A lamp, once used by humans, gets overtaken by nature. The lampshade transforms when reishi mushrooms grow through its weave structure, consuming the fabric. The fruiting bodies’ shape and size naturally adapt to their environment, creating a unique object that is also a record of a space. The lampstand is made out of mycelium, the main part of fungi, usually spreading through materials to absorb nutrients. Here, it had been grown in a specific manner to achieve a durable material out of its root-like structure.
Adapted Artifact 258 explores transient human influence on the world and precise adaptive responses of the biosphere. After we are gone, nature will cleanse, adapt, reform and repurpose artifacts of our existence.
Bio
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Photo: Mimi MidorikawaKacper Krajewski
PL
Kacper Krajewski uses installation, sculpture, bioforms, live organisms, and worldbuilding to explore posthuman relationships between human-made entities and nonhumans. His work envisions a future where artifacts of humanity, devoid of their creators, form symbiotic relationships with nature. He explores humanity’s ephemerality and the world’s enduring continuity, questioning if humanity’s extinction means the world’s end and how overcoming our denial of death might prevent this fate.
Credits
Funken Academy
Fraunhofer IWU
Klub Solitaer e.V.
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the FUNKEN Academy project. FUNKEN Academy is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
