Myc -Doh


2022 - Present
Myc-Doh has been developed in collaboration with Lera Neimackl

Lera and Sasha covering cardboard steps with living dough. Photo by Peter McCain, 2023

Myc-Doh is a versatile, living biomaterial made from sawdust, mycelium, paper pulp, clay, and a gelling agent. Developed by artists Sasha Fishman and Lera Niemackl, who integrate and specialize in bioplastics and mycology. This dough is designed to grow and evolve beyond its initial form. It can be hand-sculpted, applied to an armature, pinched, or shaped into slabs and coils. The inclusion of cellulose in the dough provides food for the mycelium, allowing the entire structure to transform as the mycelium colonizes it. Over time, the dough changes in color and texture, while starting as a white, fluffy, mat and evolving into a vibrant, mottled landscape, of red, purple, orange, and brown shades. Within two weeks, it begins to sprout mushrooms.

Mycelium Dough’s tactile engagement and ongoing transformation question where agency begins and ends between the maker and the mycelium body. The material’s entropic evolution challenges our expectations of finite and stable matter, inviting reconsideration of the boundaries between living and non-living objects.


Myc-Doh Workshops
2023 - Mycelium Dough Workshop at Columbia University
2024 - Mycelium Dough Workshop at Murmurs, Los Angeles
2025 - Mycelium Dough Workshop at Area 405, Baltimore



Works grown with Myc-Doh have been shown in: 
Implosion Paradigm Incoming, Below Grand, 2023
Resurrectura, Murmurs, 2024-25





Sometimes I’m Edible
2023
Reishi mycelium, firewood, rye, wood, cardboard, egg yolk tanned salmon skin, chitosan
93” x 21” x 21” 







Mycelium Dough sculptures left out to dry ontop of a plexi innoculation tank housing fruiting mycelium spawn bags




Mycelium Dough Workshops


In this workshop we made sculptures with unique iterations of Sasha & Lera’s base formula of Mycelium Dough. This material can’t be treated like ceramics, but is a sculptable substance that will myceliate (become enmeshed with mycelium, the roots of mushrooms) and eventually fruit reishi mushrooms. Attendees learned about mycelium as a fungi and a collaborator, as attendees took home living sculptures they made during the workshop to care for and grow. 




This project has been supported by donors on Experiment
If you are interested in hosting us for a Mycelium Dough workshop, please reach out!








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