Fungi have many teachings to offer. A teaching of life and death. Of circularity. Of interconnectedness. Of developing strategies and tools of overcoming. They teach us beauty in decay and the importance of reprocessing.
They grow from rotten substance, in disturbed ecosystems and radioactive environments.
How? and what if we understood how they do it? Us living in a capitalist, classist, oppressive system. An imbalanced and lacking system. Don’t we need to know how they do it?
Have we entered the Anthropocene or is it still the Holocene? We don’t know and neither are we looking for an answer Nevertheless
Other Than Human Entity is an attempt to take away from our importance, to shift from anthropocentric views and acknowledge different strategies. ways of living, reproducing, multiplying, expanding, digesting, fighting, swallowing, communicating, interacting, birthing and passing.
In order to understand and venerate those ways of Otherness we will be letting the mycelium run. In our lab. It’s a small lab and most of the things were built by ourselves. There’s a red curtain with yellow flowers covering the window which has to stay tilted. Fresh air for the mushrooms.
