Mycelial Methodologies: How to think with fungi

Mycelial Methodologies: How to think with fungi

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This speculative workshop looks at fungi and lichen as networked and collaborative entities with a lot to teach humans about trans-species collaborations, non-human perspectives, radical collectivity and alternate notions of time: in other words, ecological modes of living. We take off from recent books published at the nexus of art and philosophy: Let's become fungal!: mycelium teachings and the arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, and The Lichen Museum, by A. Laurie Palmer. We hope to collectively engage with concepts from the books and tease out their social, artistic and environmental applications.

Tessa Laird is a writer, artist and lecturer in art theory living on Wurundjeri Country. She has written a book on colour and a book on bats and is currently writing a book about animal aesthetics in experimental film. Andrew Goodman is an artist, writer, gardener and lecturer in art and art theory, living on DjaDja Wurrung Country who has exhibited their "mushroom computer" in Melbourne and Sydney and is planning to take it to Sao Paulo soon...