sym fiction/ing practice



01.    The Bio in Hybrid Bio-Digital Methods

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



02.    The Digital in Hybrid Bio-Digital Methods

Primary Methods
—Digital photography, cut-outs and collaging
—Photogrammetry, 3D scanning and augmented reality (AR)

Secondary Methods
—Micrographs
—Timelapses
—Electrical signalling




03.    Co-creating & Co-enquiring

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
‘In Bed with Pleurotus’

Feb to Mar 2024: Part of the evolving Take Up Space community exhibition at the Lethaby Window Gallery, led by Ulrike Steven



A fungus-meets-human encounter embracing not knowing or un/knowing, prompted via mycelium growing from two king ken dolls. 

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.

‘Beyond My Ken: 
Gifts for Fungi Companions’ 

March 2025: Part of the Play Dead PhD Symposium at CSM



Storying with Fungi as:


Myecelial Mediators
&
Heritage Eaters