Elusive Grounds

Inspired by the elusive shapes, forms and forces of fungi, the group exhibition “Elusive Grounds” itself is a living organism, a sensing installation, which you are able to enter. The hybrid exhibition format is a result of an intensive research phase, where the artists collaborated with the mycologist Martin Schlecht, in order to craft knowledge that mediates multiple sensual experiences and information around the communities of more-than-human entities.

Entanglements of complex ecological processes are facilitated during the exhibition period. We may learn how to change our human perspective on ecological crisis while entering the micro-worlds of fungi and the processes of living, dying and reviving.

The artists are zooming in on the microbial cultures, which only exist in the form of communities. Media artist Laura Fong Prosper’s work ‘lamellae, pores and teeth’ is an interplay between scientific observation, technological synthesis and sentient beings. The CCTV installation was developed in a playful act with her son and creates itself during the interaction with the audience. Listen to fermentation processes with Tin Wilkes and Matías Brunaccis sound installation Composing Habitats, created in collaboration with plonk GmbH: extracted data morphing into sounds, tapping into the fungal networks. A living sculpture where sensors, algorithms and microorganisms create unique ephemeral voices. In For aurality :: mycelia, Niko De Paula Lefort is setting up a hybrid microFM-mycelium ecosystem that amplifies vibrational fields from slight impulses of the mycelium to the movements of the visitors in the gallery to atmospheric changes. The work attempts to light up environmental consciousness and mediate multi-species interconnectivity. Silvia Noronha translates the nouveau discoveries of fungal symbiosis and communication abilities into a visual installation Fluid channels that makes reference to the occult time scales and magnitudes.