‘Life and Death’ by Friends and Associates, for Melbourne Design Week 2020.

Godlight

A design collaboration with Philippa Abbott. It is one of the ongoing experimental fabrication outputs from our Mycelium Lab.

Originally this piece was installed alive, growing/breathing mycelium as part of NGV Design Week exhibition ‘Life and death’, by Friends and Associates. It would grow (or die) through the ten day exhibition as it interacted with the environmental conditions of the exhibition space... The audience was given a choice - to spray with water and help it grow, or spray with peroxide and stop it growing (or do nothing). For us an exploration of behavioural product, organic forms, sensory immediacy and the relationship between consumerism and ecological death.

Ironically the exhibition was shutdown after opening night due to Coronavirus lockdown, the light dying in isolation and becoming it's final form - due to this extreme environmental factor.

ToadStool

A collaboration with Killing Matt Woods.

The project takes the form of a classic stool however the traditional means of production have been replaced with that of living & growing organism. Mycelium.

Currently exhibiting at PLAY, by Design Tasmania, for MONA FOMA.