Free the Trees: Revealing the Wood-Wide-Web with Carolyn Deby (sirenscrossing)
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Photo by Carolyn Deby/sirenscrossing
No special drawing ability required. Dress for the weather. Recommended for age 10+
Meet at the Old Grammar School
Learn how trees and other plants talk to each other through their roots and fungal (mycorrhizal) networks spreading wide and deep beneath the soil. Even in cities, under pavements and roads, tree roots and fungal networks continue to communicate and exchange nutrients. After preparation indoors, we’ll together use chalk to draw the root and fungi network of a nearby urban tree onto the surfaces that surround it. Many hands will thus magically reveal a wide (invisible) web of life that lies beneath our feet.
About becoming fungi, becoming forest
Imagine the city as a place of invisible connections, as part of the biosphere interlinking all living beings. Can you see that the city is also a forest? Probe soil and reveal mycorrhizal networks. Probe bodies and discover that ‘we’ are ecosystems spanning boundaries and transgressing categories. This event, part of ‘becoming fungi, becoming forest’ will explore human entanglements in the shimmering ‘biome’ of interacting beings and their systems (humans, fungi, trees, microbes and other life), on scales from massive to microscopic. You are multiple.
Created by sirenscrossing, becoming fungi, becoming forest is commissioned by Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 / Green Futures and Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, with support from The Pod, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at University of Exeter, the British Mycological Society, the Arborocultural Association, and GroCycle.
This project is part of Green Futures supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Severn Trent Community Fund.
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