← Carpophore

Bushes Zone

SPORA exposition

• Venue: Le Wonder, Bobigny
• Dates: June 2025
• Event: Sabbat Sabayon
• Curator / invitation: Pier Sparta

Log cultivation is a low-tech mycological technique: wooden dowels, previously inoculated with mycelium, are inserted into logs drilled right through. The incision is sealed with wax to limit unwanted intrusions, such as other critters or other fungi. Here, Sparta lent me beeswax. The logs are then left outdoors, with no particular care other than being slightly sheltered and raised off the ground. The mycelium settles in slowly and, depending on the incubation period, mushrooms will appear in 6 months, 1 year or 2 years. It is a technique that values attention, long time and the uncontrollable.

Far from fearing contamination, these logs had already been colonised by traces of other organisms passing through. A map of the Wonder grounds coexists with the meanders of typographer bark beetles.

The audience of the exhibition is invited to insert their own dowel, as an intention of involution and long time, dedicated to the perpetuation of the Wonder, to humans, to more-than-humans and to their intermingled zones.