Future ｜支持

Future ｜support

&nbsp;緩步動物將穩定持續策劃推出各項研究性計畫，和藝術家協同開發各種工作坊模式、進行展演發表。這些計畫內容拓展不同思辨性的推論空間、體驗開發、實驗性操作來回應不同層次和向度的身體與生態議題。&nbsp;由組織核心成員所發起，這些計畫作為主動性的研究項目和教程開發實驗性模組，一方面將持續推出展演系列作品；而另一方面也將其中累積各種經驗、主題與內涵，創造出新的藝術知識生產循環，發展成為公眾參與的學習課程。在藝術知識生產中的既定迴圈中，開闢新的分流與地平線。&nbsp;

&nbsp;Moss Piglets runs a consistent research program to continue developing various activities with artists, such as workshops, exhibitions and performances. These projects reflect our major concerns around body politics and ecology issues, expanding a discursive space for experiences and experiments in different dimensions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Initiated by Moss Piglets’ core members, these projects actively formulate independent pedagogies along experimental workshop modules and research lineages, while generating new presentations from these experiences. By doing so, Moss Piglets offers a different horizon of knowledge production, turning its internal curatorial and artistic research processes into a public co-learning program.

Somewhere ｜研究與計畫

Somewhere ｜research & projects

&nbsp;緩下腳步，親近自己，向萬物學習。&nbsp;緩步動物將為各種身體量身訂造各種鍛煉計畫，這些上山下海、悠遊在不同領域或意識的主題性工作坊課程，將提供知識性、身體性、心智、想像與情感的藝術旅程，我們用共學的方案與更多生命、物質學習溝通與互重協作，創造與地球萬物各種斜槓親屬及酷關係。&nbsp;

&nbsp;It's time to slow down and get closer to yourself and the world!&nbsp;&nbsp;At Moss Piglets, we offer thematic co-learning programs, allowing participants from various backgrounds to meet and embark on creative journeys with their bodies and minds, engaging their imagination and emotions. As a knowledge-sharing platform, we propose to create new kinships with all forms of life by reinventing ways of communication and collaboration.

You ｜學習課程

You ｜learning program

研究性桌遊 x 參與型表演2024.01.20 (六), 6-9PM紀州庵人文講堂（新館三樓），台北市同安街 107 號&nbsp;報名：限定18名玩家參與，請於 1.18 前完成報名繳費，依報名完成順序招募。費用：新台幣 700元（贈南方墾殖合作社當日限定特調）&nbsp;&nbsp;「墾殖事業的一小步，南方躍進的一大步」&nbsp;《南方墾殖合作社》存在於現代化墾殖的架空歷史中，玩家將重遊臺灣歷史上最盛大的「始政四十週年臺灣博覽會」，並在隱藏版的場館中沙盤推演，體驗這個大墾殖的時代。作為開墾合作社的成員，面對著坐擁廣大資源的南方島嶼，「無主之地」的觀念是你們的發動機，透過種植高價值的經濟作物、開墾山林、加工作物都是使南方躍進重要手段。&nbsp;在遊戲初始，玩家將透過有限的人力開始自己的種植計劃，有的物種開發自本地的有用植物研究，有的則是從外地引進的高價值經濟作物。不論是何種作物，都將在南方成長與競爭，擬定不同的作物的開發策略，並在每個回合中面對環境考驗以及歷史變革，從中可能受到打擊也有可能再次加工並提升價值，促成改變南方生態的各種變因。&nbsp;這場以史料研究為基底而設計的桌遊，由吳其育、鄭文琦所主持、表演引導，參與的玩家將以推測性的策略，把歷史當作未來，在互動之中進行一場重新思考人類與自然協作共存關係的辯證，尋找多樣反帝國主義的想像，共同書寫我們即將來到的真實未來。&nbsp;活動邀請喜歡桌遊、科幻、說故事，或是關注歷史、殖民墾殖、生態、植物、經濟⋯⋯的超級玩家來參與這場難得的實驗桌遊互動演出。&nbsp;&nbsp;本活動為緩步動物所主辦的「菌絲體網絡學苑」系列活動之一，由國家文化藝術基金會所支持贊助。&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Research-based gameplay &amp; participatory performance2024.01.20 (Sat.), 6-9pmKishu An Forest of Literature (3rd Floor), No. 107 Tongan Street, Taipei&nbsp;The event can accommodate up to 18 participants. Please sign up before 01.18.Fee: TWD 700 (Including an exclusive cocktail/mocktail drink by the South Co-op)&nbsp;&nbsp;“That’s one small step for the settlement, and one big leap for the southern sphere.”&nbsp;South Co-op is a board game designed based on the historical framework of modern colonization during the Japanese occupation. Participating players will revisit&nbsp;the grandiose&nbsp;40th Anniversary of the Ruling Expo in Taiwan with the performative guidance from artists to experience the era of massive reclamation and speculate new narratives from the hidden pavilions. As a member of this co-op, players will regard the notion of “terra nullius” and the research on the tropical industries at the heart of their motivation to control the abundant resource from the island. Growing high-value cash crops, reclaiming mountains and forests, and processing crops can be all crucial means to advance the southern colony.At the game's outset, players will commence their planting plans with limited manpower. Some species are developed from local research on useful plants, while others are high-value cash crops introduced from elsewhere. Regardless of the crop, growth and competition will occur in the south. Formulating different strategies for crop development, facing environmental challenges, and historical transformations in each round, players may face setbacks or even enhance values, contributing new variables in the ecology of the south.This board game, designed based on historical research, is hosted and guided by Wu Chi-Yu and Rikey Tenn. Participating players, through speculative strategies, see history as the future, engaging in an interactive rethinking of the dialectics between humans and nature, seeking diverse anti-imperialistic imaginations, collectively scripting the true future that awaits us.&nbsp;We would like to invite super players who enjoy board games, sci-fi, storytelling or are interested in history, settlement, ecology, botany, economy…to embark on this special experiment and time travel with us.&nbsp;&nbsp;This event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.&nbsp;&nbsp;

