UN AGUJERO EN MI JARDÍN
Can we slip through a hole and walk under the garden?
Un agujero en mi jardín
An experimental installation to think of all the processes and exchanges that take place underground, a natural laboratory beyond human control. To enter the space is to wander in that fragility, a space of tissues in process, a place to be aware of the fragility of the environment we inhabit and of which we are a part.
Proposal
To shed our human skin and cross the room through a tunnel made of mycelium skin. The mycelium weaves a non-visible network, underneath the garden, generating symbiotic relationships between fungi, trees, plants, insects, bacteria ..... The installation proposes a material, light and sound experience made of invisible processes, of growths and transformations... The mycelium skin sounds when it dries, contracts, when it receives water, begins to expand again,a delicate but immense network that connects life in natural ecosystems.
Inspired by
The aerial mycelium develops in growth patterns reminiscent of branches and roots, extending above the substrate it inhabits. It forms a soft, light, and fragile tissue—delicate yet dynamic. To enter this space is to step into that fragility: a living architecture of organic networks in flux. It is a place to witness matter in transformation, to feel the subtle tensions of a system always becoming. Here, one is reminded of the fragile environments we dwell in—and the delicate balance we are part of.
The installation integrates a sound composition with field recordings captured with geophones in the substratum of the Amsterdamse Bos, an artificial forest on the outskirts of Amsterdam. This subacoustic world emerges in the room through the vibration of the floor and the oculus, turning the piece into a listening space where sound invites to perceive with the whole body what normally remains out of hearing
Credits
Project by: Raquel Buj and Elena Rocabert
Sound artist: Luis lecea
Project management: Istituto Europeo di Design, IED Madrid
Developed in the context of: Madrid Design Fest, MDF at Institución Libre de enseñanza, ILE
Production team: Elena Rocabert and Raquel Buj; Materials Experimentation students of the Istituto Europeo di Design, IED Madrid: Macarena de Jesús Alfaro Vergara, Camila Escurra, Emma Guillem Colls, Ana Herrán Bocanegra, Paola Andrea López Pastrana, Sara Mateos Vara, Rafael Perelmuter, Ana Schiavi and Ana Cristina Turriza Galván.
Biomaterial consulting: María Mallo
Photos: Asier Rua and Diego Navas