In this experimental video walk, developed as part of Otherwise Polymorphic Futures residency and exhibition program, consists of video vignettes recorded with heat-sensitive camera and narrated by a thermometer, who, having been a witness and an accessory to the shift in understanding of relationship between bodies and environments, is in a position to imagine a counterfactual: it can still see the diverging paths which could have been taken, moments when the same tools could have been used to different ends.

In one vignette, the thermometer-narrator suggests that the thermogenesis in plants can serve as an alternative model of metabolism: a proof that living can be organised differently. This metabolism produces affective atmospheres, heightening emotions and stimulating sensory perception, a process that might be an inspiration for re-conceiving synchronizations with surroundings as a radical response to the increasing volatility of the world. In another of the video vignettes, the viewer watches a video of a woman coming and sitting in a chair in front of her. The woman’s internal body temperature was altered by her thermoregulatory system – she has a fever. Afterwards, the viewer is invited to touch the chair on which the woman was sitting and from which the warmth left by her body still dissipates, sharing-in the inter-corporeality enabled by the heat exchange.