Max Hooper Schneider's contribution draws both on folk traditions and scientific research. It features a new shadow play and an installation that includes original soundscapes and videoscapes. Schneider worked with a puppet maker in Istanbul to produce the shadow play, based on a traditional satirical show in Turkey,
Karagöz and Hacivat. The puppets, in various states of conflict and mutation, argue, gesture, stamp their feet. 25 watermelons, incarnations of future neomorphic brain-bodies, serve as the play’s audience. The work is a satirical investigation into human dilution in the twilight of the species presumed superiority and the dawn of the planetary ascendance of the non-human.