
Overgrowth investigates the Dutch nitrogen crisis, using a more-than-human perspective to trace the entangled lives of cows, milking robots, and resilient plants that bear witness to ecological imbalance.
The project was made during the residency program: "Ploughing Digital Landscapes" organised by WILLOW Online Art Space. Where we focussed on exploring how digital environments can become spaces for reimagining our relationships with the more-than-human world.
Overgrowth
2025





Overgrowth is an interactive environment exploring the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture through more-than-human perspectives. Species that thrive on pollution, such as nitrogen-loving lichens or ammonia-fed dandelions, populate this world deprived of human presence. Their excessive growth, while signaling abundance, is a symptom of ecological distress caused by intensive farming,over-fertilization, and emissions. Through the act of playing, Overgrowth de-centers the subjectivity of human users, as they experience the environment from the perspective of cows stuck in an exploitative and polluting system. The machines employed to improve the efficiency of agricultural processes, such as milking robots and insemination stations, become material witnesses of this multispecies suffering. By learning how to read the messages hidden in the landscape and sensing the effects of carelessness, the work prompts us to imagine new forms of multispecies relations and coexistence.
exhibition and artist talk
photo credit: @Forceddream
The work was made during the Willow art residency, supported by Werc collective, ecovillage Land van Aine, and exhibited at EdanZ, Groningen


