Let’s Become Fungal! Learning from Mycelium

一起變成菇！向菌絲體學習

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Let's Become Fungal book cover

Event

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

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

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

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）

《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。

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。

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。

Workshop｜tasting, reading, meditation, mushroom hunting, spore print

2023.9.16 (Sat.)

11:30 - 17:30

Venue: the Place x there (inside the Pinglin Riverside Park, New Taipei City) and the surrounding hiking trails

Hosts: Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Chen Szu Han, Keting Chen

The event will be bilingually conducted in Chinese and English.

Workshop｜fermentation, fungal-verse making

2023.9.17 (Sun.)

1:30 - 16:00

Venue: Grassland, No. 52, Sec. 3, Yenping North Road, Taipei (MRT: Daqiaotou Station)

Hosts: Weed Day, Esther Lu

The event will be bilingually conducted in Chinese and English.

Online Reading

2023.10.15 (Sun.)

16:00 - 18:00

Hosts: Esther Lu, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

The event will be conducted in English.

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)

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.

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.

The event is sponsored by the National Culture and Arts Foundation.

Hosted by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez、陳思含、陳科廷、雜草稍慢、呂岱如

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez 是藝術與生態領域的策展人與研究者，目前居住在墨西哥市，她創辦幾個跨度在藝術及生態範疇的國際聯盟組織，包括綠色藝術實驗室聯盟、自然研究學系、荷蘭揚凡艾克學院的食物實驗室與未來材料銀行等。

「那個山屋」，被自然環繞的一間鐵皮屋，由藝術家陳柏爭與陳思含兩人與其孩子共同DIY翻修而成。作為工作室與住家生活，兩人持續與環境學習，實踐創造生活。工作室空間不定期舉辦課程工作坊、活動與展覽。

陳科廷，植物採集者、藝術家，也是「採集人共作室」的創辦人與「坪林故事採集」計畫發起人。從原本的植物、微生物、生物多樣性專業出發，同時以環境、實驗教育、藝術的方法，推動人與自然環境之間的多元互動與文化，連結土地與社區的永續生態實踐。

「雜草稍慢」，將臺灣青草、環境生態、藝術實驗揉成一團的採集藝術家，以不同的藝術展演形式、工作坊、出版、空間經營、社區計畫等，發起「當代採集」交織生物多樣性、百草文化與社會參與等多重面向。

呂岱如，策展人與作家，「緩步動物」創辦人。在文學、藝術、環境之間，尋找不同的對話方案去促成共生的生態思考。近年開發多元的另類藝術教育探索未來身體政治的相關主題。

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez works as curator and researcher on art and ecology, and is based in Mexico-City. She founded and directed many international initiatives at the intersection of art and ecology, including the Green Art Lab Alliance (Asia, Latin America and Europe) and the Nature Research Department, the Van Eyck Food Lab, and the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands).

the Place x there is a tin-sheeted house renovated by artists Chen Bo Zheng, Chen Szu Han and their young child. As their studio and living space, the Place x there is a venue to host workshops, events and exhibitions, as well as their base to continuously learn from the environment while shaping their practice and way of living.

Keting Chen, the founder of The Collectors CoSpace, and Pinglin Story, is a forager and an artist. A plant pathologist by profession, Chen employs and combines a unique blend of methodologies derived from environmental studies, experimental education and art to foster meaningful interactions between humans and nature, while promoting the sustainable eco practice as a culture to bridge community and surrounding habitats.

Weed Day is run by two foraging artists. They are conscious of the current city landscapes and the ways in which humans interact with nature. They make weed tea among other everyday essentials with the foraged weeds. When foraging they choose the more dominant and invasive plants leaving more space for native species resulting in a more biodiverse environment. To them, the weeds speak for the land. Tea is also a huge part of everyday life in Taiwan.

Esther Lu is a curator and writer, and the founder of Moss Piglets. Lu fosters new conversations on symbiosis and ecological consciousness with her approach across literature, art and environment. Her recent curatorial practice involves creating co-learning models to expand her research interest in future body politics.