Sculpture with pedestal, oyster mushroom grow kit, laptop, video (2012)
Shown in Dabao / Takeout, a touring exhibition to Varley Art Gallery (Markham, ON), Mississauga Gallery of Art (Mississauga, ON), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, MB), Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, BC).
A laptop is re-modeled into a controlled growing environment. The computer is used to host a file, and the heat generated by the computer is captured and channeled into a chamber in which spores are kept at the optimum temperatures for growth and fruit production. In this case, oyster mushrooms grew over the course of the exhibition. This piece is a functioning prototype for a computer processor-heated fungus farm, as further research into the “holding environment,” a space that foregrounds support and potentiality of a group/crop/batch or set.