List of authors in order of reading:
Forrest Gander: Twice alive [excerpts]. New Directions Publishing Corporation. 2021.
Alina Tofan: We are., unpublished. 2024
Clare Goulet: graphic scripta/ writing lichen [excerpts]. Gaspereau Press. 2024
Sandra Lawrence: The magic of mushrooms. Fungi in folklore, superstition and traditional medicine. Welbeck. Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens. 2022
gcv: supă de licheni or lichen stew. unpublished. July 2026.
Christopher DeWeese: Poem for Lichen. [excerpts]
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: Let’s become fungal!. Valiz, Amsterdam. 2023.
A. Laurie Palmer: The Lichen Museum. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. London (Art after nature). 2023
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press. 2015.
Sophie Strand (1). Lichenized lovers. Symbiosis in Together and Tristan & Isolde. Part IV of Confessions of a Romantic Animist. Substack post. 13 Jun 2026
Caleb Parkin: Terms of Service: Your Fruiting Body. after Google’s Terms of Service from ”This Fruiting Body.” Nine Arches Press. 2021 (available on ECOPOETIKON)
e.e. cummings: I like my body when it is with your body (available on Poeticous) – quoted by Sophie Strand (1).
Sophie Strand (2). The Fairies are Back & They’re Even Smaller: The Meeting of Magic & the Microscopic World of “Smalls.” published in Braided Way 8 Aug 2021.
Sophie Strand (3) Final lesson from ”Polyphonies of leaf and bark”, posted on Creatrix Magazine. 19 Feb 2021.
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List of references:
“smalls”: notion coined by Siv Watkins. Micro-animism on Substack.
”funga”: term first appeared in this paper in 2018. From there, Fauna-Flora-Funga initiative was created.
”metaspore”: imagined by conceptual artist Anicka Yi. Title of her exhibition and catalogue ed. Pirelli HangarBicocca. 2022
”holobiont”: coined by Lynn Margulis in her seminal 1991 book Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis.
”we are all lichen”: phrase originally by Scott F. Gilbert, evolutionary biologist.
”sympoesis”: originally coined in 1998 by M. Beth L. Dempster in her Master’s thesis, A Self-Organizing Systems Perspective on Planning for Sustainability Later used and popularised by Donna Haraway.
”symbiontics”: proposed by Caroline A. Jones in Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
”ecoperformance”: coined by Maura Baiocchi, Brazilian performing artist, in 2009, practice and art film festival developed with Taanteatro Co.
The works cited are subject to copyright. Excerpts used during this non-commercial, free event remain under the copyright of their respective authors.
Co-creators, performers: gcv, Alina tofan, kiro // Hosted by: ZigZag ReadingRoom Brussels, BE.
The event is part of Plastic Art Performance collective’s art research < symbio-bodies: cryptogams > taking place between 17.07 and 31.07 in Brussels. The residency of 3 (gcv, Alina, Tofan, alexkiro) is dedicated to ”making kin” with: fungi, lichens, moss, ferns and other forest beings, and aims to develop and test sensory, perceptual and body-based tools to come into poetic engagement/ entanglement with these “hidden” reproducers (cryptogams).
The residency is awarded a grant from Culture moves Europe. Funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
