MYCELIAL SINGING WITH JAMIE MCCARTHY (sirenscrossing)
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Mycelial Singing (17 and 23 Oct) IMAGE : RYAN ALEXANDER ( https://onecm.com )
In this workshop we will experiment with singing as a fun way to ‘perform’ a tangled fungi network. We will have samples of living fungi mycelium on hand for inspiration. A gentle voice warm-up will lead into simple singing games that explore the idea of layers, networks, and connections, moving, merging, and separating. Have fun and surprise yourself!
Singers of any (or no) experience welcome. Bring a mat, large towel, or blanket to lie down on!
Recommended for age 18+
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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