Karolina Żyniewicz

The book Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar was like a bible for me during my PhD research and writing my thesis. I have read it a couple of times in various forms, digital and printed, in English and Polish. The printed copy was full of highlighted fragments. Every reading meant new different highlights.
Art Laboratory Berlin offered me their gallery in January/February 2022 for a residency. I used the space and time mainly to meet people for my Signs of the Times project, but waiting for my visitors, I managed to do surgery on Laboratory Life. I cut the highlighted fragments out and located each "biopsy" in a separate test tube, and I sewed a white leather belt holding the samples. The gaps in the text after the cut fragments were filled with paper tape. I put a bit of black soil between two layers of tape. It gives the impression of melted sentences.
The belt is flexible and easily adjustable to various setups.