Let’s Become Fungal!
Mycelium Teachings and the Arts
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez works as a curator and researcher and she is based in Mexico City. She founded and directed numerous international initiatives at the intersection of art and ecology, including the Green Art Lab Alliance (Asia, Latin America, and Europe), the Nature Research Department, the Van Eyck Food Lab, and the Future Materials Bank at the Jan van Eyck Academie.

There is a growing interest in fungi and mycelium as a material, the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world. The entanglements and how this rhizomatic network functions is not just a fascinating ecological system and material, but carries a profound usefulness as a metaphor for our potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviours. 

Let’s Become Fungal! takes its inspiration from the world of art and mycology and shares innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean that are rooted in multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods, and mutual dependency­—all in line with the behaviour of the mycelium.

Published by Valiz
Designed by Andrea Spikker
Illustrations by Rommy González
240 x 170 mm
336 pages
2023
Softcover
English
ISBN9789493246287