In one of the chapters of the 1959 publication, Plant Pathology: An Advanced Treatise, two scientist, Ikuzo Uritani and Takashi Akazawa, formulated an equation for depicting what a change in the metabolic process of respiration in a plant might look like:

In healthy host cells, metabolism progresses in a well-balanced manner. Since all organisms have some flexibility in controlling their metabolism, it can be assumed that they are able to adjust their metabolism to a new circumstance, so that with a slight environmental modification, the over-all reaction will not be altered significantly. However, with a more drastic change of circumstance, such as the presence of a pathogen, the formation of new metabolic pathways may be observed. We can visualize this situation in the sequence below in which A is normally converted through intermediate B to C. If the velocity of reaction K1 is equal to that of K2 , then A is connected to C without accumulation of B.

However, if K1 is proceeding much faster than K2 or the velocity of K2 is negligible, then B will accumulate and sometimes new reaction sequences may be induced. K3 and K4 indicate those alternative or shunt pathways leading to new abnormal metabolites X and Y. This type of metabolic alteration has been observed in diseased tissues or organs.

This exposition will use this equation as a starting point to think through empathy and more-than-human modes of being. Using disease and the afflicted body (both human and more-than-human) it will explore how art-making and curatorship can translate this equation into the affective and the visual realm through various modes of play and dis(play). In this manner, it will also speak back to, and subvert, the clinical scientific language through which these occurrences are conveyed in scientific communities - making the familiar strange to these practitioners. 

Documentation of these various translations will take on the form of text, sound, video and images of personal explorations, as well as manifestations from a range of other artists and disciplines (such as architects, musicians, historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, to name a few). As such, the exposition will be an expanded 'object-study' of this equation, realised curatorially.