Sunjoo Lee presents Garden of Mnmemonics (2026)
she/her
22 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Garden of Mnemonics is a living installation where memory, sound, and energy emerge from microbial processes. Small computers “chirp” using electricity generated by bacteria in mud-filled ceramic vessels, activating only at intervals as the system metabolises. Developed through collective workshops, the work traces an entanglement of ecosystems and technologies, imagining forms of energy production attuned to the rhythms of the Earth and shaped by both human and more-than-human collaboration.
Project initiation, workshops guidance & making of the art installation: Sunjoo Lee
Fiction writing & ceramics: Ayşe Nur Akin, Matilde Calamandrei, Alexandra Cooke-Kasyanto, Faye Gin, Allegra Greher, Pieter H, Laura Häberli, Ko-Yu (Sara) Huang, Hwia Kim, Shary Kock,, Sonia Srikuruwal, Magdalena Matlok, Vincent Rang, Noam Youngrak Son, Sunjoo Lee
About the artist
Sunjoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands, working across art, technology, and ecology. Her practice explores biomimicry, emergence, and more-than-human systems, often in collaboration with ecologists and engineers. Through multimedia installations, she investigates relationships between biosphere and technosphere, proposing alternative technological imaginaries grounded in symbiosis. Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica, iii, iMAL, and STRP, and she is currently an artist in residence at FIBER Reassemble Lab.
