Sun 10 Oct 2021 @ 14.00
The Old Grammar School
Hales Street, Coventry, England, CV1 1HP
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Duration: 2 hours
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Guideline Audience Age Range: 10+
Coventry Biennial 2021 x Green Futures
Learn how trees and other plants talk to each other through their roots and fungal (mycorrhizal) networks. After preparation indoors, we’ll 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.
Coventry Biennial is a festival of contemporary art taking place across Coventry & Warwickshire within and supported by UK City of Culture 2021. Expect new work by local and International artists, workshops, performances, talks, tours and much more.
For more information visit: www.coventrybiennial.com
No special drawing ability required. Dress for the weather.
Created by sirenscrossing, 'becoming fungi, becoming forest' is commissioned by Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 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.
Image: Carolyn Deby / sirenscrossing
