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 behavior of the mycelium.

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 behaviors.
The teachings from the fungus may inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policy-makers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, change-makers, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community-leaders, farmers, and many others, to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.

Details

Measures 24 x 17 cm
Counts 336 pages
Features softcover

Valiz x Misc Store Amsterdam

Valiz is an independent international publisher on contemporary art, theory, critique, design and urban affairs, based in the Netherlands. Their range of books offer critical reflection, interdisciplinary inspiration, and often establish a connection between cultural disciplines and socio-political questions. Valiz publishes these books from a place of commitment to their content, to artistic and social issues and to the artists, designers and authors themselves. Apart from publishing Valiz organizes lectures, debates and other cultural projects in which certain topics in contemporary art are explored.