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Fri, 27 September–Sat, 5 October 2024 (10 sessions)
@ 72-13, Home of T:>Works
Fri, 27 September, 7.30–10.30pm (1 session)
Sat, 28 September, 2–10pm (2 sessions)
Sun, 29 September, 2–10pm (2 sessions)
Wed, 2 October, 7.30pm (1 session/Public Lecture)
Thu, 3 October, 7.30–10.30pm (1 session)
Fri, 4 October, 7.30–10.30pm (1 session)
Sat, 5 October, 2–10pm (2 sessions)
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This Module by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez explores how insights from diverse ecosystems, particularly fungi, can inform and transform artistic collaborations and practices. By examining the behaviours of slime moulds, mushrooms, and mycelium, participants will consider concepts like multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, and decentralised methods.
Each session is framed around thought-provoking questions, encouraging exploration into decoloniality, non-linearity, biomimicry, and transformation. The twelve teachings will inspire creatives—from artists and educators to policymakers and curators—to adopt more interconnected, “fungal” ways of working and thinking.
Public audiences are invited to participate in the Public Lecture: Mycelium Teachings: Cultivating Alliances and Collaborations by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Wed, 2 October 2024, 7.30pm.
About Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is the founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising sixty art organisations across Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. The mission of the alliance is to foster relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium.
She founded and directed the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2017), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018), and the Future Materials Bank (2020); a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. She organised countless Reading Groups, Food Art Film Festivals and has been curator-in-residence, as well as writer-in-residence, in many art institutions worldwide. She is a self-proclaimed “mycophile”, interested in exploring the application of a mycological lens in defining fair models of collaboration and (self) organization. Her debut book, “Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts,” shares twelve teachings of the world of fungi. It was published by Valiz and is being translated into various languages. It was selected as one of the Best Dutch Book Designs 2023 and nominated for the Best Book Design Globally 2023.