Moira Williams

Fermented Freedom: Cultures of Preservation will take the form of multiple fermentation workshops (including creating kombucha biofilms), collaborations with local kombucha brewers and fermenters, creating a worldwide kombucha biofilm exchange and along with an archive. The kombucha biofilm archive will act as an alternative economy and living heritage cultural preservation intervention where we will create preservation objects by investigating and documenting the diverse microbial networks and biogeography of the exchanged (local and international) biofilms.

Additionally, I will create a Biofilm Hosting Program. I will ask several kombucha exchangers to “host” biofilms created in Coalesce Lab then return the biofilms for testing and documentation, then send it to another “host’ and so on documenting the potentially shifting microbial network along the way. From the additional biofilm hosting program, I will create a kombucha biofilm book/fanzine documenting the microbial shifts. The work will be printed on kombucha biofilms with fermented indigo.

The Biofilm Hosting Program, fanzine and the co-created heritage preservation objects, scoby exchange and archives are Fermented Freedom: Cultures of

Preservation, a living heritage cultural preservation intervention speaks to all “cultures” and economies both visible and invisible: food, environment, health, history, spirit, cultural identity, the commons and law.

My co-creative practice weaves together performance, group walks, sound, science and sculpture. I invite people to reconfigure familiar objects and social events to offer multiple opportunities for building our social imagination and questioning systems of power and influence. For me, participation is not about homogeneity, it is in service of human connections and our connections to our world: to participate is to generate empathy and vitality.

My performance, public walks, sculpture and sound work connects diverse bodies of knowledge to our environment and its complex ecology teeming with many forms of life and beliefs to ask: “How do we come to know what it is we know? How do we raise our consciousness? How do we venerate the individual and the community?"

Lived Rhythms and Disruptions for the advancement towards ending the control of nature for humanity's benefit and promoting equality, mutual aid and......

A roundhouse diagram dense and meant to be added to, shift and move. Movement includes the eye, body and thought. The diagram peeks into how I go about co-creating performance, group walks, installations; mobile, microbial and otherwise.