exotica
exo- outside
is there any outside?

Picture 1 – 4 Galerie Nord

to trade in the exotic
to create kitsch

exotic weather
exotic species
plant and animal species
fungi
proctocists
bacteria

where is there a line between exotic and invasive?
in some biologies and nature cultures

exotic is harmless, no threat to the endo- to interior of the
bounded entity,
species,
selfie selfie me me memes,
an ecology,
a nation-states.

the exotic is harmless, often sexualized other, safely consumable exciting but digestible.
titillating aesthetically pleasing but harmless
consumable marginal other

producer at risk

high art / low art
recognition and dismissal
kitsch

endosymbiosis –

partial infection – partial digestion

can exotic be camouflage for the invasive?
camouflaging in consumerist objectifications?
can it seem digestible, consumable but really carry infection?
ecological modes of seduction and invitation.
new possible relations, making new symbionts

to allow, to open space and time to otherwise impossible subversion
(no margins no centers)

funny the timing
effects, how both
imaginary of pasts and futures
stimulate exotica

laowei
gringo
farang
redneck hippie
islander
outsider
ecosexual

outside
no real outside
particular enactments of semi-permeable
membranes

Picture 5 – 14 Galerie M