Mycorrizal Co-Laborings

The event is part of the program CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION

“Roots are dead; long live the nomadic” seems to be one of the mantras which has taken hold in this so-called “age of the network”.  The reticular has – quite ironically – been crowned king.
Using samples from her work, Ilya Noé will walk us through how the recently discovered non-metaphoric intimacy between roots and rhizomes is gifting her with multiple pathways to more distributed, vulnerable, and co-extensive modes of living, working, and togethering. Along tales of synergetic relationships between plants and fungi, which biologists have termed the mycorrhizal, and which Deleuze and Guattari were unable to factor into their theorizing, Ilya will also introduce us to her figure of the sporad, as well as her practiced notion of the (s)porous, before artist Eva Meyer-Keller joins her to continue the conversation about their collaboration in the frame of the RESA pilot program.

Ilya Noé
A visual/performance artist-researcher, compulsive walker, and a fan of deer, trees, fungi, foxes, interspecies collaboration, mutualistic processes, slow research, messy theory, intellectual promiscuity, epistemological uncertainty, open-ended storytellings, ellipses…
Born and mostly assembled in Mexico City, she moved to New York to study art when she was still a teenager, and has since explanded her zone of propagation by popping up on all sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific to trace lines and build spaces by hand, on foot, and in co-creation with both humans and non-humans alike. Ilya represented her country in Venice’s OPEN2000, became a UNESCO-Aschberg Laureate, was recipient of Mexico’s National Young Art Award, and more recently showed her work at the 12th Biennale of Shanghai.
She is now based in Berlin where she was one of the organizers the Month of Performance, is one of the founders of the city’s Association for Performance Art, and teaches and mentors BA and MA students while engaged in an increasingly erratic and awkward dance with her own PhD thesis.

CHOREOGRAPHY IN ACTION
A program where artists and other professionals share thoughts about artistic work through conversations, installions, performances and films. New guest every Monday. The program is primarily adressed to  the artists in the field but open to all with an interest.
It is in English. Free Entrance.