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Gentle Disco

Help us build Pigeon Towers by dancing on Mycelium

27 May 2022

A batch of mycelium bricks will come in again, so it's time for another ‘Gentle Disco’ to press them. Join us to dance on the mycelium while listening to some good music by DJ Huppeldepup, and contribute to the building process of our pigeon towers. All will take place outside our barn in the open air.

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29-09-2023 deelnemers dansen op mycelium - Gentle Disco - Arne Hendriks Arne Hendriks maakt levende duiventorens van de afvalstromen van de paddenstoelenkweek. Na twee keer paddenstoelen oogsten is het mycelium (de wortelstructuren van de schimmels) niet meer vruchtbaar genoeg voor de kwekerij, maar voor de torens is het materiaal perfect. De Gentle Disco is een collectief dansritueel waar we samen met deelnemers en voorbijgangers het mycelium eren en platstampen met onze voeten. Door dit ritueel wordt de mycelium vruchtbaarder en wordt het materiaal sterker en…

With: Elise Chalcraft, Abdul Hadi Paryani, Marguerite d'Ervau
With:
Arne Hendriks

Pigeon Towers

Every two to three weeks, a new pigeon tower emerges at the Biotoop. These structures are an ongoing experiment to build with living mycelium waste from oyster mushroom farms. The project investigates questions such as: Can we build structures to house feral pigeons? What is the best design to build a tower with mycelium? And how long does it take for the bricks to grow together? Through experimenting with different shapes, and building structures, we see how the material responds, and if we can build a comfy living space for the pigeons of Amsterdam. 

Arne Hendriks

Arne Hendriks is guiding the pigeon tower project. He is an artist and researcher on human ecology. He explores the borders of specific cultural values that define our relationship with the planet. His projects include The Incredible Shrinking Man that researches if it is possible to downsize the human species to better fit the earth and Fatberg, the building of an island of fat. As a regular Mediamatic collaborator, he directed several projects to draw attention to our (sometimes twisted) relation with the planet and its resources, like Kool Abundance, The Starvation Experiment, and the building of a holy pigeon tower out of recycled newspapers.

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The Gentle Disco is free, just pass by!

In case you have any questions, you can send an email to program@mediamatic.nl.