Upgrade of a Fungus in Contemporary Art: From Media to Co-Author

Abstract

The article examines the problem of the author’s potential of nonhuman agents in biological art. In the context of critical posthumanism and new ontologies, their role in the process of creating a work is being revised. Based on the example of bio-art projects, it is concluded that a performative work changes the status of a biological organism, from a medium it becomes a co-author of the artist.