Throughout this evening, the Rot Society collective presents edible and inedible sculptures i varying states of dcay, alongside performative and auditory interventions. Together they explore the puzzle of collective mourning – and the generative possibilities inherent in decomposition.
Sugary, mineral, fibrous, and liquid materials take part in a meaning-making, shared process with the collective and the audience. We share food, listen to musical offerings, and simply talk with one another – taking a moment to digest both what we consume and our lived experiences.
At the core of Rot Society are four artists — Ayesha Jordan, Javon Bennett, manuel arturo abreu, and John Andrew Wilhite — united by a shared premise: that rot, digestion, and nourishment are not distinct states but fluid transitions.The smell of a Caribbean-Nordic meal, shaped by fermentation, slow-cooking, and melted caramelized abundance, spreads throughout the room where music, sculpture, and organic matter merge and blur into one another. What emerges is less a performance offered to an audience than a temporary community, formed through shared ingestion: Bodies, sugars, microbes, and sounds intertwine – and disperse again.
● Rot Society is a collective comprising non disciplinary artist manuel arturo abreu, composer John Andrew Wilhite, artist and baker Javon Bennett, and performer and permaculturalist Ayesha Jordan. The collective grounds itself in the environment's agency, exploring how human communities create collective meaning through ritual, art, and theater.
Through gestures of burial, encapsulation, sounding, glossolalia, bass, and microtonal durational forms, they experiment with sonic sculptures, sound art, performance, and immersive multimedial theatrical installations. The project revolves around the life cycle, decay as a prerequisite for growth, the reclamation of social detritus and eclipsed cultures, nourishment, organic music, and more.
● Musicians from Wolfskin Ensemble
Time and location: Coming soon!
