Mycelium
A Nourishing Community
(2021)
„She walked, walked, and walked, and there stood a hut on chicken legs. She said: „Hut, hut, turn your eyes to the forest, your gate to me, so I can go in and out.“ The hut turned its eyes to the forest, and its gate toward her. She went in and there sat Baba Yaga, her breasts hanging over a rod, she was raking the coals with her nose and was sweeping the stove with her tongue. Baba Yaga asked: „Fair Maiden, have you come of your own will or not?“ *
* According to various spoken versions of stories of Baba Yaga, the ambigous mother and witch of Russian folktales
Mycelium
A Nourishing Community
(2021)
„She walked, walked, and walked, and there stood a hut on chicken legs. She said: „Hut, hut, turn your eyes to the forest, your gate to me, so I can go in and out.“ The hut turned its eyes to the forest, and its gate toward her. She went in and there sat Baba Yaga, her breasts hanging over a rod, she was raking the coals with her nose and was sweeping the stove with her tongue. Baba Yaga asked: „Fair Maiden, have you come of your own will or not?“ *
* According to various spoken versions of stories of Baba Yaga, the ambigous mother and witch of Russian folktales
MYCELIUM is (after MASA MATER) the second part of a series of the artistic exploration of the maternal body.
Based on body images from society, microbiology, folk tales and dreams, we embark on a search for the maternal body. The boundaries between organisms become blurred – we exchange information between yeast bacteria and skin cells, between eardrum and optic nerve. We grow, we spread out, we split into a thousand pieces. Where does my body begin? And am I actually here voluntarily?
MYCELIUM has toured numerous international festivals and venues. In 2024, the piece has been nominated for the Grünschnabel Prize at the Figura Festival in Baden, Switzerland and won the Jury Award at the Spectaculo Interesse Festival 2025 in Ostrava, CZ for “Authenticity, diversity, expressiveness of the body, and a strong
performative presence”.
MYCELIUM is (after MASA MATER) the second part of a series of the artistic exploration of the maternal body.
Based on body images from society, microbiology, folk tales and dreams, we embark on a search for the maternal body. The boundaries between organisms become blurred – we exchange information between yeast bacteria and skin cells, between eardrum and optic nerve. We grow, we spread out, we split into a thousand pieces. Where does my body begin? And am I actually here voluntarily?
MYCELIUM has toured numerous international festivals and venues. In 2024, the piece has been nominated for the Grünschnabel Prize at the Figura Festival in Baden, Switzerland and won the Jury Award at the Spectaculo Interesse Festival 2025 in Ostrava, CZ for “Authenticity, diversity, expressiveness of the body, and a strong
performative presence”.
Duration: 45 min.
Audience: adults
Idea, concept, play: Annina Mosimann
Sound design, composition: Fernando Munizaga
Artistic support, outside eye: Nicole Mossoux
Artistic collaboration: Raquel Mutzenberg-Andrade
Light / Technique: Lukas Schneider
Mentor: Julika Mayer
Video, photo: Patricio González
Supported by: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Theater Stadelhofen Zürich, Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Touring Support: Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung
Duration: 45 min.
Audience: adults
Idea, concept, play: Annina Mosimann
Sound design, composition: Fernando Munizaga
Artistic support, outside eye: Nicole Mossoux
Artistic collaboration: Raquel Mutzenberg-Andrade
Light / Technique: Lukas Schneider
Mentor: Julika Mayer
Video, photo: Patricio González
Supported by: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Theater Stadelhofen Zürich, Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Touring Support: Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung
