A biologist has made a disturbing discovery.

For a small audience, he shares his investigation into aliens, biology and rare encounters.

In the lecture performance Symbiosis, scientific facts and personal obsessions become entangled. Stories of UFO sightings, forbidden ideas and strange orchids begin to resonate in unexpected ways. The biologist follows these connections, not entirely sure whether he is uncovering a pattern or inventing one.

At the heart of his discovery lies a radical idea about the origin of complex life: Lynn Margulis’ theory of endosymbiosis. An idea that was ridiculed for decades, and that drove those who pursued it toward isolation, paranoia, and worse.

Symbiosis is a speculative journey through scientific discoveries, ecological entanglements, and the unorthodox idea that life evolves not through competition, but through intimacy.

Symbiosis is the first part of a trilogy inspired by Jeff VanderMeer’s cult novel Annihilation – a universe where science fiction, horror and ecology converge. While The Empty Lot reveals the hidden ecology of urban wastelands and Annihilation brings the novel to the stage, Symbiosis begins as an investigation and character study.