human performers in shifting hierarchies in an expanded post-human ensemble where the body is in dynamic with spaces, sequences of sculptural elements, and technology. It is an exploration of how imagination relates to space, investigating how the ideas of fictional worlds are interconnected with embodied experiences. Her process is informed by the observations of Latvian post-socialist landscapes of contradictions and socio-economic complexities, lately she issues searching for ways to implement the regional specifics in the character and set build-up, morphing spaces with bodies. Outcomes question the liminality between fantasy and the potential for imagination to become a tool for reshaping existing relationalities and create new belongings. Beate mainly works in mediums of theatre, performance installation and video. 





Collective Core Activities:

Eternal Terra Trust


We draw from long-standing practices in NGO work, informal civic organizing, and cultural institution hacking, particularly in the Global South, to imagine post-national governance practices with planetary relevance.

  1. Decentralized Governance & DAOs:     Building and testing coordination systems, microgrants, and decision-making tools using open-source blockchain infrastructure. 2. Cultural Infrastructure & Education: Hosting workshop sessions, publishing multilingual educational materials, and facilitating regionally grounded research practices. 3. Planetary Eternal Trust:               Advancing new political imaginaries rooted in post-extractivism thinking, planetary care, and Mutual Aid & Trust.



Eternal Terra Ear

As a 


Post-Extractivism Cooperative


Aligning with Fab City Global Network, 

our collective is a Decentralized, Transnational alliance of cultural practitioners, educators, researchers, and grassroots strategists. Our community spans South Africa, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Uganda, Belgium, France, and more, with no fixed headquarters but strong regional nodes and community-led infrastructures. 

Our shared vision is to rethink governance from the ground up, learning from the adaptability and creativity of networks formed in response to crises, from mutual aid networks in refugee NGOs to feminist care structures in post-colonial contexts, and emerging cultural infrastructures for creatives coimagining alternatives on multiple levels.




Key issues such as
Post-disaster Relief,
Climate Advocacy,
Drought Evaluation,
Water Management,
Future Ocean Infrastructural Transition, 
Port Energy Infrastructure, 
and Multispecies Existential Crisis
will be addressed through future policy writing.


 
ETE Artistic Researcher on Deep Ocean: carolin melia brendel

marine media metabolisms

in collaboration with Mona Schieren, Helen Pritchard, Elda Miramontes García, Florence Schubotz and Marlis Reich (Ongoing since 2025)

The project is situated at the intersection of critical media art and theory, artistic research, queer-feminist science studies and the sociology of finance. Audiovisual artistic methods, geoscientific experiments and ethnographic fieldwork constitute the primary methods of the postdisciplinary and intraspecies research collaboration between media artists, economic sociologists, geoscientists and marine fungi.

Ongoing: Weekly Journal
Experimental Art for Future Planetary Policy


To Live in Condition: River Dike Dyeing in Urban Slum
Artist:  Giah De los Reyes
City of Iloilo, Philippines & Milan








Can the Future Health System Cure Tick-Bite-Caused Slow Rotting?

Artist for Future Policy: 
Leon Eichelbaum
Germany










Creatives-Run Think Tank


Bearing the care for humanitarian and ecosystem wellbeing, the Intelligent Earth System is not an inaccessible tool for those in power and privileged, nor to further extract resources from regions under the most severe climate change impact. Together, contributing to the shared policy of environmental and digital transition, we provide Eternal Terra Ear for everyone as an eco-indicator, toolkits, ethical data hub, and playground to better understand ourselves as part of the currently suppressed and over-mined biointelligence.




Consultancy



Eternal Terra Ear intends to bring political, scientific and cultural discussions on spatialized civic infrastructure such as coastal urban place-making, audiovisual augmented reality, and ocean cultural heritage into the global youth training process. 

We are established to impact Climate Science Diplomacy based on innovative civic society, connecting the public and private realms, research institutes, cultural centers, NGO, and governmental bodies contributing to the gathering of a future center as a planetary thinking organ.



Eternal Terra Ear provides consultancy for nature-based solutions and evaluation, residency for creatives, maker space for citizen science.




Policy-Oriented Research
by Yidi Wang
“Risk governance should be framed as a global public good.”

——Kennedy Mbeva and Pamla Gopaul, African Union Development Agency.




Aquacultural Infrastructure
GIS Analysis Hong Kong, 
Bioregional Mapping Zhejiang China,
IAAC Barcelona



EU DSA Application, Meta's Greenwashing Content Detecting 
Sciences Po, The Open Institute for Digital Transformations




Future Design :
Artificial Synaesthesia in Tension Between Sonic And Architectural Composition: Intelligent Computational Infrastructure and Stochastic Redundancy




Published, Exhibited by Posthuman Art Lab, Foreign Objekt, 
The Space Gallery, Los Angeles



Keywords: Sonic Architecture, Artificial Aesthetics, Synaesthesia, Noise, Probability, Stochastic Composition, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Planetary Thinking, Global Infrastructure, Computation and Planning

Digital Cooperative for
Biointelligence