To be contemporary might mean to re-learn how to dwell in instability, in uncertainty. Now that the notion of progress (or capitalist modernism) seems quite fragile and finally questionable, anything that once was solid, given, or true is currently in the process of evaporating. The viral pandemic affecting the global human population confirms the volatility of what we understood, until recently, as the stable world. This crisis calls for political aims to articulate newly perceived paradigms, using new tools and new understandings, thereby bringing the “political” to bear on aspects of everyday life that previously appeared natural or pragmatic.
Mush Rooms is a small contribution to this positioning, inhabiting a designed world—indirectly inspired by Donna Haraway’s String Figures (and other SFs) and Bruno Latour’s Gaia (after Lovelock and Margulis), but constituting a work of its own, with its own internal logic and character.
The production of this video was supported by Fundação EDP and MAAT—Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.
Critical Cooking Show is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Istanbul Design Biennial within the context of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.
