MALAVIKA BHATIA

Fungal Responses

Paper Worksheets, Schizophyllum commune mycelium

Art & Permaculture by FICA & Farm8 | March 2025

Worksheets distributed to participants of a workshop on Gathering were offered back to fungi, who were invited to "answer" the questions inscribed upon them. As mycelium colonised the printed text, the paper shifted from being a tool of extraction into a substrate of dialogue.

The work proposes paper as a site where human inquiry and fungal growth intertwine, unsettling the boundary between pedagogy and ecology.