Do you want to go to Outer Space last summer? (2025)

Currently on display at the Royal College of Art.

Calling Mycelium! (2025)

Blue Oyster mushroom mycelium on plastic toys from ebay

Blue Oyster mushroom mycelium on plastic toys from ebay

Golden Rishi mycelium on upcycled Tamagouchi shell

Mycelium and bacteria are ancient yet present. They build tree wide networks, penetrate
human-made buildings, and consume plastics. To find a strategy against climate change, we
need to work together with non-human actors and our ecosystem.

With reference to future archaeologies, the artist allow mycelium to grow on obsolete technology, such
as a cheaply produced broken tamagotchi. These mycelium objects speculate a
post-catastrophic future where a symbiotic relation develops between fungus network and
human waste, e.g. plastic and obsolete technology, creating a hope for future coexistence.

Waters of Worlds (2025-ongoing)

The artist collects samples of liquids from various places ( Dover seaside, Hyde Park pond etc.) and take microscopic photography from collected samples. They are intrested in liquid as a coherent and binding element that penetreates boundaries, in the form of a drop of water or a water resource.

The project is ongoing as the artist will be continue taking samples of water on her journey in life.

A Biologist’s Table (2025)

In the Age of Enlightenment, reason and science are seem as the primary source of authority and legitmacy.

A Biologist’s Table (2025) is a performance by the non-humans. Resting on the enlarged microscope images, odd models and prototypes are injected with spirulina and mycelium. The actors here are micro-organism, the simple single-cell creature that are neglected. Slow photosyntheis and irrational cellular level movements are central to the performance.

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Do you want to go to Outer Space last summer? (2025)

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Calling Mycelium!
Waters of Worlds (-ongoing)
Do you want to go to Outer Space last summer?
Cobalt Haze
A Biologist’s Table
Xiaoju’s Dream
Aqua City

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