The seventh installment of the series Lessons with the Non-human: an auto/ethnography of Entanglements, titled "Fermentation, Culture, Art," was published in the July 2026 issue of Sekai (Iwanami Shoten). From a perspective that grasps fermentation brewing as a form of performing art—a "gustatory expression"—this article examines the practice of "instauration" in spaces where art and traditional performing arts become entangled. In Maki Ohkojima's installation Where Is Your Placenta Buried?, a space where the dead and the living meet anew comes into being, and the experience of lending my body to a departed friend deepened amid a performance of the shishi-odori (deer dance). Turning further to the Fermentation Culture and Art Festival in Kanazawa, it takes up Sōichirō Mihara's work, which stirs the air of the brewery to bring the presence of its resident microbes to the surface, and explores the principle of "instauration" as the making of a place that calls forth images of the other from within each individual.

