“As I\u2019ve mentioned not once in my previous interviews, besides my main activity and business (a gallerist at Galerie Uberall), I\u2019m a dedicated mushroom picker and, like the majority of gallerists, have a great passion for collecting. Currently I own quite a large collection of mushrooms consisting of specimens picked in Lithuanian forests in 2016.<\/p>\n
While building this mushroom collection, I couldn\u2019t but notice a new mushroom species that I keep coming across… (I\u2019m not sure how it should be called…) But it\u2019s a highly resilient or, perhaps we should say,\u00a0invasive mushroom species<\/em>, which multiplies at the speed of geometric progression and is found in forests, near expanding settlements. I\u2019ve never picked this species, but in this year, 2018, I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n As I don\u2019t know how this species is called, I\u2019m going to call it \u2018Unnamed\u2019 or \u2018Unknown\u2019.<\/p>\n Mushrooms of these unknown species are presently found in almost all forests all around the world. It\u2019s difficult not to notice them… It\u2019s even more difficult in the woods of Mick\u016bnai environs, where I go quite often… or what\u2019s left of them…<\/p>\n Perhaps these woods have such a large population of these mushrooms because there\u2019s enough humidity and darkness…? Or perhaps these mushrooms grow in exactly the opposite climatic conditions…? I have no clue…<\/p>\n It is thought that these mushrooms reproduce via spores. It is also thought that spores are carried by animals in their stomachs. They also say: \u201cmushrooms \u2018travel\u2019 underground, together with tree roots and species…\u201d<\/p>\n Sometimes it seems to me that like all the others, \u2018Unknown Mushrooms\u2019 are reproduced not only by rodents or hoofed animals, but also by \u2018Animals Wearing Boots\u2019…<\/p>\n Some people say: \u201cIt\u2019s better to pull out mushrooms\u201d, Myself, as an experienced collector, I follow the classical tradition\/rule of picking mushrooms \u2013 I cut them slightly above the root.<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to distinguish known mushrooms from unknown.”<\/p>\n – Andrej Polukord<\/p>\n Andrej Polukord (b. 1990) is an artist based in Vienna and Vilnius. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and co-recipient of the 2016\u00a0Kunsthalle Prize Vienna. His painting, installation, performance, and video art create unpredictable environments and absurd situations that produce double meaning and ambiguity.<\/p>\n Andrej Polukord\u2019s work was presented in GAK, Bremen, \u201320 degrees biennale, Flachau, Austria, Zach\u0119ta Project Room, Warsaw, Survival KIT, Riga and elsewhere. Polukord is also a co-founder of Galerie Uberall, a mobile art gallery that is one of the first private mobile galleries, founded in 2014. Since then it has traveled and exhibited internationally including Vienna Contemporary 2015, documenta (14), Athens, Hoftallungen | mumok, Vienna, Austria and more.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “As I\u2019ve mentioned not once in my previous interviews, besides my main activity and business (a gallerist at Galerie Uberall), I\u2019m a dedicated mushroom picker and, like the majority of gallerists, have a great passion for collecting. Currently I own quite a large collection of mushrooms consisting of specimens picked in Lithuanian forests in 2016. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,66,63,3],"tags":[10],"post_year":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegoodneighbour.lt\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_year?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand others say: \u201cIt\u2019s better to cut them\u201d.<\/p>\n