Baitball 02, exhibition views, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy

January-March 2022

The second edition of the Baitball project opens its doors from January 17th to March 15th at Palazzo San Giuseppe in Polignano a Mare.

Baitball is a hybrid, a crossbreed between a long-term project art fair and a collectively curated exhibition, it is a shared dimension, a way to live and co-evolve together through differences, dreaming up new worlds to become-with-others.

*A bait ball occurs when small organisms (fish, birds, insects) move tightly compacted in a spherical formation around a common center. It is a defensive measure adopted to escape the threat of predators, but it is also a cohesion exercise enhancing the hydro-aerodynamic functions.

A coordinated bait ball shimmers in unison, hundreds or thousands of individuals move together apparently under radio control or directed by predetermined choreography, even if there is no leader or hierarchy within them.

The “balls” are formed through that spontaneous emergence known as self-organization. It emerges from the bottom upwards, it is an a-centered and non-linear phenomenon, it is an irreversible process, which thanks to the cooperative action of subsystems lead to more complex structures in the global system.

Hannah Bohnen, Knot I (mozza), 2021, lacquered MDF, 65x45 cm

Baitball 02, exhibition views, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy

January-March 2022

The second edition of the Baitball project opens its doors from January 17th to March 15th at Palazzo San Giuseppe in Polignano a Mare.

Baitball is a hybrid, a crossbreed between a long-term project art fair and a collectively curated exhibition, it is a shared dimension, a way to live and co-evolve together through differences, dreaming up new worlds to become-with-others.

*A bait ball occurs when small organisms (fish, birds, insects) move tightly compacted in a spherical formation around a common center. It is a defensive measure adopted to escape the threat of predators, but it is also a cohesion exercise enhancing the hydro-aerodynamic functions.

A coordinated bait ball shimmers in unison, hundreds or thousands of individuals move together apparently under radio control or directed by predetermined choreography, even if there is no leader or hierarchy within them.

The “balls” are formed through that spontaneous emergence known as self-organization. It emerges from the bottom upwards, it is an a-centered and non-linear phenomenon, it is an irreversible process, which thanks to the cooperative action of subsystems lead to more complex structures in the global system.

Hannah Bohnen, Knot I (mozza), 2021, lacquered MDF, 65x45 cm