What is Mycelial Praxis?

← Back to home

This essay seeks to contribute to the methodological problematic of research-creation123 by formalising a biomimetic, material conception of creative praxis inspired by the figure of fungal mycelia.

Three Principles

  1. Omnidirectional
  2. Accumulative
  3. Transformational

Fruiting Bodies

... grown from where the mycelium is most dense, which release DNA-containing spores.

Mycorrhyzal Relationships

... between research institutions and creative practitioners.

Discursive Borderlands as Transitional Ecology

Vulnerabilities in hegemonic vocabularies are exploited by the externalising logic of extractative capitalism, creating a discursive borderlands characterised by accumulations of marginalised assemblages. It is our contention that mycelial praxis, not beholden to disciplinary constraints, holds unique hope for reengaging in these externalised assemblages.

Footnotes

  1. Manning, Erin, Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) ↩

  2. Loveless Natalie, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (Duke University Press, 2019) ↩

  3. Rousell, David, Immersive Cartography and Post-Qualitative Inquiry: A Speculative Adventure in Research-Creation (Routledge, 2021), doi:10.4324/9780367816445 ↩