MARINA ZURKOW
Items tagged
Mycelium
2017
Unique objects. Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) mycelium,
coffee husks, metal rods, reclaimed wood
These anthropological artifacts appear here as fossilized remains from a mycocentrically parallel world. We are eaten by petroleum; we continue to believe that oil from rocks makes us immortal, but that promise was a fossil-fueled trick to resurrect itself. Closing the supply chain, making styrofoam substitutes, making sculptures from waste. These sculptures are cast from plastic blister packs and clamshell packaging, and…
2016
Custom animated software in custom steel powder-coated housing, sculptures, shelving, crates, bathing suits, website, books
Production: Sarah Rothberg
Bathing suit/web site collaborators: Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu
Software: Sam Brenner
Web development: Neil Cline
Studio assistance: Ariana Martinez
Commissioned in part by Borusan Contemporary
This work is part of the project:
The ocean makes up 71 percent of our planet’s surface. So, how is it that we know more about Mars than the marine environments of Earth? As impenetrable as the deep oceans are to humans, we imperviously live in a black box of international shipping, reducing the ocean to a surface rather than an environmental…
2019
Custom animation software, custom bathing suits, screens, shipping crates, plaster, 3D prints, mycelium, plexi shelving, custom wallpaper
In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg and Surya Mattu<br>
Software: Sam Brenner <br>
Web development: Neil Cline
Solo exhibition at Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Ålesund, Norway
This work is part of the project:
Part of the group exhibition, “Edge of the Sea”