artists work
2023
Let's Become Fungal!
book trailer
video
8'44''
Collaborators:
Catalina Infante, animations and editing
Max Ferrer, sound design and music
To write her book Let’s Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, curator and researcher Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez spoke with indigenous wisdom keepers, artists, curators, feminists, and mycologists about the growing interest in fungi and the entanglements, both practical and metaphorical, that we can learn from the Fungi Kingdom.
In this video (-essay), some excerpts from the interviews that make up the 12 Fungi teachings are presented in the text. These teachings around collaboration, decoloniality, non-linearity, toxicity, biomimicry, death, and being non-binary can inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, leaders, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change agents, and many others to be more fungal in their ways of working and being.
Illustrations by
Rommy González
With appearance of
Fer Walüng
Lucía Monge
Gianine Tabija
Gabriela Flores Del Pozo
Lola Malavasi
Daniela Morales Lisac
Lina Mejía
Maria Alice Neves
Camila Marambio
Tara Rodríguez Besosa
Yina Jiménez Suriel
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Maya Errázuriz
Claudia Martínez Garay
Francisca Álvarez Sánchez
Patricia Kaishian
Giuliana Furci, Fungi Foundation
Additional footage courtesy of
Fibra Colectivo
Annalee Davis
Museo del Hongo
Special thanks to
Andrea Spikker
Daniela Montalbetti
