Non-linear fungal exhibition space Summary:
Fungi is the essential infrastructure of healthy ecosystems. They deconstruct dead matter, recycle, collaborate with the plants and animals around them and redistribute the available resources so that the entire ecosystem may thrive.
Interdisciplinary research into human production of trash and fungi in their natural ecosystems generated five topics of interest that were thus explored non-linearly through a process of making, re-making, and fungal modes of exploration.
The project unfolded (and keeps unfolding) gradually, expanding outwards in all directions with no clear end goal other than building strong relationships of mutual benefit to the living and non-living entities it encountered.
This approach transmuted trash into opportunities, generated multispecies spaces and initiated conversations and collaborations with companies working within circularity, food production, unconventional materials and even accounting. It cleaned mental clutter in a Swedish forest, dived into numerous waste containers and produced over 1.2 tons of a biomaterial made from only cellulose rich industrial waste and fungi.
Graciously supported by:
Hella Sopperi – a local gourmet mushroom farm that donated enormous quantities of Spent Mushroom Substrate
The Kombucha – an organic kombucha brewery in Bergen that donated 100kg+ of SCOBY and some bottles of delicious kombucha
Explore the underground networks at
https://undergroundresistance.cargo.site/ & https://jonashoiness.com/Underground-Resistance-2023
jonashoiness.image1 Ever-evolving studio space made from waste materials
Ever-evolving studio space made from waste materials
Brick wall made with broken bricks, wooden off-cut bricks and mycelium bricks
Brick wall made with broken bricks, wooden off-cut bricks and mycelium bricks
Mycelium brick experiments
Various mycelium experiments
Incubation tent
celium bricks fusing together
Fungi finding new ways
The living brick
Early stage rebellion
Mycelium acoustical plate with textile
Mycelium acoustical plate with broken umbrella
Mycelium acoustical plate - regular
Mycelium acoustical plate with broken umbrella 2
Mycelium acoustical plate with gravel
Mycelium acoustical plate with strings
Mycelium acoustical plate made with spent mushroom substrate 1
Mycelium acoustical plate made with spent mushroom substrate 2
Mycelium bowl made with found sticks
Mycelium bowl made from hollowed out chunk of spent mushroom substrate
Sculpture of broken pieces - completely fused together
Structure of broken pieces - completely fused together
Structure of broken pieces - completely fused together, closeup
ations in fungal space
Mycelium slate in the making
Mycelium slate in the making - closeup
Mycelium columns fusing together
Entanglement
Entanglement 2
A symbiotic compound of bacteria and yeast
Self-grown kombucha leather
Translucent qualities of kombucha leather
Spent mushroom substrate collected from Hella Sopperi
Mycelium slate in the making 3
Web of fungal exploration - see more at jonashoiness.com
