GRADINGER/SCHUBOT

Herbarium 2019-2023

It all started with a mushroom glowing in the dark and the most tender touches. A desire arose to encounter the more-than-human world through becoming a living, embodied herbarium.

The project Herbarium is overarching, branching and bridging between several places: the Finnish forest, the Colombian rainforest, and the urban nature of Berlin. Through this, mycelium has opened a network that reaches towards ways of making, sharing, and activating through a multiplicity of forms. How can humans host and embody nonhuman knowledge? How do we carry the assemblage of our encounters? How can those be expressed and shared?

The project is initiated by choreographers Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger who, for over a decade, have been searching for new forms of co-existence through symbiotic practices that deconstruct the dominant notion of self.

Initiated by: Angela Schubot & Jared Gradinger

Supported by: Goethe Institut Finnland, Goethe Institut Colombia, Goethe Institut Germany, Organizmo/Ana Gutierrez

Produced by: Schubot & Gradinger in close collaboration with Moving in November,

Co-Produced by: Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund)

Residencies: Moving in November