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8 August 2024, 4:00PM
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How to Feed your Plastomach

Elizabeth Demaray

Pictured here is a plastomach, a term coined by the artist Elizabeth Demaray that merges the term plastic and stomach. A plastomach is a living sculpture that eats plastic by virtue of white rot fungi. Come see the plastomach at Zone2Source as part of the installation Cookbook for When the Sun Goes Out.

Have you ever felt sad about disposing of plastic when it may end up in landfill? Do you worry that your plastic debris may become micro particles in the ocean? If so, please bring a plastic object to Zone2Source before August 8th to feed to the plastomach. Please donate your plastic in the crate outside of the Zone2Source office in the Rietveldhuis, or at our exhibition space Het Glazen Huis.

Also, if you would like to learn how to feed plastic to fungi or how to make your own plastomach, you are welcome to attend How to Feed Your Plastomach a live workshop with Elizabeth Demaray at 4:00pm on August 8th. This workshop can be attended in person or online via Instagram Live. At the workshop Demaray will be sourcing plastic form the Zone2Source collection site and from workshop participants directly to feed the plastomach that will be on display as part of Cookbook for When the Sun Goes Out. The workshop will also cover the forms of plastic that can be fed to fungi, best practices for preparing your plastic and the ways that plastic fed fungi can be utilised as a material.