2.30 min. performance film 
sewn Kombucha, Shiitake, hometrainer, iron wire, plastic bags  

Kombucha, a symbiosis of yeast and bacteria, is growing in a glass. The skin, it produces has to be taken of to keep the mushroom alive and is normally thrown away, as people raise Kombucha to drink the fermented fluid. It is said to be first used as medicine in Korea around 200 B.C.

Coincidentally my first piece on Kombucha was also finished in Korea while I was on quarantäne. What was meant to be a project of human collaboration, became a video work and a dialog between me and my Kombucha. As I could only use material already in the apartment, I dried the leftover  Skins and sewed them together to shelter myself.

Breaking down the artistic concept of performance to a general conception of performance as efficiency, human exercise on a home trainer produces sweat and nourishes the fungus. A cover sewn from Kombuca stretches around the rower and forms the breeding ground for the fungus and thus the skin-like interface between fungus and human.