Image: In the Woods, 2007, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Cosmopolitan Bodies - Two Billion Years of Branching and Fusing
Thursday, 20th of May 2021 - 18:30 (online)
in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history, and is a helpful reminder that all life forms are in fact processes not things.
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, The Bodley Head / Penguin Random House, 2020
Since the beginning of this year, we have been reading Merlin Sheldrakes inspiring book Entangled Life. Both being passionate mushroom hunters, this book shows us so many more and unexpected levels of how our life is interconnected with these often hidden, organisms.
Over the course of the months our copies of the book have themselves become an interconnected organism "connected to each other, not linearly, but in a net-like, entangled fabric" to quote Humboldt.
In ‘Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club’ we read together texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism, and (post)anthropocene, chosen from a female perspective looking beyond disciplines.
Those who would like to attend the reading session, please rsvp via email until the 19th of May to betweenusnature@gmail.com to receive the zoom link. For those who don’t have the book yet, there is time to get it. Otherwise we will share the text on screen while meeting.
At this reading group we will read passages together out loud and share our experiences and thoughts about the nature we live in, what it means to us, and will discuss different ways of engaging with the world we inhabit.
NOTE the TIME: We start at 18:30. We have 2 hours reading together.
Come and join us with an open mind here:
What: The Reading Club is in English language
Where: Online via Zoom : Please install the app on your device beforehand
When: Thursday May 20, 2021, 18:30 CEST (sharp!)
Who: small group of lovely, people who would like to meet you (personal rsvp is necessary: please confirm your attendance betweenusnature@gmail.com
Why: to read together, be inspired and meet people
Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
Image: In the Woods, 2007, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky