the funghi of care: an anarchist manifesto

In collaboration with Florencia Pochinki, Maikki Siuko and Natacha Lamounier

The manifesto aimed to break the usual, linear structure and instead think of it both vertically, horizontally and expanding to all directions around the internet. The manifesto took the form of a fungi, a network. The manifesto consisted of short texts and hyperlinks about different perspectives to fungi, care and anarchism.

How do Fungi care? How can we perceive care from a fungal perspective? If care consists of the ontological relations with the world, how can we not fall into anthropomorphizing the Fungi actions but instead, be open to new symbiotic relations with humans and nonhumans? What if we build care relationships with all the different parts of the network, while also recognising their divergent agencies? Can a fungal point of view help us destabilize our anthropocentric and patriarchal notions of care? Can it help us decolonize notions of care and start to question who/when/how/what to care about?

This manifesto was conceived as part of Anarchy, Art and Anachrony, a workshop lead by Laura Beloff and Morten Søndergaard.

The workshop is a collaboration between: Aalborg University / Media Arts Cultures program (Erasmus+ funded) and Aalto University / Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art program

The work was presented at the Gothe institute in Amsterdam as part of the All good things must begin: Roots & Routes exhibition.