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“Infinity Burial” – Body Eating Mushroom Death Suit

Jae Rhim Lee hat auf der diesjährigen TED Global Konferenz einen bemerkenswerte Vortrag über ihr aktuelles “Infinity Burial Project” gehalten, für das sie derzeit einen Pilz trainiert der später Leichen umweltschützend in sogenannten Infinity Body Suits (im Bild zu sehen) zersetzen lassen soll. Auf New Scientist gibt es ein kurzes dafür aber gut verständliches Interview mit ihr zu lesen.

The Infinity Mushroom (in progress) will be a unique strain(s) of fungi that will be trained to decompose bodies and remediate the industrial toxins in bodies. Using mycological tissue culture and growing techniques, Jae Rhim Lee is training fungi to consume her own body tissue and excretions–skin, hair, nails, blood, bone, fat, tears, urine, feces, and sweat. The fungi have been chosen for their potential to utilize the nutrients in human tissue and to remediate industrial toxins in soil. Once realized, the Infinity Mushroom will be applied to the other components of the project.

The first prototype of the Infinity Burial Suit is a body suit embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores. The embroidery pattern resembles the dendritic growth of mushroom mycelium. The Suit is accompanied by an Alternative Embalming Fluid, a liquid spore slurry, and Decompiculture Makeup, a two-part makeup consisting of a mixture of dry mineral makeup and dried mushroom spores and a separate liquid culture medium. Combining the two parts and applying them to the body activates the mushroom spores to develop and grow.

Den TED Talk reiche ich selbstverständlich nach. via boingboing