Fungi Media: Performing Fungosexual Mutations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bockowski, Piotr, Author.

Contributor:

Zylinska, Joanna, Editor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Performance art.

Sexual minority culture.

Genre:

Discursive works

Critical Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], Open Humanities Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

Archived and cataloged by Library Stack

CC BY-SA.

Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access