mushrooms also remember, 2025
fungi, bacteria, analog slides, magnetic tape, Super 8 film, projectors, magnetophone
variable dimensions
“Every archive is subject to its own disappearance.” — Jacques Derrida
Over several months, fungi and bacteria were introduced to analog film, slides and magnetic tape, consuming and transforming the images they preserve. The resulting deterioration exposes the precarity of memory technologies, while biological mutations generate new forms of information through decay.
