WORKSHOPS

ZINE WORKSHOP - MINERAL WRITING

Com Felipe Mammoli

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Can mineral write? What can be written through mining ruins? What is the language of mountains, mines and rocks? How can we learn about other forms of writing that are not necessarily made with words?

In this workshop we wrote collective zines-manifestos, handmade. We experiment writings, we edited papers and rocks, and we speculated what a mineral writing can be. Mineral pigments, papers, cards, pictures, poems, rocks, wood and a diversity of material that helped us to expand the possibilities of what writing can mean.

The result is collective, sympoietic and circunstancial like a rock on the way. Editing rocks and words to create zines that had never been created and will never be reproduced. Zines-manifesto to think about climate changes and the risks mining practices have on the planet and on our cities.

MUSHROOMS, LINES AND KNOTS

Spore Print + handmade biding workshop with Isabela Noronha (Sybila Atletiê) & Tatiana Plens

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This workshop was realized at the University of Campinas, at the Casa do Lago Cultural Center, with a diverse public. It was the last activity of the 15 month long project "Thinking with Fungi" by LABFICCC. Twenty two persons and almost a hundred mushrooms, reunited in a large room for talk to and learn with fungi, and then turn them into organic stamps. What goes through the sheets are lines and stories build upon debating what happens when we take the human out of the center of the narrative.

Mushrooms at the center and we change the lines and stories that compose a handmade notebook, where new lines and stories take place and find fungal lines to make new compositions. After two days of thinking and working with fungi, the mushrooms become companion species - even if for just a few hours.

Our notebooks are alive, expanding, like the fungal mycelia, awaiting new stories and lines that will grow at the blank sheets.