With this participatory installation, visitors are invited to mutate, to join THEBADWEEDS A trans-species music group that is part-human, part-plant. Its hybrid members embody a queer ecological transition: they grow from oblivion, cracks, and the most inhospitable places, humorously demonstrating the resilience and resistance of weeds.

The immersive experience invites the audience to transform and mutate through dance, offering a festive and playful perspective on ecological transition.



"We must now learn to feed no longer on death (oil) but on life (the sun)."

Eco-responsible commitment also involves the desire and the will to embrace attractive futures, to participate in an imaginative world based on pleasure. In response to catastrophic, alarmist, anxious and fatalistic imaginaries, to imaginaries of fear and guilt, Rocio Berenguer has taken up the challenge of creating an eco-sexy story: THEBADWEEDS.

The members of this music group are trans: trans-species, trans-planetary, they embody ecological, feminist and queer transitions, and the ability to live where they are not expected: in the margins and in the centres, in the cities and in the fields. They embody this uncontrollable life force that, against all odds and beyond all control, flourishes.

Initially created as a concert performance, this participatory adaptation was commissioned by mudac to allow everyone to mutate, to experience the transition, to become one of them.

The installation offers a three-part journey: the first part, where one discovers the universe of THEBADWEEDS through a video; the second, where one dances to mutate (our new plant body forms as we perform the movements of the choreography); and the third, where one finds one's new mutant body. Proof, if any were needed, that the future will be vegetal!

A project by Rocio Berenguer commissioned by mudac on the occasion of the Soleil.s, Solar Biennale 2 currently on show at mudac (21.3 – 21.9-2025)