28, 29 July

Museo Regional de Iquique

Iquique, Chile

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Mycology is one of the greatest gaps in biological research of the century; having been recognized as an independent Kingdom of life only in 1969, fungi have been practically invisibilized, marginalized, and even ridiculed by the hegemonies of Western science. In this context of discrimination, the study of fungi emerges from dissidence as an indisputably queer discipline, since to know them it is necessary to open oneself to a disruptive, revolutionary, collective, transitional, and deeply transformative journey (Kaishian & Djoulakian, 2020). (Kaishian & Djoulakian, 2020).

In the works of our thirtieth exhibition Noᴻ-conforming_XXX at FADI 2023: Festival de Arte Disidente de Iquique (Iquique Dissident Art Festival), mushrooms show us ways of life outside of gender binaries; cooperative, alternative, promiscuous, and entangled, representing all those excluded human and more-than-human segments with a determining role in the sustainability of an interconnected existence. Mushrooms are not content with traditional systems, and neither are we.

FADI 2023, this year in its largest version, will feature dissident and neurodivergent artists from the Tarapacá Region and the Northern Zone of Chile: Arica and Parinacota; Antofagasta; Atacama; and Coquimbo. In this way, it consolidates its trajectory in the Regional Museum as a community space for exchange and mediation around the arts, cultural resistance, and dissent. From the belief in the democratic experience of interchange and smuggling of sentiments and crafts linked to art, FADI projects itself as a friendly, safe, and open environment for the community, free of trans, homo, lesbo, fat, bi, xeno, and no binaries hate.

The exhibition Noᴻ-conforming_XXX brings together works that on the one hand, invite us to de-individualize our human bodies and dilute them in a communal rhizomatic mycelium. On the other hand, to a collection of extreme resistance; mushrooms as a tool in the face of oppression, an object of justice and nourishment. And finally, the incorporation of physical languages, and post-human narratives; co-created and collectively established for ecosystemic harmony.

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Kaishian, Patricia, & Djoulakian, Hasmik (2020). The Science Underground: Mycology as a Queer Discipline. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 6(2), 1 - 26

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