KRAK
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KRAK is an installation with an audio tour and in-depth workshops centered around the Dark Honey fungus as a narrator of decay in the forest. KRAK took place during the Oerol Festival 2024.
Upon arrival, the visitor is welcomed through a gate placed awkwardly on the path. When scanning a QR code the audio tour through a forest with creaking trees starts. Here the (in)visible Dark Honey Fungus is central to an installation about decay; decomposers, the fungi that break down.
Is the Dark Honey Fungus an assassin or a cleaner? While walking along a narrow path, the audio tour guides you through questioning and provides historical context. After a few minutes walk, the visitor comes across an installation made of cracked tree trunks reminiscent of a plantation. How can the degradation of the Dutch landscapes be understood in a larger system-changing creeping movement ushering in more (bio)diversity and proliferation? The audio tour continues along a dune path with a view of a multitude of decrowned trees. The last part of the audio tour leads along a forest path, walking over cracking tree bark; Perhaps the first stage of decline? Are there things in you and your relationships that are ready to decay?
The cracked wood and bark used come from this location and the local sawmill and processor Island Woods and were borrowed for this occasion. The cracked wood and bark will decay further afterward locally.
Workshops
When we examine the unsustainability of the ecology and economy of the plantation; Which relationships we are entangled in, are ripe for dissolution? Through two different workshops given multiple times a day by an interdisciplinary artist, environmentalist, and a decolonial activist, participants are guided through embodied constellations about hierarchy, monocultures, alienation, connection, balancing, and letting go.
How does your human body find its posture… in the plantation? In this workshop, Anne Jesuina en Chihiro Geuzebroek guides visitors to see the connections between the economic and ecological dimensions of the plantation of the past and today. Can we sense how the plantation continually skews relationships until a breaking point is reached?
The Dark Honey Fungus only eats dead trees in a healthy biodiverse forest. The fungus also kills living trees in a monoculture or in a climate-changed landscape. Its spread can be seen as an indicator of disturbed relationships. In this workshop, guided by Joanna van der Hoek and Chihiro Geuzebroek participants practice disrupting relationships by adopting physical postures of dominance and subordination. Through small adjustments in the body, we will practice in other postures. After a short demonstration of constellation work, we start an exercise in pairs.
KRAK is the outcome of the stage decay and part of the multi-year research project StagingWood in which Elmo Vermijs, with a growing coalition along the life cycle of the forest -germination, growth, decay, and death- is looking for different relationships between humans and forest.
For more info, see: www.stagingwood.org
Is the Dark Honey Fungus an assassin or a cleaner? While walking along a narrow path, the audio tour guides you through questioning and provides historical context. After a few minutes walk, the visitor comes across an installation made of cracked tree trunks reminiscent of a plantation. How can the degradation of the Dutch landscapes be understood in a larger system-changing creeping movement ushering in more (bio)diversity and proliferation? The audio tour continues along a dune path with a view of a multitude of decrowned trees. The last part of the audio tour leads along a forest path, walking over cracking tree bark; Perhaps the first stage of decline? Are there things in you and your relationships that are ready to decay?
The cracked wood and bark used come from this location and the local sawmill and processor Island Woods and were borrowed for this occasion. The cracked wood and bark will decay further afterward locally.
Workshops
When we examine the unsustainability of the ecology and economy of the plantation; Which relationships we are entangled in, are ripe for dissolution? Through two different workshops given multiple times a day by an interdisciplinary artist, environmentalist, and a decolonial activist, participants are guided through embodied constellations about hierarchy, monocultures, alienation, connection, balancing, and letting go.
How does your human body find its posture… in the plantation? In this workshop, Anne Jesuina en Chihiro Geuzebroek guides visitors to see the connections between the economic and ecological dimensions of the plantation of the past and today. Can we sense how the plantation continually skews relationships until a breaking point is reached?
The Dark Honey Fungus only eats dead trees in a healthy biodiverse forest. The fungus also kills living trees in a monoculture or in a climate-changed landscape. Its spread can be seen as an indicator of disturbed relationships. In this workshop, guided by Joanna van der Hoek and Chihiro Geuzebroek participants practice disrupting relationships by adopting physical postures of dominance and subordination. Through small adjustments in the body, we will practice in other postures. After a short demonstration of constellation work, we start an exercise in pairs.
KRAK is the outcome of the stage decay and part of the multi-year research project StagingWood in which Elmo Vermijs, with a growing coalition along the life cycle of the forest -germination, growth, decay, and death- is looking for different relationships between humans and forest.
For more info, see: www.stagingwood.org