The Mushroom Collector
Jason Fulford
The Soon Institute
Hardcover
192 pages
240 x 310 mm
2010
ISBN 9789081058421
The Mushroom Collection is an expanding exhibition and workshop operated by Jason Fulford and The Soon Institute. The project pops its head out briefly, and then decomposes. The collection first appeared in Amsterdam in late 2010. Inside, hidden among the furniture, were objects, prints and books related to Fulford’s book The Mushroom Collector. Performances and lectures were presented in the evenings by Corin Hewitt, Ted Fair, Hernán Díaz, Sam de Groot, Guy Edmonds, Lee Ellickson, Maarten Hepp, Serge Onnen, Aaron Schuman, Rein Jelle Terpstra, Samuel Vriezen and Pietro Corraini. Next, the collection appeared for an afternoon in New York City. In the basement of Dexter Sinister, objects were converted into light. The third installment took place over two days in Los Angeles. Visitors hunted down objects from the collection, scattered among the new spring releases from ARTBOOK. The collection was on view at the Minneapolis Insitute of Arts from October 2011 to April 2012, and then made a 4-hour appearance in San Francisco at the Kadist Foundation.
About the Artist
Jason Fulford (born 1973) is an American photographer, publisher and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York City. Fulford is co-founder of J&L Books, where he is publisher, editor and book designer. He works as a photographer and has lectured at various universities.
About the Publisher
Lorenzo De Rita considers himself to be a poet held in captivity by the advertisement industry for years. After a fierce struggle with the conservative advertisement standards, De Rita set himself free, and started The Soon Institute. A playground, a mental space, focused on experimenting new models of thinking and the development of what he calls “prototypes for communication”. Seemingly unrestrained by practical or commercial limitations, The Soon Institute developed some 57 prototypes in just three years. The Soon Institute publishes a variety of daring books that challenge the readers in really reading the book in any sense.
