Mycorhize

SPORA is a transdisciplinary project started in 2021, driven by artistic and ecological experimentation, by mycelium as a methodology, by fungi and by the observation of the infinitely small.

Co-founded by Charlotte Janis (artist) and Roberto dell’Orco (artist, landscape architect and architect), SPORA’s studio/laboratory/mushroom farm is based within the artist-run space Le Wonder in Bobigny. The research-creation developed from this studio has allowed SPORA to organise regular collective, participatory, artistic and protean moments. SPORA initiates, joins and connects various forms such as exhibition projects, participatory workshops, hybrid performances or installations, forest walks, landscape interventions in public space, cycles of encounters and academic research programmes.

At each of these moments, the encounters woven with intergenerational participants create a rhizomatic quality that gives rise to new transdisciplinary possibilities and collaborations, always gravitating within the thickness of the cartography of the fungal world.

In this, mycelium, which appears to us to be the message, has led us to extend our knowledge of the living, of soils, of the interactions between humans and non-humans, and to render these science-frictions artistically as sensitive stories that unite.