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What does a sculpture that pulses, oozes, gushes, and melts look like? Needless to say, what a work is made of influences the sort of impression we have of it. A material-driven process is often a labyrinthian maze — a rabbit hole to burrow down into. Nabilah Nordin’s works can be described as a smorgasbord for the senses. Her sculptures are luscious landscapes, gloopy messes, and spacious caverns all at once. We wrap up the first season of Mushroomed with a conversation with Nabilah Nordin. We speak to Nabilah about her approach to experimentation and failure, and the place of language within her practice.

A question that has surfaced prominently is how will we live alongside or in communion with our non-human counterparts? This relationship is often fraught and complicated, and is often centered around human perspectives. There might still be room yet to move past this —to think like trees, grow like bacteria, and move like fungi. All this makes Thesupersystem’s research project, Alam Se—Kita, incredibly prescient. For this episode, we speak to Thesupersystem about posthumanism and the different turns the project has taken thus far.

A Singaporean band with a celebrated history of their own, Electrico talks with us about their return in a new decade.

Flowers and plants have always served as an extension of language and a tool for communication. Susanna Tan is a seasoned florist and artist. Having experienced the healing and communicative power of botanical elements first hand, Susanna centres her practice around them — both materially and conceptually. For this episode, Object Lessons Space speaks to Susanna about the language of flora and fauna, and how she continues to speak through and with them.

From Haitian revolutionaries to an unfiltered look at animal consciousness, this month at Asian Film Archive presents the diverse and singular visions from around the world with Singular Screens. The programme, curated by AFA for the forthcoming Singapore International Festival of Arts, is fleshed out by Viknesh and Kay Wee in this episode.

This episode of Mushroomed deals with the unique study of psychogeography.

Our understanding of physical space is often mediated through maps. Mapmaking and cartography are often seen as precise sciences today, yet their methodologies have historically favoured particular knowledge systems over others. But what are the alternatives? This episode unravels the thought process behind the newest issue on Object Lessons Space.