Fruiting Bodies Collective: Rituals For Uneasy Species
Blindside 5–15 March 2025
Madeleine Collie, George Criddle, Brodie Ellis, Andrew Goodman, Zoe Scoglio, Adele Wilkes
Hosting rituals and gatherings since 2023, Fruiting Bodies is a queer ecology collective which seeks to productively nurture and incomplete each other’s creative practices, finding resonances between ideas and ways of working, and collectively moving together with shared concerns and enthusiasms.
Over 10 days in March at Blindside, the collective comes together for Rituals for Uneasy Species. They invite the Blindside community to join them in playful, embodied, textual, material, ritual, divinatory and conversational practices as a way to locate us in time and space through moments of collective sense making, and to explore alternative forms of conviviality and being with the more-than-human.
This time will be punctuated by three ‘un-easy gatherings’ and practice-sharing as we think with other lifeforms (including blackberry and lichen) to help queer boundaries and minds (see next page for details).
The exhibition features a growing installation, a book collection, and a program of events where members of the collective will share practices that explore ecology, queerness, neurodiversity, and coloniality through a reading on lichen, a workshop on dyeing with blackberry, and an experimental sensory open studio day with incense making, fermentation, and divination. There is also space to read, rest, reflect and contribute to a growing collection of ‘loose-leaf’ works.