Made Up – Public Realm

Writing by Shaun Caton surrounded by images of Shaun Caton's analogue montages "Night Life 11" (2024) and "Night Life 30" (2024).

Appears in COMPOST: Issue 2 Accidents and Emergencies

Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles. This theoretical perspective repositions queer sexualities in the context of the original meaning of the term ‘queer’, which is ‘rot’ – and which stands for a fungi-induced process of decomposition. With this, Fungi Media explores the foundational importance of rot for both breaking down and sustaining bodies, relationships and life as such.
The project was developed in a squatted sewage space in London, adopted by the author as a laboratory for mutant performance. The space hosts Chronic Illness events, where Internet-inspired body artists enter an environment populated with fungi. The interventions of human performers are incorporated into the rotten physiology of the space, which itself becomes a live entity. This book involves those events in the analysis of connections between media technologies and primal life processes. It also offers strategies for urban dwelling which transcend normative family life.

Read more at Open Humanities Press– Fungi Media

An introduction by Alisa Oleva to her film Walking Home, which was screened as part of LADA Screens in February 2021.

Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 33, Issue 3 (2023)

On Scent in Theatre Audience Research : Sensory Mining and Olfactory Archives, Freya Verlander

This article uses netnographic research methods, as a form of olfactory sensory mining, to investigate the smell-based experiences of audience members at Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (2011).

shado Issue 4 : Youth

Article ‘Black Radical Tradition : Centring Abolition Ecology in the Climate Climate Justice Movement’  by Idman Abdurahaman.

Article in Consented Issue 9 : Environment

Article from Consented Issue 9 : Environment

Mishandled Archive offers a way of imagining, creating and disseminating an archive.

A special edition of Substanz featuring work from Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon 2020.

In German, Spanish and English.

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

Issue No 9 of Substanz featuring work from Performance Oper-Air St.Gallen 2018.

Text in German and English.

Kindly Donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.

A documentation of the events and survey of the work of more than 150 performance artists and contributors from France, Ghana, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States presented over the years in the festival performance series Neu-Oerlikon (Zurich).

In German and English

Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.