Warmly welcome to the The Posthumanities Hub Webinar “Electric Flora”, with special guests Lerin/Hystad

In this Posthumanities Hub webinar artist duo Lerin/Hystad will present their work focusing on the new book Electronic Flora. Central to Lerin/Hystad’s modus operandi is a principle of ecological interconnectedness that manifests the undeniable presence of more than human worlds. Their main objective is to dismantle the anthropocentric view that humans are the most perfect and intelligent species on this planet, while inviting us to reconsider non-human intelligence and complexities as valuable diversity. In the book Lerin/Hystad documents their meetings with more than a hundred different plants through sketches, text, and music. Lerin connects sensors to the plants that Hystad has carefully drawn in their environment. The sensors register electrical currents that plants produce through their biological rhythms and form a communicational network with animals, bacteria, and fungi.

The otherness of the non-human is by nature inexpugnable. The baseline that humans are sharing the planet with them, at this point in its evolutional history, entails making kin while negotiating distance. In line with the mounting environmental concerns, Lerin/Hystad began to nurture the desire to present less mediated encounters with nature.

The book Electronic Flora also includes texts by scholars such as Giovanni Aloi, Michael Marder and Timothy Morton.

Bio Lerin/Hystad

Artist duo Lerin/Hystad comprises Simon Torssell Lerin and Bettina Hvidevold Hystad. Since 2010, they have been working together in the borderlands between visual art and experimental music. Lerin/Hystad have studied at the University of Arts, Craft and Design and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm as well as at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway. During the spring of 2024 they were artists in residence in Stockholm as part of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s IASPIS programme. The duo’s work has recently been exhibited at Färgfabriken (Stockholm, 2025), Konsthall C (Stockholm, 2024), Atletika Gallery (Vilnius, 2024), Naturkulturreservatet Marhult, the Småland Triennial (2023), Härke Konstcentrum (Östersund, 2023), Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter (Molde, 2023), NAIRS Contemporary Art Center (Scuol, 2019), and Värmlands Museum (Karlstad, 2019). Lerin/Hystad are also active musicians and have toured Europe, China, and Japan.

Join us on Thursday 24th of April at 13.15 – 15.00 (CEST)

Zoom link: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/7402234640?omn=69278620903