Mimosa Echard - Sporal
Paris, France, 2022
Paris, France, 2022
I assisted Mimosa Echard with character and world creation for Sporal, a videogame and exhibition project presented at the Palais de Tokyo, March - September 2022.
‘ The exhibition Sporal represents a new instalment in the research project that Mimosa Echard began in 2019 whilst a resident at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), which centres on the idea that myxomycetes, unicellular organisms that are at the intersection of the animal, plant and fungi kingdoms, may be endowed with a form of memory. It is structured around the first video game by the artist, created in collaboration with developer Andréa Sardin and artist Aodhan Madden. The game invites visitors to explore the cavities of an organism in a perpetual state of transformation, inspired by the life cycle of the myxomycete. A character with an ambiguous identity makes their way through an ambiguous, dreamlike universe evolving with each encounter and in reaction to the mutating materials that surround them. With each enigma solved and each exchange of fluidst, the character unlocks ‘sexual types’ like those released by myxomycetes, which can deploy up to 720 different kinds.’
- Palais de Tokyo
Mimosa Echard is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
Mimosa Echard - Sporal
Paris, France, 2022
Paris, France, 2022
I assisted Mimosa Echard with character and world creation for Sporal, a videogame and exhibition project presented at the Palais de Tokyo, March - September 2022.
‘ The exhibition Sporal represents a new instalment in the research project that Mimosa Echard began in 2019 whilst a resident at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), which centres on the idea that myxomycetes, unicellular organisms that are at the intersection of the animal, plant and fungi kingdoms, may be endowed with a form of memory. It is structured around the first video game by the artist, created in collaboration with developer Andréa Sardin and artist Aodhan Madden. The game invites visitors to explore the cavities of an organism in a perpetual state of transformation, inspired by the life cycle of the myxomycete. A character with an ambiguous identity makes their way through an ambiguous, dreamlike universe evolving with each encounter and in reaction to the mutating materials that surround them. With each enigma solved and each exchange of fluidst, the character unlocks ‘sexual types’ like those released by myxomycetes, which can deploy up to 720 different kinds.’
- Palais de Tokyo
Mimosa Echard is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022
