Currently, I am developing a body of work inspired by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing`s essay “Domestication Gone Wild” This work in process evolves around mushrooms. Mushroom picking involves a lot of wandering outdoors. Here in my case I have constructed a narrative of domestication of this companion. It might have started as an endeavour of growing oneself food, but then evolved into sharing a world with them.

This project is funded with the support of Niilo Helander Foundation.

I started with some tests with my collaborator choreographer Jyrki Karttunen where he is enjoying himself by playing chess in a public library and he has taken a chair and the mushrooms living on out with him.

To be continued…