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How to make culture
Instalation
2024
Porto, Portugal
wooden table, crochet doily, glass jars, kombucha scoby, sugar, Camellia Sinensis and water.
Scoby stands for Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast. It is, as it says, a colony of bacteria, that ferment the tea and sugar, making kombucha, which is a living brewed drink. When we drink it, the bacteria and yeast move in to our gut flora, integrating our microbiota, inhabiting and colonizing our body.
In Social Anthropology, Culture defines a complex whole of knowledge, making, rituals and habits of a ethnic or social group.
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