FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies Mynther, Sandra Trostel)
Zoopticon - Songs from a Posthuman Ark, 2023
FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies Mynther, Sandra Trostel), Zoopticon - Songs from a Posthuman Ark, 2023, Video still, Courtesy the artists
FAIRY BOT was founded as a non-hierarchical, transmedia collaboration between the composer and lyricist Thies Mynther (*1968, Bamberg, DE), the filmmaker and editor Sandra Trostel (*1976, Baden-Wuerttemberg, DE) and the filmmaker and illustrator Jon Frickey (*1979, Stade, DE).
Their animated film Zoopticon – Songs from a Posthuman Ark is celebrating its Hamburg premiere at the Kunsthaus. It tells the story of a spaceship, loaded with terrestrial life forms and cultural artefacts, that humanity has sent out into the universe as a greeting to distant galaxies. An incident causing a jolt in the spaceship brings the genetic material of five animals from different continents to life in petri dishes. Initially, these mutated singing animals travel through space and time completely isolated from each other. When they eventually meet and realize that they all are basically living souvenirs launched into space as part of a theme park, they emancipate themselves. The film is about notions of identity within and outside of society, about cultural memory and questions a future without colonial and nation-state structures.