"Grafting is a term used in horticultural practice to enable two different plants, even two different species to fuse together. Taking this age long practice as a starting point, alongside embedding and symbiotic inhabitation, how and to what end can these processes be models of collaborative working, intentionally bridging between works and practices?" Join artist, writer and dear DAI alumn 2021, current DAI Coop tutor Harun Morrison for his public talk "Symbiotic inhabitation, Embedding and Grafting" in Amsterdam, to be presented at DAS theatre. OPEN TO ALL. Thursday 29 January at 6.30pm.
The symbiotic in biological terms is a closeconnection between different types of organisms in which they live together and benefit from each other. Heinrich Anton de Bary, defines symbiosis as ‘the living together of unlike organisms’. Although in some definitions of symbiotic, it's a parent category of behaviour that might include parasitic alongside two other typical categories: (1) mutualistic and (2) commensalist. The former being mutually beneficial, whereas in commensalist (2) one species benefits and the other is unaffected.) Embedding, which we can loosely define as one structure implanted in another, can be a video within a video as practiced in reaction videos and by streamers or a physical object. Grafting is a term used in horticultural practice to enable two different plants, even two different species to fuse together. Taking this age long practice as a starting point, alongside embedding and symbiotic inhabitation, how and to what end can these processes be models of collaborative working, intentionally bridging between works and practices?
About Harun Morrison
Thursday 29 January 2026, 18:30 - 20:00 hrs.
Free to attend, link here: https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/theatre-programmes/das-theatre/news/event/2026/1/29/a-talk-with-harun-morrison-symbiotic-inhabitation-embedding-and-grafting/