CARRYKIN

“caring means becoming subject to the unsettling obligation of curiosity, ” - D. Haraway

CARRYKIN is an experiential futures installation first presented at Blindside Gallery as a part of the Seaweed Appreciation Society ‘Microalgea Mobilisation’ group show in 2023.

In a future shaped by Climate Recovery and a redefined approach to multispecies care, CARRYKIN presents a collection of artifacts from an interspecies surrogacy program operating within a speculative Community Care Clinic. The Carrykin Program refigures multibeing kinship by providing temporary internal stewardship to marine species experiencing precarity due to habitat loss. In this speculative scape, artificial womb implants (Biobag™) allow humans to cross biological boundaries, temporarily carrying and nurturing multispecies kin in the most intimate internal terrain.

Queering the concept of gestation, this collection contemplates the ethics and obligations associated with multispecies care, collaborative survival, the dynamics of affect(ion), and the co-production of equitable transpecies futures that reach beyond binaries and biology.

The installation presented an examination room of a CARRYKIN clinic with design fiction artefacts intended for public interaction, including promotional posters and paraphernalia and pharmaceutical products. All artefacts were designed available to be touched and read by the public.

CARRYKIN was awarded the Most Significant Futures Award in the category Imaginative by the Association of Professional Futurists in 2023.

You can here Luna discussing the work on Futurepod Podcast here.

CARRYKIN is an iterative and ongoing project, currently being developed for future presentations.

Worlding, design, fabrication: Luna Mrozik Gawler

Graphic design: Luna Mrozik Gawler, Stephanie Ochona

Documentation: Sheila Udeagu