INTERSPECIES ARCHAEOLOGY

serial no: IA-ΣK-01
material: mycelium composite
description: bio-fabricated relic

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.