Through art and performance Intimate Organisms invites us to entangle with the complex agency and culture of the more-than-human sphere, imagining the emergence of a tech-enabled nature-connection and respectful coexistence.
At the centre of this multi-artform installation, Bianca Tainsh presents Myc-a, a unique bio-tech artwork creating a terra-biome of flora and microfauna, intimately connected by a network of mycorrhizal fungi. Housed within a custom-fabricated terrarium, biosensors reveal Myc-a’s methodology of mutualism and perpetuity. This ancient culture of interspecies reciprocity offers a compelling vision for escaping the disastrous trajectory of the Anthropocene.
“…a powerful sense of connection between art, audience, and living organisms”. - Amy Jane Collins, Lemonade Letters to Art.
Open daily, 22 - 30 March
- Weekdays 10am - 2pm
- Weekends 10am - 4pm
Opening night: 22 March, 6-8pm | Performances at 7pm. Register for free here.
Join us in a celebration of interspecies synergy as artists unite in a Ritual for Entanglement - a live performance transcending the human sphere into a more-than-human cultural exchange. In an immersive act of symbiosis, humans and Myc-a become entangled in the rhythms of co-existence.
Guiding us into the sonic space of this interconnection, Finley Wegener (Abstract Human Radio) will perform a sound exploration resonating with frequencies that suggest enhanced mycological growth, extrapolating their harmonic and musical implications into an evocative auditory experience.
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Masterclass: Unbounded - The Art of Captivating Projects: Saturday 29 March, 10am - 3pm. Register for $120 per participant here.
This masterclass will teach you how to expand the expressive and imaginative scope of your artmaking. Draw on the vital elements of your existing practice and explore how contemporary methods and thinking can take you on new creative journeys and open new opportunities for exhibition, engagement, and collaboration.
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In-conversation: Entangling Science in the Sublime: Sunday 30 March, 2 - 3pm. Register for free here.
Through a collaboration at the nexus of art and science, an artist and a mycologist practiced conscientious connection in a quest to explore this abstract ideal and cultivate sentient biomes. In this in-conversation artist Bianca Tainsh and mycologist Dr Sandra Tuszynska revisit their collaboration and the discoveries they made by merging their different fields and their deep reverence for nature.
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Come and open your mind to the more-than-human world of Bianca Tainsh's Intimate Organisms at the Arts and Ecology Centre this March.
This project was supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) which is a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Sunshine Coast Council through ArtsCoast to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.