Extravagant: Wander Outside or Beyond
December 2022
“Extravagant -wander outside or beyond '' focuses on the symbiogenesis between non-human and human beings. And as an experimental designer I question how to use design methods to explore the ideas around Chthulucence. I am Inspired by Merlin Sheldrake’s book, Entangle Life, to involve scientific knowledge into my practice work. In this project, I am investigating the hypha path in Richmond Park and question in a digital culture background, how technology and the internet are shaping the way that we interact as humans?
Extravagant: Virtual Walking
Extravagant: Virtual Walking is a part of research, using drawing and walking methods to understand nonhuman beings and our relationship to nature.
13/12/2021
Extravagant: Scalability of the Landscape
Extravagant: Scalability of the Landscape is a part of research which investigates how capitalism is shaping nature. Analysis the scalability of the landscape and how it is being remade through human disturbance.
20/12/2021
Extravagant: Nature & Object
Extravagant: Nature & Object is another part of research which analysis how nature becomes an object to suit a particular subjective interest. As Meckenzie Wark confirmed that, “Liberating nature from its representation is the liberation of knowledge from education, which is to say, from property. To hacker, nature is another name for the virtual” (Wark, 1986).
0/12/2021
Extravagant: Wander Outside or Beyond
Extravagant: Wander Outside or Beyond is a collective map of my walking journey in Richmond Park, a portrait of times through autumn to the winter. Be inspired with the book Entangled Life, a series of scientific knowledge of the fungi. I see the walking line as a mycelium, and it also illustrates the hypha growth. Myself is the growing tip and the trail is the body of the hypha. The mycelium builds the map which includes different experiments when I was wandering outside or beyond in the Richmond Park, such as the Extravagant: Virtual Walking, Scalability of the Landscape and Nature & Object. The purpose of this map is to provide some useful resources and values for people who also investigate the topic around Chthulucence. Through this project, I also hope the audience can have a different perspective to engage with the park which as the fungi’s flexible networks and reveal how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet.
Site: Richmond Park