Bio as in biological and auto/biographical
Methods include
—Growing mushrooms from personal and found objects
—Auto/biographical lab notes meets poetic journalling
—Archival fungal forays
Primary Methods
—Digital photography, cut-outs and collaging
—Photogrammetry, 3D scanning and augmented reality (AR)
Secondary Methods
—Micrographs
—Timelapses
—Electrical signalling
Anonymous Take Up Space community messages became stimulus for selecting personal objects with queering signifiance to continue the conversation and invite a fungi takeover of the gallery
Feb to Mar 2024: Part of the evolving Take Up Space community exhibition at the Lethaby Window Gallery, led by Ulrike Steven
CSM students and staff were invited to give anonymous personal objects and hand-written notes to the fungi, from which our queer, non-binary companions may fruit, literally and figuratively.
Gifts for Fungi Companions’
March 2025: Part of the Play Dead PhD Symposium at CSM