Rema Grace and Dave Crossley are co-founders of Mycelium Thinking CIC, a not-for-profit arts company nurturing an emergent field the ‘mycelial arts and humanities’. Their arts-led inquiry works with the rich metaphors of fungi, incorporating community arts, cross-disciplinary entanglements, and land-based artivism. Their research is particularly inspired by underground mycorrhizal networks — a vast world-wide fungal architecture supporting the existence of everything we know. Their overall mycelial-inspired ethos is that deeper connectedness, within both our inner and outer landscapes, can co-create the healthier societal networks needed to support a more just and flourishing future.

Rema and Dave have always had a keen interest in the cultural underground, marginal knowledge, and the fertile, yet often overlooked, edgelands of society. Their work seeks to unearth and decompose the status quo, to continually bridge gaps between the fringes and the mainstream. Their creative work is often described as otherworldly, off-kilter, and a bit weird to say the least. Rema recently finished her DYCP arts-led fungi research project funded by Arts Council England, and is aiming to shape this learning and raw creative material into performance. Dave is carrying forward his 20+ years experience as a DJ and arts organiser into new musical territories. Working collaboratively they are expanding their loop station practice through developing recording skills outdoors, honing mimicry of other species, and visioning their 1-hour multi-arts immersive experience ‘The Ministry of Mycelial Arts.’

At Cove Park, we will be planning and co-designing ‘Ministry of the Mycelial Arts’ – combining together mushroom growing, musical performance, and nurturing our collective journey towards a more flourishing future for all. We will work on developing our collaborative sound art practice and field recording techniques, ‘plugging-into’ various fungi and plants across your 50-acre site.