Myco Logic / Invisible Words Invisible Worlds

This publication accompanies the exhibition EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED WITH EVERYTHING ELSE: MYCO LOGIC, 25 Nov ¿ 3 Dec 2017, at the Heritage Courtyard Pavilion, Parramatta.In the main part of the pavilion, the exhibition presented an installation by Elizabeth Day that brought together the artwork made in the MYCO LOGIC community arts and mental health program at Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta North/Westmead. In a closed section of the pavilion Day¿s site-based INVISIBLE WORDS INVISIBLE...
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This publication accompanies the exhibition EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED WITH EVERYTHING ELSE: MYCO LOGIC, 25 Nov ¿ 3 Dec 2017, at the Heritage Courtyard Pavilion, Parramatta.In the main part of the pavilion, the exhibition presented an installation by Elizabeth Day that brought together the artwork made in the MYCO LOGIC community arts and mental health program at Cumberland Hospital, Parramatta North/Westmead. In a closed section of the pavilion Day¿s site-based INVISIBLE WORDS INVISIBLE WORLDS was also presented. The project was curated by Claire Taylor.MYCO LOGIC is an evolving participatory project that draws inspiration from fungi and their underground mycelial root structures as a metaphor for community and connection. The project aimed to foster connections between contributors through creative exchange. In the process of making things together, the project helped build support networks essential in the journey towards recovery. Over five months, Day facilitated a program of regular hands-on workshops demonstrating how anything can be used to `draw¿ in three-dimensions. Sessions were based around engagement, visual story-telling and skills sharing. The hand-crafted fungi made by participants in the hospital community arts program were installed on a raft of paper, string and raffia mycelia bringing them together in a collective image.Elizabeth Day's INVISIBLE WORDS INVISIBLE WORLDS was made in response to the aggregation of institutions in Parramatta. The installation extends Day's ongoing UNRAVELLING OF FORM series, made from unravelled wool, with new pieces that incorporate texts and a series of images developed with the University of Newcastle's Centre for Organic Physics. These transparencies are based on altered electron microscopy images of carbon nanotubes that have been artificially grown. The texts that appear in these works are an ethical commentary on transgenerational trauma and are based on Day's experience as a prison educator over the last 25 years. Displayed in the Heritage Courtyard Pavilion on a platform overhanging the archaeological remains of the Parramatta¿s Colonial Hospital in the heart of Parramatta's Justice Precinct, these works speak to contemporary and historic contexts of incarceration and institutional care.