Annie Ratti

Description

Tent. The Shroom Project, Middelburg, De Vleeshal, 27-04-2013, 23-06-2013. - Publicatie documenteer een project met paddenstoelen door de Zwitserse kunstenares Annie Ratti. - Using photography, video, installation, and texts, interdisciplinary artist Annie Ratti questions and rethinks contemporary human conflicts, uncertainties and social complexities, often transforming her private experience into a public or participatory event. Such is the case with her research into the science, cultivation, and cultural and ethnographical significance of psilocybin mushrooms. With source documents, photographs and installation views and step-by-step instructions on how to grow psychedelic fungi, Ratti encapsulates the Western fascination with these rhizomatic organisms