Biennial
Liverpool Biennial 2018. Beautiful World, Where Are You?
14 Jul 2018 – 28 Oct 2018
Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Mae-ling Lokko. Hack the Root
14 Jul 2018 – 28 Oct 2018
Address
- 21 Mann Island
- Liverpool Waterfront
- Liverpool
England - L3 1BP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Liverpool ONE Bus Station – 8 minute walk. For full details about local bus and train services please visit merseytravel.gov.uk
- Liverpool Lime Street – 20 minute walk; Liverpool James Street (Wirral Line) – 2 minute walk; Moorfields (Wirral Line and Northern Line) – 5 minute walk
Event map
About
Hack the Root is a newly commissioned installation by Mae-ling Lokko, consisting of an architectural structure grown from agrowaste-fed mycelium (mushroom) panels and an accompanying exhibition. Drawing on historical and contemporary material practices, Hack the Root’s life cycle proposes an alternative to the notion of the root – a system that displaces all around it, consuming its surrounding resources to grow and expand. Through a series of Grow-It-Yourself workshops, modular biomaterial building panels made from a fungus developed by Ecovative have been grown in large-scale grow chambers in the gallery and installed in the exhibition’s entrance tunnel. Visitors can find out more about the process in an accompanying film exploring the prototyping of these unique tiles, as well as understand the project’s proposition for generative upcycling economies.
Mae-ling Lokko is commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and RIBA North