南方墾殖合作社

South Co-op

2023.11.12 2-5.30PM與談Carolina Castro Jorquera、紀柏豪、林承緯、蔡明君主持呂岱如主辦：緩步動物場地與協辦：打開－當代藝術工作站（<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/1CGLZaNHSDWQrzMKA">台北市甘州街25號</a>，捷運大橋頭站）本活動將主要以英文舉行，免費報名參與&nbsp;自然一直是人類觀察的主題與對象，然而對於生態意識的認知與生態藝術的興起，卻是相對晚近的觀念。這不光是崇敬自然、接觸或描繪自然、或沈浸其中，由James Lovelock、Lynn Margulis在七〇年代所提出蓋亞假說所帶來的啟發，也逐漸地被人文社會學科所採納並演繹成更多關於共生理論的世界觀，並在現今氣候危機日漸加劇之際，也成為藝術家在人類世中所關注和思考的重要主題。然而，我們究竟如何將生態與藝術並置、思考與實踐？科技又在此能夠扮演何種角色？藝術和大氣中那上升的2度C要如何發生關係？大氣的組成和循環裡有藝術的存在和需求嗎？&nbsp;生態藝術所面對的實踐過程特別充滿挑戰：要如何在地連結又不介入？或介入而不破壞？是否需要奠基於關懷其他物種的傷痛、展現跨物種的感知與溝通？生態藝術的實踐要如何不止是一種漂綠的標籤或是綠化的形式，並且真正達成生態上的貢獻？藝術與科技的合作是否能夠為我們展示自然更深厚、更具精神性的維度？生態災難的奇觀化，或是展示各種警世性質的標語，是否也容易成為政治活動的藝術形式？生態藝術是主題、倫理、形式、態度還是最終是一種奠基在人類世情感需求上的敘事與想像？&nbsp;如果生態藝術是一種愛、同理與共感，這首情歌怎麼唱？本次座談邀請到多位策展人與藝術家共同分享，並一起對生態與藝術的兩難實踐、美學、倫理、科技與政治，做出回應與新的集體繪圖聯想。&nbsp;本活動為緩步動物所主辦的「菌絲體網絡學苑」系列活動之一，由國家文化藝術基金會所支持贊助。&nbsp;Talk &amp; Mapping by Carolina Castro Jorquera, &nbsp;Chi Po-Hao, Davey Lin, Ming-Jiun Tsai&nbsp;Host by Esther LuOrganized by Moss PigletsVenue supported and co-organized by OCAC (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/1CGLZaNHSDWQrzMKA">No. 25 Ganzhou Street, Taipei</a>, MRT: Daqiaotou Station)This event is conducted in English.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature has always been the subject and object of human observation, but the awareness of ecological consciousness and the rise of ecological art are relatively recent concepts. This is not just about revering nature, engaging with it, or depicting it; it's also inspired by ideas like the gaia hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. These concepts have gradually been embraced and interpreted by the humanities and social sciences, evolving into a broader worldview concerning theories of coexistence. In the face of the growing climate crisis, it has also become a significant theme of concern, action and contemplation for artists as well. However, how do we truly integrate ecology and art, both in thought and practice? What role could technology play there? How does this relate to the rising 2°c in the atmosphere? Is there a place for art within the composition and cycles of—our air?&nbsp;The practice of ecological art is particularly challenging: how can we deeply engage with the land without interfering? Or how can we interfere with the land without damaging it? Should it be grounded in empathy for the suffering of other species, demonstrating cross-species perception and communication? How can the practice of ecological art go beyond being just a green label or a form of greenwashing and truly contribute to ecology? How can art collaborate with technology to show us a deeper and spiritual side of nature? The spectacles of ecological disasters or the display of various warning messages, can they easily become a form of political activism or a political instrument? Is ecological art primarily about themes, ethics, forms, attitudes, or ultimately a narrative and imagination based on the anthropocene human emotional needs?&nbsp;&nbsp;If ecological art is a form of love, empathy, and resonance, how should this love song be sung? In this discussion, we have invited several curators and artists to share their insights and respond to the dilemmas of ecology and art, creating new understanding of its aesthetics, ethics, technology and politics in the collective mapping.&nbsp;&nbsp;The event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.&nbsp;

