Kindness Foragers

Angelina Kumar

This installation is on show at BAK Basecamp

This installation approaches mycelium—the underground network of fungal threads that connects plants and trees—not as biological spectacle, but as a model for relational technics.A sensor-driven floor projection responds to the movement of visitors and translates their shifting positions into expanding and interweaving digital hyphae—the fungal filaments that make up mycelium. As bodies move, patterns reorganize—echoing the subterranean fungal networks that sustain forest ecologies through exchange and reciprocity.

Participants are invited to contribute gestures and stories of kindness, inscribing them onto hyphae-like textile strands that accumulate into a growing sculptural formation. The work unfolds as an ecology of response: action generates pattern; attention alters structure.

Rather than isolating fungi as object of study, the installation adopts mycelium as method. Networked growth, mutual support and distributed intelligence become operative principles. Kindness Foragers is is a sensing interface—revealing relations that are already present. Care appears not as sentiment, but as infrastructure: unseen, entangled and necessary for collective survival.

Angelina Kumar

― Artist

Angelina Kumar is an artist, researcher, and educator from India whose practice explores the intersections of ecology, community, and care. Working across disciplines, she engages with themes of the commons, sustainability, and regeneration through participatory and site-specific projects. Her work often invites collaboration, using artistic processes to spark dialogue about how people relate to each other and to the environments they inhabit. By blending research with playful experimentation, Kumar creates spaces where ecological ideas can be experienced emotionally as well as intellectually.

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