2017
Tessa Zettel
Performative dinner
Event at HIAP Suomenlinna, Helsinki
A dinner/collaborative mapping/reading group event around Anna Tsing’s book The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, involving risotto cooked with dried mushrooms picked months earlier in the Nuuksio forest. The event was part of a three-month residency at HIAP supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. Its title comes from a batch of dried suppilovahvero mushrooms made collectively during the Making Time project (ANTI Festival Kuopio, 2012). ‘In the dark evenings saving worthful things if you give them food’ referred to the tonttu elf whose hat resembles this mushroom’s cap, protector of the home and to whom offerings of food were traditionally made. It speaks to the possibility of learning from mushroom cultures in how we understand ourselves and our more-than-human entanglements in a climate-changed future.
Part of a wider project, Mushroom Trading Post, on its way to becoming an artist book.
Read OuMoPo blog posts about Mushroom Trading Post here
