Panel #3 Session 1

 

 

Mushrooms, rabbits and birds: More than human encounters and creative practice

   - Andraya Stapp-Gaunt, Charlotte Stone & Josh Finzi

     University of Canberra

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Andi Stapp’s research is a thought experiment in storying with rabbit-kin for partial healing using sympoiesis, string-figures (Haraway, 2016), and Indigenous epistemology and ontology (Yunkaporta, 2019).
 

Charlotte is a PhD candidate currently researching at University of Canberra within the more-than-human geographies and environmental humanities fields. Having completed her Honours project exploring human/more-than-human engagements at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary, she is now looking at how birdlife may (re)shape human imaginaries of home. Charlotte’s primary research concerns are centred on the need to shift and decentre ontologies of living alongside more-than-human beings, in today’s age of the Anthropocene.

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Josh Finzi’s research explores the representation of fungi by invoking tropes of metamorphosis to argue that this process involves a threshold where biunivocal correspondences of identity and subject are negated, generating potential fields of representation in which we can produce more knowledgeable and authentic depictions of fungal lifeworlds.