Myco-Lective Resources and Links
Artists
Feral Practice curated and facilitated the programme. Fiona MacDonald works with more-and-other-than-human beings as Feral Practice to create art projects and interdisciplinary events that develop ethical and imaginative connection across species boundaries. Their research draws on artistic, scientific and subjective knowledge practices to explore diverse aesthetics and create suggestive spaces of not knowing nature.
Ama Josephine Budge co-curated and co-lead the intensive sessions that opened the programme. Ama is a Speculative Writer, Artist, Curator and Pleasure Activist whose praxis navigates intimate explorations of race, art, ecology and feminism, working to activate movements that catalyse human rights, environmental evolutions and troublesomely queered identities...
Angela Chan is an artist, creative climate change communicator and independently runs the curatorial project Worm: art + ecology. Her research interests in climate change span decolonial climate and social justice, geography and contemporary sinophone science fiction. Angela’s artistic practice currently explores moss as remedial companions through touch, (environmental) sensing and coordination.
Joseph Morgan Schofield distils a queer poetics of self(s), place and time from the shards of myth and memory. Their performance works are acts of mythopoesis, where processes of queer ritual action function as a technology of divination, visioning other ways of being in other possible worlds. They are the facilitator of F U T U R E R I T U A L, a research and performance project considering the use, place and function of ritual in contemporary queer and performance cultures, and an associate artist of ]performance s p a c e[.
Laurèl Hadleigh is a London-born artist experimenting primarily with documentary based film and organic materials. She is nterested in what lies between journalist and storyteller. Through her practice she investigates the warped layers of truth within the socio-political climate, exploring systems and languages that centre dynamic interconnection.
Linda Persson is a Swedish artist living and working between Sweden and the United Kingdom. Her work often focuses on questions of that which is historically repressed, about to disappear, or maybe already extinct, such as certain languages or technologies.
Sam Hodge is an artist investigating our entanglement with materials. She explores how we interact with and transform materials from our environment and how the environment changes us and the things we have made. For example, she finds and makes materials into paint, observing how the paint acts and changes over time, or collects human-made objects that have been weathered and transformed by environmental processes, further transforming these into prints.
Sonia E Barrett looks at the objectification of animals people and plants through sculptural performances and articulations. In doing this she hopes to encourage whole earth solutions as opposed to fractional ones.
Listening
Mycorrhizal Meditation
15 minute meditation by Feral Practice available on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/user-136373073/mycorrhizal-meditation
From Tree to Shining Tree
Radiolab podcast – A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour.
https://wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-tree-to-shining-tree
Cultures of Energy 133 - Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
Cultures of Energy: The Energy Humanities Podcast
http://culturesofenergy.com/133-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa
The Waters That Move Within Me
Ama Josephine Budge (2019)
This was a 3-part sound installation at Casco Art Institute in Utrecht. You can listen to the “story” and view the exhibition images via this link. There are also images from the artist presentation/accountability ritual Ama performed at the exhibition opening last summer.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/117_9Zl1a1lUnUaZpTQqPyF-Rv6IWMuTX
Making Kin
Interview with Donna Haraway
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-kin-an-interview-with-donna-haraway/
Watching
Pumzi by Wanuri Kahiu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlR7l_B86Fc&feature=youtu.be
Fantastic Fungi by Paul Stamets
http://watch.fantasticfungi.com/
Richard Powers and Monica Gagliano Talk
Author Richard Powers (The Overstory) and evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano (University of Sydney and ICE@Dartmouth Fellow, author of Thus Spoke the Plant) discuss the nature of intelligence, plant behaviour, and our place within Nature. Moderated by ICE@Dartmouth Director Mercelo Gleiser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-2A8EOHo08
Monique Simmons Talk
Monique Simmons, Deputy Director of Science at Kew Gardens, talking at Phytology
https://vimeo/105819183
Online Talk: Emergent Strategies for Environmental Justice
adrienne maree brown
https://youtu.be/PUQWo33geYk
AFRONAUTS
Written and directed by Nuotama Bodomo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3pu5jXWHU&feature=youtu.be
Reading
Thus Spoke the Plant
Monica Gagliano (2018) Berkeley USA: North Atlantic Books
Braiding Sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions
Mycelium Running: how mushrooms can help save the world
Paul Stamets (2005) Berkeley USA: 10 Speed Press
The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015) USA/UK Princeton University Press
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben (2016) London: Greystone Books
Poetry is not a Luxury
Audre Lorde, 1985
https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/files/2020/07/poetry-is-not-a-luxury-audre-lorde.pdf
Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986
https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/files/2020/07/LeGuin.pdf
Environmentalism’s Racist History
Jedediah Purdy, The New Yorker, August 2015
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history
Streams and Mountains
Nick Wolven, Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2017
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolven_05_17/
What the Sands Remember
Vanessa Agard-Jones, GLO: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2012
https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/ceh/misc/Agard-Jones%20-%20What%20the%20sands%20remember.pdf
Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
María Puig de la Bellacasa (2017) Minnesota USA: University of Minnesota Press
Beneath Yaba’s Garden
Ama Josephine Budge, Feminist Review, 2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0141778920911357
After Humanity: Science Fiction after Extinction in Kurt Vonnegut and Clifford D. Simak
Gerry Canavan, Paradoxa, Vol. 28, 2016
https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/files/2020/08/Canavan-After-Extinction.pdf
The Zambian “Afronaut” Who Wanted to Join the Space Race
Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-zambian-afronaut-who-wanted-to-join-the-space-race
‘The Necessity of Tomorrows’, Starboard Wine
Samuel R. Delaney (1984) Dragon Press: New York,
https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/files/2020/09/delany-tomorrows.pdf
Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm
Isabella Tree 2019
Unthinking Mastery: dehumanism and decolonial entanglements
Julietta Singh 2018, Duke University Press
Resources / Partners
Chisenhale Studios
Chisenhale Studios, who generously support this programme provide secure affordable workspace to both established and emerging visual artists who are exhibiting, performing and teaching nationally and internationally.
https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/
Roving Microscope
The Roving Microscope is a community microscope club in Bethnal Green exploring human/soil ecologies. Hari Byles, Melissa Thompson and Ellie Doney bought a microscope and are making it available to people for looking at their environment. We are from an art/design/anthropology/social practice background so are amateur microscopists.
https://www.bigcompostexperiment.org.uk/blog/the-roving-microscope
Phytology
An artist and community led project exploring The environmental and social complexities of the urban landscape. In Bethnal Green Nature Reserve.
https://phytology.org.uk/
South London Botanical Institute
They have a beautiful botanical garden, library and herbarium in Tulse Hill, and they run a wide range of courses, workshops, school visits and events for all ages.
https://www.slbi.org.uk
Willowbrook Farm
The first Halal & Tayib farm in the UK, practicing regenerative farming, and offering camping, guided tours, volunteering and workshops.
https://www.willowbrookfarm.co.uk/
