Fruiting Bodies: A Multisensory Worldbuilding Workship with Umi Hsu

What if we could compost the multiple lives within our single lifetime to grow a world? Join sound artist Umi Hsu for an evening of artist talk and concept-based activities that explore mushrooms, mycelium, and trans temporality. Umi Hsu will give a performance lecture introducing their practice that combines oral history, biomaterials, and worldmaking, while playing sounds on a living fungi synthesizer that they built.

Workshop participants will have an opportunity to interact with the fungi synth and engage in speculative oral history group activities prompted by fungal life.