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Myco-Lective is a programme for artists engaging with ecological thinking, climate change, and multispecies futures. It takes its inspiration from human and non-human models of education, collective action, care, reciprocal networking, and mutual aid, including the mycorrhizal networks of the forest, where plants share nourishment and knowledge via the under-soil web of fungal mycelium.


Starting in Spring 2020, Myco-Lective was reshaped around the impact of Covid-19 on all our lives. Participants met together on Zoom. Some of us have still yet to meet in in real life. For what was conceived as a holistic, embodied project, this was… tricky. But despite the challenges, and the inevitable online-weariness of us all, Myco-Lective nurtured a space for mutual support, and expanded the situated, critical and creative thinking of participants.


Rather than a programme of shiny public outcomes, then, this website invites you into the nurturing, explorative tone of our group. Roam around the ‘garden’ and you will find a selection of our intertwined thoughts and acts, emerging as poetry, speculative fiction, mycorrhizal meditation, earthly performance, forest photography, collective conversation, ink making, and more.

Nuts n Bolts

Myco-Lective was developed and facilitated by Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald+) in association with Chisenhale Studios. Fiona brought her experience in artist development, posthumanist thought, practices of attention and multispecies aesthetics. The lead artist was speculative writer and researcher Ama Josephine Budge, who brought her expertise in queer identity, speculative fictioning and climate colonialism, and co-held the initial sessions with great warmth and care. After the first few sessions, all the participants  - Joseph Morgan Schofield, Sonia Barrett, Angela Chan, Linda Persson, Laurèl Hadleigh and Sam Hodge - lead and followed, held space, listened and learned together. The programme was shaped in and became our creative relationship. So, even as the formal bit ends, Myco-Lective continues to grow.



Myco-Lective 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.





              

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We are delighted to announce the artists that have been selected for our new Myco-Lective artist development programme, which is curated by Feral Practice with lead artist Ama Josephine Budge. Myco-Lective is a programme engaging with ecological thinking, climate change, and multispecies futures. It takes its inspiration from human and non-human models of education, collective action, care, reciprocal networking, and mutual aid, including the mycorrhizal networks of the forest, where plants share nourishment and knowledge via the under-soil web of fungal mycelium. The programme is concerned with actively nurturing an ongoing collaborative approach and reciprocal support network between part