Unstable Ecologies: Between Possible Organs and Latent Lives is an exhibition by Alize Armet, Jacqueline Beaumont, and Yue Cheng, presented at Ada X, Montreal. The exhibition brings together works using biosensors, sequencing technologies, and algorithmic systems to engage with biological processes, microbial environments, and computational feedback.
Unstable Ecologies takes as its starting point the biomedical paradigm through which living organisms have long been made legible: stabilized inside Petri dishes, incubators, and monitoring screens, rendered observable, isolatable, measurable. Against this framework, the exhibition proposes a different optic. Life here is not an object of observation but a relational system in constant transformation, shaped by feedback loops between organisms, materials, and technical infrastructures.
Grounded in the concept of biomedia, the works by Alizee Armet, Jacqueline Beaumont, and Yue Cheng mobilize biosensors, sequencing technologies, and algorithmic processes to engage with biological signals that exceed human perception. What emerges is not translation but negotiation: partial, fragile, and ongoing. Rather than resolving the tensions between the biological, the technological, and the imaginary, the exhibition holds them open, framing life as relation, process, and latency.
A public program will accompany the exhibition, including an opening, guided tours, an artist talk, and a workshop focused on biomedia, biocomputation, and relational ecologies.
