LACY SOTO | DATE 5/5/2024

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and David Horvitz on 'Let's Become Fungal'

Join Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore Sunday, May 5 at 3PM in collaboration with David Horvitz’s Garden and author Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez to celebrate Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists and Mycologists with a book-signing, readings and more! 🌱🍄

This Spring, writer and curator Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is spending time with Active Cultures to germinate a mycelial network between different ecological art practices in Los Angeles and beyond. ⁠
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Long invested in fungi and mycelium as a material––the ever-branching connecting threads of the fungal world––Ostendorf-Rodríguez invests in the potential in these rhizomatic networks to function as a potent metaphor for potential new systems, ways of thinking and behaviors. Inspired by the worlds of art and mycology, her work emphasizes multispecies collaboration, symbiosis, alliances, non-monetary resource exchange, decentralization, bottom-up methods and mutual dependency—all in line with the behavior of the mycelium.

DATE: Sunday, May 5
TIME: 12 – 4 PM | Artbook Signing is at 3PM.
LOCATION: 1911 7th Ave and West Washington Blvd
IMAGES: Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Valiz; and from The Garden, courtesy of David Horvitz and Terremoto.