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Fungi Media: Performing Fungosexual Mutations

Fungi Media: Performing Fungosexual Mutations

Bockowski, Piotr

Paperback

Series: Media: Art: Write: Now

General SociologyPerformance Art

ISBN10: 1785421395
ISBN13: 9781785421396
Publisher: Open Humanities Press
Published: Jul 15 2024
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles. This theoretical perspective repositions queer sexualities in the context of the original meaning of the term 'queer', which is 'rot' - and which stands for a fungi-induced process of decomposition. With this, Fungi Media explores the foundational importance of rot for both breaking down and sustaining bodies, relationships and life as such. The project was developed in a squatted sewage space in London, adopted by the author as a laboratory for mutant performance. The space hosts Chronic Illness events, where Internet-inspired body artists enter an environment populated with fungi. The interventions of human performers are incorporated into the rotten physiology of the space, which itself becomes a live entity. This book involves those events in the analysis of connections between media technologies and primal life processes. It also offers strategies for urban dwelling which transcend normative family life.

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