如何唱他們的歌 

Sing Their Songs

工作坊2023.10.29（日）, 1-5pm寶藏巖國際藝術村，山城排練場台北市中正區汀州路三段230巷14弄2號（捷運公館站一號出口）&nbsp;線上分享會2023.11.12（日）, 1-3pm線上會議連結於報名後發送&nbsp;報名：限定16名，請於 10.27 前完成報名繳費，依報名完成順序招募。費用：新台幣 800元&nbsp;&nbsp;如果酷兒的酷已經形容不了恁（ni）、非二元性別論也無法註解伊（e）的流動，我們是否還有其他去標籤化的方法來看待身份認同、或去解放這些認同機制的結構？蕈菇的36,000種性／別光譜——完全超乎人類的認知範疇，或許提供我們借鏡思索屬於自然界的酷兒現象，成為得以不斷持續轉化性／別的菌絲體能量。&nbsp;這場工作坊將著重在於探討如何從生理、心理、社會文化的不同向度，學習屬於自己身體與心智的性／別方法，讓性可以不只超越（生理、心理上的）性徵，別更能跨過我們對差異的認識。這些同時援引多重向量的過程，將透過藝術家王永安所開發的「心智皮膚譜記」（Mind-Skin Code）的操作，來具象化這場集體思辨的旅程。這套以觸覺為始的譜記方法，延著時序感知皮膚之上的環境變因、皮膚之下的內感經驗生產，而此觸覺為本、知會特定時空的溝通紀錄，也將細緻地引導我們思考皮膚內外的認知、開啟共構觸覺知識的可能。&nbsp;工作坊作為一場認知旅程開發體驗，將運用導讀、肢體習作、冥想、譜記、分享等工作方法來進行探索，並讓蕈菇性／別理論的概念與實踐可以進一步成為生命蜿蜒川流的方法與動能。&nbsp;本活動為緩步動物所主辦的「菌絲體網絡學苑」系列活動之一，由國家文化藝術基金會所支持贊助。&nbsp;&nbsp;Workshop2023.10.29 (Sun.), 1-5pmTreasure Hill Artist Village, Treasure Hill Atelier&nbsp;No. 2, Alley 14, Lane 230, Section 3, Dingzhou Road, Taipei (MRT Gongguan, Exit 1)&nbsp;Online Sharing2023.11.12 (Sun.), 1-3pm&nbsp;The meeting link will be provided after registration.&nbsp;Host: Wang Yung An, Esther LuThe event can accommodate up to 16 participants. Please sign up before 10.27.Fee: TWD 800&nbsp;If you find that 'queer' is not sufficient to describe your queenly queering and 'non-binary' is inadequate to express their fluid liquidity, perhaps it's time for us to explore alternative ways to untangle and untag our identities and liberate their supporting mechanisms. While the idea of 36,000 kinds of fungal sex may initially seem overwhelming, it is, in fact, a natural phenomenon that can inspire us to acknowledge the mycorrhizal power of sex and gender as transformative energies for all beings.&nbsp;This workshop is all about exploring how we understand our own bodies and minds in terms of sex and gender from various perspectives such as biology, psychology, and culture. It aims to go beyond just looking at physical and mental traits and help us broaden our understanding of gender differences. During the workshop, we will employ a reading/notation method called the "Mind-Skin Code," developed by the artist Wang Yung An. This method starts with our sense of touch and helps us think about how our skin, both on the surface and underneath, plays a role in how we perceive the world and ourselves in varying material contexts. It is a way to better understand how our sense of self is shaped. We will also collectively produce the knowledge on touch during this process.&nbsp;&nbsp;Throughout the workshop, we will engage in various activities, including guided discussions, physical exercises, meditation, touch notation, and sharing personal experiences. These activities will help us relate and generate the new concepts and practices of gender theory to our own lives, making mycelium inspirations the empowering agent to flourish our ways of becoming.&nbsp;The event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.

