context seminar, rachel pimm

on
  • origins of life and storytelling
  • natural resources. following materials around from origin to human
  • minerals, rubber, tiles (mined from ground and made to put on top again)
  • companion species, co-production of meaning. tentacular thinking. being ‘lichen’ symbiotic relationship, - a fungi (housing), and on top the algae that gets oxygen etc. in codependence. in every environment in the world. yeast as a mediator of the two. symbiosis
  • carrier bag idea
  • female scientist studied evolution after Darwin, she interested in how species collaborate tougher allows them to make a big change. Lynn margulis , symbiotic earth
  • sea slug couldn’t find food so was eating algae, photosynthesis, now leaf shape, is it animal / leaf
  • Annihilation (film）
  • David Attenborough
  • Mushroom at the End of the World (book)
  • A view from Else-where, Victoria sin (book) (script/performance) two fish becomes one, male attached to female and merge blood vessels , nutrition. don’t need sight etc so becomes lumps of flesh .
  • the second body, daisy Hildyard (book)