Who Ate My Seat?

Who Ate My Seat? tells the story of a set of mycelium stools. These are placed in different locations in Victoria, Australia, and New York, USA. Stools are photographed on a weekly basis, documenting their changes. For example, a stool installed in Apollo Bay has been knocked over by a nosy creature. When it rains, it turns brown. When it dries, it turns back to white again. A wallaby tasted its edge one day. Depending upon each stool's surrounding environment, it may exhibit different changes through the winter in Australia and summer in the USA. Documentation of these changes will be presented on this site and at littlewonder.design alongside observational notes. Through October, the site will be updated regularly with the changes. We do not know what will happen to them; thus, it is be an experimental process.

Craft Contemporary is an annual festival facilitated by Craft Victoria, a Melbourne-based organization dedicated to platforming progressive practitioners of craft and design worldwide. The festival is a ‘satellite program,’ meaning there is no single festival space––rather, a collection of spaces around the globe in which members of the festival present their work.

Once a mold is built, laminated (so that the mycelium does not eat through the cardboard), and fitted to the actual Muji Stool, we fill the negative space with mycelium spores and a substrate which the mycelium consumes to grow into a solid mycelium volume. We used the spores and substrate included in Back to the Roots’ Organic Mushroom Grow Kit for oyster mushrooms, and simply transported the contents of about three full packages into each mold.