POKING SYSTEMS – Celebrating Synfluence playfully challenges the idea that living systems can be controlled or stabilized through linear thinking or force. What happens if, instead, we gently poke them? What if we tune in to their inner nature, their rhythms, their needs – with all our senses?

From forests and cities to schools, societies, and our own bodies – living systems constantly interact, transform, and adapt. This multisensory installation invited you to enter a space of experimentation and resonance. It offered subtle but evocative impulses: sensory cues, poetic fragments, scientific insights – to expand our circles of attention and care beyond the human.

The scenographic arrangement presented a fragile forest of “poking poles”: plastered branches collected in Songkhla and the Vienna Woods, inscribed with words, quotes and reflections from artistic research workshops held in Europe and Southeast Asia. Ephemeral terms – formed from powder on the floor – extended the language of the poles and created a subtle landscape of insights inspired by General Systems Theory.