Installation and performances
Jared Gradinger, Angela Schubot, Stefan Rusconi, Alm Gnista & Shelley Etkin: The Hut

Moving in November

Fri, 04.11.2022 -
Sun, 13.11.2022
Stoa, Helsinki

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During the course of Moving in November festival, the fungi hut will host various offers from the team of human and nonhuman collaborators. Together they will experiment with ways of living in the symbiocene infused with life; fungi, human presences, and regenerative practices. The Hut is a co-created living being, dedicated to the queendom of fungi which now resides in the wooden structures of the hut, the logs, the piano as well as the soil. The hut has traveled from Pomarkku to Tenhola, during a process of regenerative practices. The fungi are both invited and inoculated, as well as wild-grown.

In June 2022 the hut was placed in the Stoa square, and a mushroom garden was grown with the intention to offer the fungi a space to thrive. The garden installation will be transformed into a space that will be open to the public for various forms of encounters. The hut is an invitation to witness life forms unfolding in ways that we stand alongside, acknowledging unseen processes happening on other timescales.

Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot offer a durational performance of embodied and musical mushroom encounters in collaboration with Stefan Rusconi who plays the hut as a hybrid instrument, together with fungi, soil, robot arms, human listening, and prepared piano. They are also joined by long-term ally Shelley Etkin, who leans towards the voices beyond language, tracking articulations that have emerged through communicative processes.

The Hut is part of a project Herbarium, presented in Moving in November festival 3.-13.11.2022. The project is initiated by choreographers Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger. During the festival Schubot and Gradinger together with their working group share three parts of Herbarium: The Hut, Memory Garden, and the solo SAMMAL/MOSS. As part of the festival, there will be an open discussion with the invited artists and local host called Soup Talk on the 6th of November at noon in Caisa.