心智皮膚譜記

Mind-Skin Code

工作坊｜品菇會、讀書會、與菇冥想、坪林走踏、孢子印2023.9.16（六）11:30 - 17:30地點：那個山屋（新北市坪林親水公園內），以及附近步道主持人：Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez、陳思含、陳科廷中英雙語進行&nbsp;工作坊｜雜草發酵、菌絲語創作與分享2023.9.17（日）13:30 - 16:00地點：雜草町（台北市大同區延平北路三段52號）主持人：雜草稍慢、呂岱如中英雙語進行&nbsp;線上讀書會2023.10.15（日）16:00-18:00主持人：Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez、呂岱如公開活動，將以英文進行&nbsp;囿於場地容量，工作坊活動僅限12名全程參與者報名，依繳費完成順序錄取，報名開放至9.15中午前，額滿截止。三日套裝費用：新台幣 2000元（含所有課程活動、菌菇午餐、工作坊材料費）&nbsp;《一起變成菇！》不僅是一本書，也是一套激發社群連結、網絡與組織的方法及思維。作者 Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez 將以十二組工作坊的合作與實踐，具體回應書中每個章節從菌絲體身上所學習到的行為範式及多種啟發，包括跨物種的合作、去中心化、非線性、毒性、行動力、仿生性、死亡、非二元性別等議題的延伸思考與提問。這些內容源於她近年在拉丁美洲與加勒比海地區所大量進行的訪談，以溫暖的女性主義觀點和筆觸深入菌絲體所連結出來的生態與世界觀。&nbsp;本次在台北的工作坊由緩步動物主辦，邀請多位當地的生態專家與藝術實踐者一起聯合主持，於坪林的「那個山屋」與大稻埕的「雜草町」舉辦連續兩日的工作坊和一場線上讀書會，邀集參與者在各種體驗、品嚐、手作、走踏、觀察、創意聯想與讀書會的知性五感運動過程中，潛入真菌的異世界去發想新的生活提案與組織方式。&nbsp;本活動為緩步動物所主辦的「菌絲體網絡學苑」系列活動之一，由國家文化藝術基金會所支持贊助。&nbsp;&nbsp;<h4>Workshop｜tasting, reading, meditation, mushroom hunting, spore print</h4>2023.9.16 (Sat.)11:30 - 17:30Venue: the Place x there (inside the Pinglin Riverside Park, New Taipei City) and the surrounding hiking trailsHosts: Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Chen Szu Han, Keting ChenThe event will be bilingually conducted in Chinese and English.&nbsp;<h4>Workshop｜fermentation, fungal-verse making</h4>2023.9.17 (Sun.)1:30 - 16:00&nbsp;Venue: Grassland, No. 52, Sec. 3, Yenping North Road, Taipei (MRT: Daqiaotou Station)Hosts: Weed Day, Esther LuThe event will be bilingually conducted in Chinese and English.&nbsp;<h4>Online Reading</h4>2023.10.15 (Sun.)16:00 - 18:00Hosts: Esther Lu, Yasmine Ostendorf-RodríguezThe event will be conducted in English.&nbsp;The event is open to 12 registered participants due to the space capacity. Register open till Sept 15, 12pm.Fee: TWD 2000 (covering all activities, including the mushroom tasting lunch and all the DIY kits)&nbsp;&nbsp;Let’s Become Fungal! is more than a book. It’s a methodology and a way of thinking that can be activated in communities, networks, and organizations. The author offers a program of twelve collaboratively crafted workshops to activate every teaching inspired by mycelial behaviors, including multispecies collaboration, decentralization, non-linearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death, being non-binary, and etc.. The contents are generated from the interviews conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, illustrating a worldview that is warmly elaborated and entangled from the feminist perspective.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Taipei workshop is organized by Moss Piglets in collaboration with the Place x there in Pinglin and Grassland in Dadaocheng as a two-day workshop plus an online reading event. Participants are invited to explore the world of fungi with ecology experts and artists through a series of creative activities, such as tasting, hiking, observation, DIY, writing and reading. With these exercises led by fungi, the workshop is proposing new ways of being and socialization.&nbsp;The event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.

