Mycelial Media Archive

The visible and invisible relations that hold everything together, in music and beyond, mark the point of departure for MaerzMusik 2022. Sensing the forces of uncertainty, vulnerability, and transformations in our present, we want to evoke the question of how to relate in different and diverse ways.

One of the guiding metaphors in this quest is the mycelium, the vast network of branching filaments or hyphae that builds the vegetative part of a fungus. The mycelium pervades the soil, traversing species and milieus, connecting, supporting, signaling, communicating, decomposing, detoxifying, and healing in ways that are yet to be fully understood.

Mycology, the science of fungi, is a fast-expanding and highly diverse field of knowledge that brings together ecology, biology, soil science, neuroscience, psychology, Western and traditional medicine, nutritional science, cultural sciences and other disciplines, with a growing horizon of technical applications to address food security, climate change and the physical and mental health of humans – to such an extent that some are speaking of an ongoing “Mycelium Revolution”.

This film programme, co-hosted by MaerzMusik and transmediale, aims at making available video material that reflects the current state of knowledge and activism related to the world of fungi, and the mycelium in particular.

This archival film programme, compiled by Daniela Bershan and Nahla Koch as part of the “Mycelial Work Group” at “Thinking Together” (20.–25.3., 14:30–17:30, silent green, Atelier 2), presents a wide spectrum of publicly available audiovisual material that reflects the extent and diversity of theoretical and practical knowledges related to the world of fungi, and the mycelium in particular, including lectures, panels and interviews, research reports, DIY instructions, promotional material of mycelial technologies, artistic videos, and many others.

Temporary, partial and incomplete as it necessarily is, this living archive reflects current manifestations of this highly dynamic phenomenon in the public media-sphere, mirroring the socio-cultural, aesthetic and discursive richness and heterogeneity of the ongoing “Mycelium Revolution”.

The “Mycelial Media Archive” is co-hosted by MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues and transmediale.

Programme

19.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Dives into Mycology
Inspiring Mycologists I
Ethnomycology
Mushroom Cultivation
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms

20.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
The Mycology of Consciousness – Medicinal & Healing
Inspiring Mycologists II
Mycelial Technologies
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms
"How To" Videos

21.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Mycoremediation – Decontaminating the Environment
Inspiring Mycologists III
Miscellanea
Mushroom Cultivation
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms

22.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Mycelial Technologies
Inspiring Mycologists IV
Mycoremediation – Decontaminating the Environment
Mushroom Cultivation
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms

23.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Inspiring Mycologists I
The Mycology of Consciousness – Medicinal & Healing
Intersectional Approaches in Mycology
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms
„How To“ Videos

24.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Inspiring Mycologists II
Dives into Mycology
Miscellanea
The Mycology of Consciousness – Medicinal & Healing
„How To“ Videos

25.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Ethnomycology
Dives into Mycology
Inspiring Mycologists I
Mushroom Cultivation
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms

26.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Miscellanea
Inspiring Mycologists I
Dives into Mycology
"How To" Videos

27.3.2022, 14:00–18:00
Intersectional Approaches in Mycology
Ethnomycology
Inspiring Mycologists III
Mushroom Cultivation
Foraging & Processing Mushrooms