How to Hope to become a forest
[stems from HOW TO HOPE TO BE]
Film installation
In collaboration with: BioArt Laboratories and Ana Lemnaru (film editing & sound)
Made possible by: CBK Rotterdam
10 workshops with 70 people have made the bio-blocks of a collectively grown sculpture. This film documents its biodegradation throughout the course of one year, at BioArt Laboratories.
Bio-brick by bio-brick, a sculpture has been grown together with people. Household organic waste is used as substrate for a fungus, its mycelium network being started by human hands. For one whole year since its placement on the terrain, the sculpture is being observed degrading.
Teaching people to biocraft with household organic waste is a tool that empowers. HOW TO HOPE TO BE (title & sculpture) stands as symbol for all contributions, no matter how small, for they may all matter into the forming of a circular society.
The follow-up to this social exercise, is to leave the mycelium grown sculpture here, outdoors, to the elements. This is a study in decay, seen through the lens of hope, rather than loss. It is a stage on which sun, rain, wind and other guests, visible and microscopic, are welcome. Becoming is intrinsically part of the identity of the object.
In its entirety, the project invites to imagine alternative ways of making and being alongside nature and how circularity can be brought closer to everyday life.
