Eco Expo:
Erik Peters
The World’s Green is Rotting Lime
Erik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher engaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytelling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of being through collaborative formats of making, researching and staging. Exploring queer ecology as a roadmap to alternative futures, they weave pathways between the possible worlds persistently emerging from a world in planetary crises.
The World’s Green is Rotting Lime is an ecopoetic audiovisual installation that speculates on future ecologies emerging from plastic pollution. The work follows the discovery of a new parasitic flower morphospecies that has evolved to adapt to the infiltrating amounts of microplastics found in the earth’s layers. The work is produced in collaboration with Funda Baysal (3d-printed ceramics), Ymer Marinus (audiovisuals) and Jao San Pedro (translation and narration).
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Our cultural program aims to deepen the ecological and social dialogue initiated by our festival. Featuring an Eco Expo and a live audiovisual concert, it offers rich material for contemplation and discussion.
1 - 7 June
mo. 17:00 - 22:00tue. - fri. 14:00 - 22:00
sat. - sun. 11:00 - 22:00
at Studio/K
7 June | Exhibition tours | Studio/K
16:00 - 16:45
18:00 - 18:45
The three artists will show you their work and tell you more about their ideas, visions and inspiration.
︎︎︎ the eco expo is free to visit︎︎︎
Curatorial text:
Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection, shaped by power, loss, and forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Expo of Sprouts Film Festival, three artists glean from what remains: a parasitic flower evolving through plastic pollution, a fictional Caribbean island scarred by colonization and memory loss, and a disabled bull, sole survivor of a colonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian Ocean island. Together, their works ask what grows when we return to what was left behind, and how inherited images, objects, and histories can be composted into new ecologies of meaning.
