sym fiction/ing artist-researcher
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     MYCELIAL MATCH-MAKING & ARCHIVAL FUNGAL FORAYING

Summer/Fall 2025:
With Queer Britain & Switchboard communities

Spring/Summer 2026: COMING SOON!

   
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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 at Bishopsgate Institute & Wellcome Collection


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.    IN BED WITH PLEUROTUS

Feb to Mar 2024: Co-creating and co-enquiritng as part of the evolving Take Up Space community exhibition at the Lethaby Window Gallery, led by Ulrike Steven.

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.


04. BEYOND MY KEN: GIFTS FOR FUNGI COMPANIONS

March 2025: Part of the Play Dead PhD Symposium at Central Sain Martins.

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.


Fictioning-with Fungi as:


Myecelial Mediators
&
Heritage Eaters


phd student
living systems lab central saint martins
univeristy of the arts london