close encounter
Jan Georg Glöckner (DE)
Living sculpture (2019)
The work displays a fungus living in a 90 liter bioreactor. In the bioreactor the fungus is kept alive by an artificial life support system that supplies it with the water, sugar, and oxygen that are its basic needs. The fungus adapts to this system and transforms its body into round pellets that are submerged into the liquid. The bodily presence of the fungus in the bioreactor offers humans the chance to observe and to reflect about so-called “natural” and artificial habitats.
