BIO28: Double Agent: Do You Speak Flower? features a production platform developed with the Centre for Creativity, showcasing interdisciplinary teams mentored by renowned creatives. These teams explore the coded language of flowers and their connection to marginalized groups:

• Beeswax Studio and Grotto by XenoScapers Collective mentored by Matali Crasset, merges beeswax with digital projections to explore the grotesque qualities of matter in a wax-based hyperspace.
• (Un)wowen tales, mentored by Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach, juxtaposes Slovenia’s lace heritage with the erasure of stateless individuals in 1991, challenging ideas of nationality and belonging.
• I’ll be Poppy by El Ultimo Grito is an experimental film blending documentary and fiction. A documentary movie by OSM films reflects on BIO’s 60-year evolution and its creative processes with the help of Maja Šuštaršič.
• Movement for Public Speech by Prostorož mentored by Polonca Lovšin, presents Murmuring Orchids, an installation using orchids as metaphors for women in precarious housing.
• Cattleya by YASA Collective, mentored by Grashina Gabelmann and Michelle Phillips, reclaims the floral metaphor in Don’t Teach a Flower How to Bloom. Through posters and a web platform, the project deconstructs femininity stereotypes, revealing the resilience of flowers and a web platform, the project deconstructs femininity stereotypes, revealing the resilience of flowers and women.

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