The Bamboonaut clusters is a reimagined graphic novel.
A series of thirty two drawings that follows a bamboo entity and allies (both dead, alive and somewhere in-between) researching and manifesting tools from ecological fictions, sequential art history, architectural residue, speculative design, mushroom spores and experimental cinema all in the hopes of rewilding the planet. Each drawing is a proposed cover for a comic book series that only exists in one’s imagination.
Embedded collaboration 1:
Within the pages we also see bamboonauts guest artists visiting us from China, Italy, Finland and Czechia. Each of the shared projects explore electronic interspecies communication and environmental relationships.
Embedded collaboration 2:
Mobile app saturated images documenting Monika Czyzyk’s docufictional film project, I want to build a rocket, from its origins in China through its most recent scenes created in Finland.
Launched on the occasion of Monika Czyzyk’s
Bamboocene: Memories of Synchronicity
2020 exhibition at Myyamala 2 gallery, Helsinki, Finland