CRASH Talk [4pm Saturday 27 February] Infinite in-betweens – Mycology, Art and Justice

[Ariel Levi Simons]

CRASHers and the CRASH-adjacent,

We're hosting a talk on fungal ecology and art by Kaitlin Bryson.

When: Saturday 27 February, 4pm.

Where: meet.google.com/aat-bnes-poj

From the speaker:

Fungi are ubiquitous, queer organisms in our environment that create and facilitate the world around and within. This unique queendom on the tree of life blurs the boundaries of worlds defined by humans. Often, they exist and thrive within the fringes – between life and death, between singular and multiple, between sexes and identities, between the taxonomically distinguished, in harsh and impossible environments and truly beyond our understanding of time. Fungi are permeable, promiscuous and profound. In this talk, Bryson will share her knowledge of fungi discussing what she believes to be vital information for our species in the wake of our environmental, social and political disruption and how we can with these organisms to foster potentials of renewal and change.

Kaitlin Bryson is an ecological artist concerned with environmental and social justice. Her art practice and activism are focused on biological and metaphysical applications of healing, responding to the pervasive persistence of harm in the world. Bryson primarily works with fungi as resource, metaphor and collaborators for her artworks.

Bryson received an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Bryson has received support from the Lannan and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations to create ecologically, remediative artworks. In 2019, Bryson co founded The Submergence Collective with Hollis Moore.

Event link: https://blog.crashspace.org/2021/01/infinite-in-betweens-mycology-art-and-justice/

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Ariel Levi Simons