The Global Centre for Climate Action presents: Mycelial Collaborations
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Join us for the second edition of our speaker series with artist and professor, Natalie Majaba Waldburger (OCAD U) and curator and author, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.
4:00-6:00pm
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4:00-6:00pm
Lecture
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The Global Centre for Climate Action (GCCA) at OCAD U presents: Mycelilal Collaborations & Explorations
A conversation between artist and professor, Natalie Majaba Waldburger (OCAD U) and curator and author, Yasmine-Ostendorf Rodriguez as part of our fall speaker series.
How can we create in mycelium ways in our artistic practices? This is a question that artist and educator Natalie Majaba Waldburger, along with curator and author Yasmine-Ostendorf Rodriguez, have been exploring. Their interdisciplinary work focuses on fostering trans-border collaborations and models of relationality in artmaking as a form of decolonial practice and an action towards social and climate justice.
Both have led a breadth of mycelial exploration. A self-proclaimed mycophile, Yasmine established the Green Art Lab Alliance, a global network that embodies 'mycelial' ways of organizing and being, led research for her book, Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, which highlights artists and organizations that work in mycelilal ways, and co-created the Future Materials Bank, an open-source resource on materials that promotes the transition to more sustainable artistic practice.
Natalie, on the other hand, has examined the mycelium and mushrooms as a living material and metaphor to explore human movement and migration narratives, resulting in a series of installations and performances.
Join us for an intimate virtual conversation and knowledge exchange where Natalie and Yasmine will share their creative processes, insights, and learnings on applying mycelial thinking to artistic collaboration and practice and why they believe it is important to the work of climate action.
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