LACTISM: Mycoremediation
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LAKTISMUS: Mykoremediace / LACTISM: Mycoremediation Instalace: socha zo živých hub, kresba myceliami na papíře, sledovací systém Projekt LAKTISMUS: Mykoremediace (z řeckého mycos = houba Dílo vzniklo ve spolupráci s umělcem Jakubem Rajnochem. The work was created in collaboration with the artist Jakub Rajnoch.
Dílo bylo vystaveno na výstavě: Výstavvu uskutečnila Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého Citace: Filčák, Richard. “Environmental Justice in the Slovak Republic: The Case of the Roma Ethnic Minority.” PhD. thes., Central European University, 2007. LACTISM: Mycoremediation living fungal sculpture, drawing of mycelium on paper, surveillance system The project LACTISM: Mycoremediation (from the Greek mycos = fungus, and the Latin remedium = restoring balance) focuses on the issue of environmental injustice that occurs in the context of social exclusion policies (not only) in our region of Central Europe. The work addresses the practice common in many places in Slovakia of displacing inconvenient Romani inhabitants and municipal waste beyond city limits. The authors draw on research carried out by an interdisciplinary team under the auspices of the Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2022, which documents the toxic effects of this practice on the local ecosys-tem, inter-ethnic social ties, and the lives of marginalised residents. The living actors of the installation are mycelia (fungal filaments), which will slowly “feed on” the exhibited objects over the course of the exhibition. The texts on the wall describing environmental devastation and social anomie will gradually become illegible, and the red dots on the map of Slovakia marking the polluted villages populated by Roma will slowly disappear as well. In the context of twenty-first-century Europe these are absurdly painful facts that unfortunately remain ignored by majority society (see the attached text for details) while evoking a sense of hopelessness in others. Therefore, in the exhibition Hay, Straw, Dump, Tamara Moyzes and Shlomi Yaffe symbolically rem-edy this injustice through the uncontrollable growth of mycelia, a kind of biological network that combats inequality and ethnic segregation.ignored by majority society (see the attached text for details) while evoking a sense of hopelessness in others. Therefore, in the exhibition Hay, Straw, Dump, Tamara Moyzes and Shlomi Yaffe symbolically rem-edy this injustice through the uncontrollable growth of mycelia, a kind of biological network that combats inequality and ethnic segregation. —The work was created in collaboration with artist Jakub Rajnoch. Partners: Kampus Hybernská, Kavárna Hlína, Farma Hlína The work was exhibited at the exhibition: The construction was carried out by the Jindřich Chalupecký Company Source: Filčák, Richard. Environmental Justice in the Slovak Republic: The Case of the Roma Ethnic Minority. PhD. thes., Central European University, 2007.
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