EP.2 Nature as a co-author with Adam Tenorio
What does it mean to co-create with other species? In this episode of Under the Surface, we speak with Adam Tenorio, a Swiss-Salvadoran multimedia artist and researcher based in the Netherlands whose practice sits at the intersection of ecology, scent, philosophy and the absurdity of contemporary existence. Drawing on multispecies philosophy and the work of Donna Haraway, Tenorio credits non-human species (abalone shells, orange trees, scent molecules) not as materials, but as co-authors and agents in their own right. Through installations, workshops, painting and olfactory research, his work quietly dismantles the boundaries between human and non-human. In this conversation, we explore what scent can reveal that sight cannot, what an orange tree might have to say about our relationship with the natural world.
