MAGIC STEVEN + MAKIKO YAMAMOTO (AU/JP) will stage a fraught cooking show, with mushrooms. AUTUMN ROYAL + ELA STILES will explore the poetics of spores and how the pervasiveness of mould outstrips our ability to control it. TYSON CAMPBELL (NZ) + BELLA WARU (NZ) will dance and rap about systems ecological and political. YING-LI HOOI + TARQUIN MANEK will unearth subterranean narratives.

Mushrooms and mould are literal signifiers of the presence of hidden realities. Their fleshy, temporal appearances provide evidence of concealed systems of constant potentiality in the material strata of our world. Sometimes poison and sometimes cure, they are less an object than they are a process.

This event is one branch of the WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS? exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub. Plants know worlds, they contain worlds and they make worlds.