一起變成菇！

Let’s Become Fungal!

<h4>工作坊</h4><h4>第一場 &nbsp;2023.9.08（五）15:00 至 9.09（六）11:00</h4>第二場 &nbsp;2023.9.10（日）15:00 至 9.11（一）11:00地點：<a href="https://www.31villa.com/">柏竺山莊</a>，苗栗縣三義鄉雙潭村崩山下10號&nbsp;主持人：Henry Tan、黃鼎云、呂岱如費用：每人 3600 元（含旅平險、住宿、晚餐、早餐、點心與三義火車站至民宿來回交通），早鳥特惠 3200 元<ul><li>中英雙語進行。囿於民宿空間限制，最多開放22名參與者報名，住宿空間不提供單人床位。報名開放至9.03為止，請及早報名登記，以便安排保險等行政庶務。</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;我們有可能像蕈菇或蟬一樣睡覺嗎？人類是否有可能找到低耗能的生理運作模式——蟄伏，以精準控制體溫與新陳代謝的方法，作為一種應對未來極端氣候生存的技術？睡覺是否可以是一種我們練習與其他物種一起集體調整節奏的方式？&nbsp;請準備好身心手腳，來參與這場24小時別開生面的探險！我們將進入菌絲體的萬花世界，感受自然休眠的節律。在這場友善體驗型的工作坊中，我們將一起認識菌絲體有如網際網路一般絕妙高超的溝通科技，並無縫接軌潛入「蟄伏網路」，享受生命中的恬謐時光，學習其他動物的休眠技術，並設計屬於自己的人類休眠生活。這趟豐富的旅程裡，有奇夢百納被製作、休憩節律分享、竹林野寐等豐富行程，還有舒心冥想、晨露曦遊等探索旅程讓我們更親近蕈菇在自然循環中的關鍵角色。&nbsp;活動提醒：睡眠是這場工作坊的核心實驗，請準備好與我們度過一天不尋常的作息，我們將在奇怪的時間睡睡醒醒。並請留意所有不分性別的參與者將共用睡眠、休息、浴廁空間。&nbsp;&nbsp;本活動為緩步動物所主辦的「菌絲體網絡學苑」系列活動之一，由國家文化藝術基金會所支持贊助。&nbsp;&nbsp;<h4>Workshop</h4><h4>The first session: 2023.9.08 (Fri) 15:00 - 9.09 (Sat) 11:00</h4>The second session: 2023.09.10 (Sun) 15:00 - 9.11 (Mon) 11:00Venue: <a href="https://www.31villa.com/">Bo Zhu Villa</a>, No. 10, Bengshanxia, Sanyi Township, Miaoli County.Hosts: Henry Tan, Huang Ding Yun, Esther LuFee: NT 3600 per person, including travel insurance, one-night accommodation, dinner, breakfast, snacks and the pickup service from Sanyi Train Station. For early birds, we offer the special discount at NT 3200.&nbsp;<ul><li>The program will be bilingually conducted in Chinese and English. Due to the venue restriction, the workshop is open for 22 participants at each run, and no single bed is provided. Please register before September 3 to help us arranging the related logistics.</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;Can we learn to sleep like fungi or cicadas? Can humans find ways to go into the state of hibernation to regulate our body temperature and metabolism in a low-energy consumption mode, as a technique to fight against the future weather crisis? Can sleep become a collective exercise for us to tune in with other species?&nbsp;Get ready for a unique 24-hour adventure into the fascinating mycelium world and experience the rhythms of natural hibernation. In our friendly, hands-on workshop, discover how mycelium communicates—much like the internet—and dive into the gentle process of 'Hibernation Network'. Experience the wonder of life's quiet moments, learn about how animals hibernate, and take part in creative activities to design your own human hibernation lifestyle. Quilt-making, sharing sleep cycles, and a cozy group sleep in the bamboo grove are all part of this enriching journey. Wind down with soothing meditation and wake up refreshed to a magical morning walk, appreciating fungi's integral role in nature's cycle.&nbsp;Reminder:Sleep is central to our workshop experiment, so please be prepared to spend the day with us following an unusual routine. We will nap and wake up at odd hours. Please note that participants of all genders will share the space for sleeping, resting, and using the toilet.&nbsp;The event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.&nbsp;