Jae Rhim Lee (Artist/Innovator)

Artist Jae Rhim Lee re-imagines the relationships between the body and the world.

Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist and mushroom lover. In her early work, as a grad student at MIT, she built systems that reworked basic human processes: sleeping (check out her it-just-might-work vertical bed from 2004), urinating and eating (and the relationship between the two).

Now she's working on a compelling new plan for the final human process: decomposition.

Her Infinity Burial Project explores the choices we face after death, and how our choices reflect our denial or acceptance of death’s physical implications. She's been developing a new strain of fungus, the Infinity Mushroom, that feeds on and remediates the industrial toxins we store in our bodies and convert our unused bodies efficiently into nutrients.

Her Infinity Burial System converts corpses into clean compost. She's in residence at the MAK Center in Los Angeles through September, working on this project. And if this vision of life after death appeals to you, sign up to become a Decompinaut yourself.

Related Links:
zonezerozerostudio.com
infinityburialproject.com
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