Fu(n)ga is a spatial and bio-sonic experiment that explores the relationship between enzymatic processes with fungi, controlled environments, and acoustic vibrations. It reveals the creation of space as metabolic growth, stimulated, mediated and supported by temperature, humidity, air, and sound. Fungal activity and visitors’ presence are entangled within an auditory landscape, responding to their breathing patterns in polyphonic feedback loops between growth and sound.
The bio-sonic listening sessions are curated listening performances that invite the audience to tune in to the polyphonic and multitemporal sonic environment created by Fu(n)ga. The performance evolves in three parts: Introduction, Listening, and Breathing. Over the course of the performance, listeners become performers themselves, along with Gonderma lucidum, Trametes pubescens, and the artists.
Language: EN
Participants are encouraged to stay during the entire listening session. The room may be fully darkened at times.
Fu(n)ga, photo: Tiziano Derme & Nadine Schütz, 2024
Fu(n)ga, photo: Tiziano Derme & Nadine Schütz, 2024
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Photo: Clément Willemin, 2024Nadine Schütz
CH
Nadine Schütz is a sound architect, artist, and researcher based in Paris and Zürich. She explores auditory environments as creative scores that inform and direct their own transformation. Her installations, compositions, scenographies and performances connect space and listening, landscape and music, the human and the non-human. Nadine holds a PhD in landscape acoustics from ETH Zurich and is currently a guest composer at IRCAM-STMS at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Photo: Pascal WaldenTiziano Derme
IT
Tiziano Derme is an architect and media artist exploring the relationship between design, emergent materials and biotechnology. He is co-founder and director of MAEID (Büro für Architektur und transmediale Kunst). Currently, he is a visiting scientist at EMPA, researching enzymatic processes based on filamentous fungi. Tiziano is also a PhD researcher at ETH Zürich, in the Chair for Digital Building Technologies (dbt), Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA).
Credits
ETH-Zürich Digital Building Technologies (dbt), Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global,
Collaborators: MAEID – Büro für Architektur & multimediale Kunst, ECHORA – Landscape Acoustics & Sound Architecture
Audio software development: Mathieu Preux, Advice: Manuel Poletti
Technical support hardware and software: Che Wei Lin, Tobias Hartmann, Kwon Hyuk Sung
The project has been produced in the frame of the ArTS Production Grant for Swiss Artists supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Presented with the kind support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
