APPARITIONS
Non Conforming XXX
Disident Art Festival, La Inclusive, Museo Regional de Iquique
Iquique, Tarapacá
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 Noᴻ-conforming_XXX appearance 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.
ARTISTS & ARTWORKS
- Hongos locales que parecen partes del cuerpo humano (2020) Juan Ferrer, Nicolás Oyarce
- Abrigo Micelio (2019) Duende Capitalista
- Mapu-Kufüll (2020) Seba Calfuqueo
- Colección única extrema (2019) Fundación Fungi
- Lengua de señas chilena para la micología (2021) Co-dirigido por Nicolás Oyarce, Nino Isensee
- Tapiz Macrohongos (2021) Juana Díaz
