R.O.F.
Republic Of Fungi is dedicated to projects with, about and by fungi.
In particular, it serves as a container for artistic ideas on how the realm of fungi and its manyfold qualities can be made accessible to human thinking. Since spring 2022 we publish links to our own works, but also to found, commissioned or recycled contributions, which we consider suitable to propagate the network of mycetes as an artistically active form of life – not without tongue in cheek.
June 2024
be one of us, AR project in urban space for Roche ARTour.
These mushrooms celebrate the togetherness of organisms with a street party. The expression of their communal being – the parliament of their republic, so to speak - is dancing in a circle. They invite us to join them, to celebrate and to become a little more mushroom.
This project started in 2022 and was amended an extension: People visiting the mushroom group on site can take along a copy of the 3D mushrooms as a giveaway. They can placed anywhere anytime to enjoy the dance of the fungi.
May 2024
Défilé, 3D animation video installation.
Every year, media artists are invited to create a work for one of the stations of the Léman Express city line. For Lancy-Bachet, we have created a new digital animation on two 16 metre public screens.
This project is a collaboration with the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, the office de l'urbanisme and the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.
May 2022
fungible giveaway, web project.
Get your personal mushroom from the Republic Of Fungi: A light-hearted contribution to the ongoing discussion about NFT and gift culture on the Internet.
So far, more than 4000 certified fungible individuals have been given away for free.
2022
Mushrooms, sculpture.
This sculpture was realised for the exhibition "The Language of Mushrooms – The Interspecies Internet" at the Contemporary Gallery in Kunming, China. As it was conceived for interior space, the 3D model could be made of styrofoam and coated white.
May 2022
be one of us, AR project in urban space for Roche ARTour.
These mushrooms celebrate the togetherness of organisms with a street party. The expression of their communal being – the parliament of their republic, so to speak - is dancing in a circle. They invite us to join them, to celebrate and to become a little more mushroom.
2022
mushroom manifesto, pen on paper.
The sacred founding document of ROF
2011/2014
A Band of Floating Mushrooms, permanent Internet and public art project.
A sculptural group of mushrooms on the roof of the House of Electronic Arts in Basel making mushroom music in an eternal worldwide jam session
2011
Mushrooms for Chongqing, public art.
(project not realised)
A group of mushrooms emerging in the Chinese city of Chongqing
2009-2011
Mushrooms, papercraft and 3D printed objects.
A series of experiments with small mushroom objects
2020
(book)
Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake.
How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures
2015
(book)
The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
2020
(book)
A Mycological Foray / Mushroom Book, John Cage et al.
Atelier éditions published a two-volume collection of documents related to mushroom enthusiast John Cage and his very personal take on mycology
1998
(book)
Symbiotic Planet: A New View of Evolution, Lynn Margulis.
A different approach to Darwin's idea of the origin of species, from a scientist/thinker who looks at symbiosis as the leading energy of this planet's evolutionary history
Responsible editors of this site are Swiss media artist duo Studer / van den Berg. For more information, please refer to our website.
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