The mycelium
is the trembling
fungal forcefield,
experience itself,
where we situate
our work
It is all we do;
all we can do.
The mycelium
is the trembling
fungal forcefield,
experience itself,
where we situate
our work
It is all we do;
all we can do.
Our primary focus is not a human audience. It is not about changing minds or persuading with philosophy. Our work is to open spaces of spacious play where new practices of care can blossom. The mycelium is more than a framework for our projects; it is an encounter with what cannot be anticipated.
Mbari
Mycorrhiza
Mycorrhiza | Network
Mycorrhizae are the unholy alliances between fungi and plant roots, a strange mutuality that does not care about identity and fixity, or parse between self and other.
Within Dancing with Mountains, our Mycorrhiza project is our relational architecture. It holds our networks, fellowships, and collaborations across organizations, foundations, and institutional thresholds. But more than that, it names our commitment to unlearning together - to forging relationships that are more improvisational than strategic, more fungal than firm.
We are less interested in clarity than in curiosity. We are playing with how institutions might become leaky, how partnerships might become ceremonial, how funding might become a paraphilanthropic gesture - an offering to the unknown.
We do not believe leadership is about arriving first. We think it's more alien than that. More awkward. More fungal. More drift than drive.
The Emergence Network (ten)
Instituto Toriba
Kalliopeia Foundation
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Confluence Philanthropy
Garrison Institute
Mbari | Carnivals
When the earth shook in Owerri, when the crops failed, when the rivers ran foul and the children fell sick and the diviners said that Ala was not pleased, the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria did something that would baffle the modern mind. Instead of building a hospital or convening a committee or producing a task force for disaster mitigation, they built a house. A beautiful house. Filled with gods and statues and everyday objects.
The house, built with such labour, such artistry, such sacred attention, is given to the weather. Given to the termites. Given to the rain and the sun and the wind and the slow, patient, geological work of dissolution.
The mbari is designed to decay.
In this spirit, we are composing a physical mbari across distance. We’ve invited artists from across the globe to tend to a craft practice for five months, creating a distributed shrine, a scattered offering, a shared porosity. The mycelial sensorium seeks to notice ancestry and lineage, mythologies and stories, ecologies and spirits, composting and decay that permeate our craft. What we make will go back to the earth as an offering. We will not turn away from the falling. The falling is the practice.
Coming Soon
×
Team member bio and details will appear here.