Pyro Bodies
Solo- Exhibition
Artist run space New Jörg >>
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a550d63ecb526a6cfc3d726faf664b7d606ab974adaa83fd4c888918c2c43819/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-6.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bd447df5d40ac8af7f6232b0f1f0125e366f678364201f0d6e11b26afbb4132/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-11.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4688744f6348b3ba65118cf67f6530a7d5d38873f6ae02b14d38de927da9c098/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d566852e7e2f88beb3e5ba2c0f2b14827db305106bcb790a2fd8e854d7b31fc2/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-23.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c8e6d048d904ea7e117384b9cb53e992c0273f2af46f6b869de4a17028b3ae7/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-5.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/109219be15a607ede637ef97daa9d79be6f19e0ed4f8db42a5ff63f441946a50/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-22.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fe26f31fbd5ef17afbe8caa9e2eee4637c52953bff7150aef4f86b63b4b83e5/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-7.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/583f6a30c2c69597bd9c569cb81851997a42d90db1be4f8ff52a7e0a3a28b70b/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-15.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b72913d7cf4dae214fb3e2cb22b5f5ed932ee07b4b6d751bd84c8cdad87ed787/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-13.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f59e9d69f74342b7ef073222fb8869fc33cf9125103d620c5346b855905a681/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-12.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9823a823c6ad1a8f844161c72b65fe6b17aa13fc31896a00bb50f9850300353b/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-26.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8807a13f8cd37a7ee064289513123ef0479d20706be399075a93fa457a9d508d/thumbnail.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc997909d4e6d4e80f7948012344d00219eb995eb8ff836dc54bdba46e000813/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-8.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/293143d385e784ad10a9c1f2a5b4f3542f153c481d6a683666bcca4714c4c5be/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-30.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a7d26547d7feaa542c608843c84df9f64d61072d0c3ca15c3d0c6d1b9c586a7/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-27.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06da68e1174b72b4bef7032ad21efe99a2a5ae829518fa6b58552d70b18743f1/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-28.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0b0f4f821c32ca8f0ef0c1a3b8683d0405bd2344b07e8f60b9d508e77baa746/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-24.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a145984234b21d66e25d46f8543132d9ef02e7aae1e33828c190fe98bb6d00e/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-19.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1df918b74206913b732e37a5e86176047a719bb6c2fc72618de5f25b0612653e/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-18.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1727f030f0ea44164d1812f6a3a3d2c84c8bab5e08ff2c2d3bc8f53acaf17a7/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-20.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f7613d2ceac9dfcad580830db7a2f4ad43e876d160456fc8e57a7b12eb5159e/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-21.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4688744f6348b3ba65118cf67f6530a7d5d38873f6ae02b14d38de927da9c098/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-3.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb043f0193528709c300d3f8839c152cbb6babff12aff0a0fa5ecf37f26ddbd7/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-31.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e724ee9cf95cd96cab9fbe53a9e457799d7be06b67206b2e598fe225db18c6f/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-17.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e744a64407ae12995c5e75ff7ca10ed00b71f0913da4cc25bcf6b257c36b350d/KristinWeissenberger-PyroBodies-100920-16.jpg)
Pyro Bodies is an installation with experimental ceramics and objects from dried mushroom mycelium.
The sculptural series Pyro Bodies has been inspired by findings of pyroplastic pebbles on a beach in Milos, Greece, in 2019. Plastiglomerates or pyroplastics are amalgams of natural debris and burnt plastic waste, of human origin. Eroded by the elements pyroplastics get a stone like appearance, like something geological.
This process of formation brings up questions about authorship and agency. Agency cannot be reduced to single entities, no matter if human or non-human, but it can be interpreted through networked interactions of human and non-human actors and actants.
In analogy to the formation of pyroplastics stoneware, earthenware, glass, stones or metal are melted together into material-semiotic composites.
The mycelium objects, preserved by heat after processes of nurturing and growth, explore the same questions concerning authorship and agency and ask in what way material-semiotic interactions influence our morality, ethics and politics, since mycelium is seen as a sustainable substitute for plastics. Pyro Bodies is also a speculation about what could possibly be found on future beaches.