We shall by morning inherit the Earth

On Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp’s The Creeping Garden. For e-flux Film’s programme, Uncomputables: On Cybernetics and Alien Intelligences programmed by Agnieszka Kurant, February 2024.
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This is a text about hindsight, fish, and returning.

Reaching back through old notes, I come across an aborted text that I had once begun writing with no particular aim in mind. I had called it, “I want to be the mushroom that kills you.” In it, I find some kind of weird, enraged erotic hallucination, maybe the plot of a badly-filmed revenge thriller—ecology as slithering body horror: the stuff of another life.

How much of that other life still squirms its way into this one?, I wonder, setting down to share reflections on Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp’s 2014 documentary, The Creeping Garden, a feature-length enquiry into the nature of slime mould and the creative and philosophical ramifications of its particular form of intelligence. Read more →