Process documentation · mycelium growth · time as material
INTERSPECIES ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHIVE
cataloguing specimen
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INTERSPECIES ARCHAEOLOGY
accession no: IA-ΣK-01
material: mycelium composite · human skull form
status: bio-fabricated relic · speculative fossil
Human skull cultivated in mycelium. Funerary object and organic archive.
The piece is presented as an archaeological relic from a post-human future: living matter
that preserves memory beyond the human species.
Interspecies archaeology imagines strata where human and fungal agencies co-produce culture.
Here, the remainder is not a ruin but an organism. The skeletal form acts as support; the mycelium as a writing network.
Inoculation · colonisation · consolidation. Drying and stabilisation.
Mycelium transforms waste into structure. Growth and fossil occur simultaneously.
In a future ecosystem, archives could be biological: tissues that remember and recombine.
This piece proposes a museology of the living: vitrines for organisms that are still growing.