This exhibition was an investigation into tactility, our relationship with the natural world, and the increasingly digitally-mediated nature of experience today. It explored the existence of natural cultures and digital layers within the Napenape landscape. Visitors were offered kombucha and sweet black tea, its raw ingredients, in an incorporation of viewers into the work.
Kombucha SCOBY is a by-product of kombucha culture, a cellulose material produced through human-bacteria-yeast co-operation.
Low-Poly Slump, 2019, exhibition, installation view, bamboo, 3D-printed bioplastic, kombucha SCOBY, inkjet print on paper, dimensions variable, Casting Room, Ilam School of Fine Arts.
From left to right: Low-Poly Slump, On Exactitude, and Feeling Vibrant.
From left to right: Low-Poly Slump, On Exactitude, and Feeling Vibrant.
Feeling Vibrant (details: Days 1 and 3 of exhibition), 2019, bamboo, 3D-printed bioplastic, kombucha SCOBY, Casting Room, Ilam School of Fine Arts. Left: Day 1 - fresh and wet. Right: Day 3 - partially dried.
Feeling Vibrant, detail.
Low-Poly Slump, 2019, installation view, bamboo, 3D-printed bioplastic, kombucha SCOBY, inkjet print on paper, dimensions variable, Casting Room, Ilam School of Fine Arts. Left: Low-Poly Slump. Right: On Exactitude.
On Exactitude (detail), 2019, kombucha SCOBY the width of the artist’s foot, Casting Room, Ilam School of Fine Arts.
Assimilate, 2019, kombucha, sweet black tea, laser-engraved kombucha SCOBY served to visitors, dimensions variable, Casting Room, Ilam School of Fine Arts.
Low-Poly Slump exhibition poster, designed and produced by Libby Barker from photograph by Giselle Fortune, 2019, risograph on paper, 295 x 595mm.
