ELAINE GAN + ANNA TSING

FUNGAL TIME IN THE SATOYAMA FOREST, 2013

Two-channel video installation offers a partial view of what Karen Barad calls "intra-action". Here, walking becomes a series of temporal patternings that are synchronized between a forester's movements above ground and fungal growth underground. The photograph in the background shows satoyama, the idealized peasant landscape of central Japan, a living assemblage of woodlands, gardens, rice fields, water channels, and village paths.

This installation begins to describe satoyama as a manifold of times, a recursive patch that both shapes and emerges from durational yet indeterminate encounters between many species.

animation and video editing: Natalie McKeever

Exhibited at Intra-Action: Multispecies Becomings in the Anthropocene, University of Sydney, Curated by Madeleine Boyd and Eben Kirksey

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