"This does not render the world gentle" an anthropological foray into the worlds of fungi and art

This is a project of fungi meets art meets anthropology. Through film, sensory attunement, and a variety of art practices, this multimodal thesis explores questions of what it means to make art in patchy Anthropocenes and critically examines stories of mushrooms as heroes. For this project, artists worked with prompts, some of which included each other's art, as poachable points of inspiration to create new works in various mediums. Art and interviews for this project are gathered in a written thesis and a short experimental documentary, do i know you, mushroom? The film and thesis are not explicitly linked, but rather, entangled as two expressions made with art and themes gathered throughout the research process — two baskets of mushrooms collected along the same forays. These baskets sit with fungal magnetism as affect that "does not render the world gentle," but instead invites a non-innocent wonder in the face of indifference.