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Mycological provisions (2016)

Christopher Lee Kennedy

About this exposition

This exposition considers the use of mycology and chance operation as a method and material for arts-based research. The exposition details a series of mushroom hunting excursions designed to engage four artist-teachers in collaborative dialogue about their practice and identity. As participant and researcher converse, the hunts unfold as dérive-like encounters with a landscape interrupted through chance and embodied experience. The project draws from the work of artist and composer John Cage, who used fungi and mushroom hunting as one of many devices for exploring sound and its relationship to environment. Contextual research and documentation offer a glimpse into this process, while considering unstructured, kinetic, and uncertain ways of knowing in qualitative and arts-based research. The aim is to explore mycology as a post-formal lens for understanding the pedagogical and creative practices of the artist-teacher as a networked, fluid, and relational system.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsart, artography, fungi, mushroom, teaching artist, art education, education, pedagogy, mycology, science, John Cage, chance
date01/01/2016
published28/04/2016
last modified28/04/2016
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationPratt Institute
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/139420/139494
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.139420
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue10.
external linkhttp://christopherleekennedy.com/mycologicalprovisions/


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