Mindaugas Gapševičius in collaboration with Jan Georg Glöckner, and participants
MO Museum, 20-22/07/2019
The workshop invited participants to work around information transmitted between organic and inorganic matter. This theme is encompassed in the toolkit “Mycorrhizal Networks or How I Hack Plant Conversations” which was taken as an initial framework for the workshop. The toolkit was developed by Mindaugas Gapševičius in order to experience plant to plant or plant to fungi interaction by connecting an electronic interface and converting data from electrochemical to digital and back to an electrochemical signal.
The 11-year-old Julius took his radio transmitter outside into the museum’s garden, attached it to various plants, and influenced the transmitted signal by touching either the plants or the antenna. Bon experimented with the Faraday Cage idea and, while isolating her plant from the environment, let it “play” its polyphony. Paula used a scientific method for the analysis of two different organisms – fungi and plant – and visualized their differently perceived environments. The collaboration between Beatričė and Justina unfolded as a performance based on speed dating during which the mycelium noise sent through the radio transmitter was transcribed manually on paper.
This workshop was part of “Self-repair Lab,” an art installation and a collaborative framework for biological, chemical, and geological experimentation. The project was kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point and Council for Culture of Lithuania.
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