Amanda Baum

Mycohive: Telling the Bees, Shrouding the Soil is an investigation into ecological and cultural restoration, exploring how human rituals can trigger and help remediate symbiotic relationships between mushrooms, bees and plants. The old European tradition of telling the bees of a death is woven together with the practice of mycoremediation and new research on the immunological benefits of specific mushroom species to support honey bees.

To stage the emergence of multispecies co-dependence, the travelling Mycohive takes residence in close proximity to honey bee colonies. Here, rituals are mediated by the three Mycohive-kin, to heal soil toxicity and introduce bee-supporting mushrooms and plants. By composing and decomposing multispecies encounters, the Mycohive rituals are an invitation to turn the fear of ‘human colony collapse’ into an opportunity for transformation.

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