Mycelial Digestion Workshop (followed by Intelligent Fungi opening gathering)

Mycelial Digestion workshops are one-off collaborative and playful research and writing workshops inspired by fungal digestion.

Humans and fungi are more similar than one might think, and one commonality we share is enzymatic digestion. But while humans digest internally, fungi secrete enzymes into their surrounding environment, breaking things down and making nutrients available for themselves and myriad beings simultaneously. As Anna Tsing puts it, “fungal eating is often generous: It makes worlds for others.” How might we look to mycelium as a model for learning and making as a chance community, digesting for ourselves and for one another?

This workshop will activate Curiouseed’s Intelligent Fungi mycolibrary, which gathers many books on fungi. We'll read and learn alongside one another, "digest" for each other, and gather our individual reflections into a collective zine, producing a collage of corresponsive perspectives that will live on at the library throughout the residency period.

This is one of a series of Mycelial Digestion workshops that will be co-hosted with various institutions, organizations and fungally-inclined humans around the city.

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Please RSVP at https://kinvite.co/p/-skWhxzE
$10-$20 Pay as You Can

Note: For this workshop to flow and to build collaborative community, participants should be present for the full workshop (not a drop-in scenario)

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About the Lead Facilitator

Chloe Zimmerman is an artist, writer and educator based in Brooklyn. She is the founder and facilitator of the Mycological Research Playgroup, a collaborative research and production group for artists and environmentalists to learn about and with fungi.

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About the Intelligent Fungi Series

This event is part of Intelligent Fungi, a three month exhibition and workshop series brought to you by Curiouseed to celebrate the fungal wisdoms and learn from fungi, our greatest teachers, to build, nourish, and heal.

Learn more about the series: www.curiouseed.com/fungi2019

Visit us on Governors Island during the public hours!
August 3 - October 27
Saturdays 11am - 5pm
Sundays 11am - 5pm

Ongoing Programs During Public Hours

Mycelium Running
Mycolibrary
Mushroom Water Filtration Demo
Becoming Biodiversity: Fungus (Amy M. Youngs, Josh Rodenberg, Danielle McPhatter, Jayne Kennedy, audio)

Workshops & Events

Aug 4 | Mycelial Digestion Workshop (Chloe Zimmerman, workshop)
Aug 11 | Partner with Fungi to Support Ecosystem Health (Jess Rubin, workshop)
Aug 24 | Introduction to Mushroom Identification (Paul Sadowski, talk)
Sept 8 | Fruiting Bodies: Creative Experiments in Fungal Inoculation & Mycoremediation (Christopher Kennedy, Chloe Zimmerman, Lucia Monge, workshop)
Sept 14 & 21 | MycoPaper: Making Handmade Paper with Mushrooms (Nica Rabinowitz, workshop)
Oct 6 | Mushroom Walk (New York Mycological Society, outdoor)
Oct 19 | Styrofoam Decomposition Experiment (show and tell)

The Intelligent Fungi Series a public program completely run by volunteers and fueled by community donations. You can help us keep the program running by volunteering with us or making a donation today!

Volunteer with Us: https://forms.gle/AJKaXK4JkifPZfeK9
Make a donation: https://kinvite.co/p/mXfVuHFo

A big THANK YOU to the Swale House for hosting our program on Governors Island.

If you have any questions, please contact us directly at hi@curiouseed.com.

Look forward to seeing you!

• JJ