Join us for a conversation with Raíz Symbiotisk, an artist-curator duo that teams up Emma Wood and Pamela Vázquez, as they discuss the inspiration and research behind their current Textile Center exhibition, Archive II: Regeneration. 

Thursday, November 16, 2023
6 - 7:30 pm CT
Virtual, on Zoom
Free!

Fungal lore and knowledge have been passed along since ancestral cultures. In recent years, fungi have been in the spotlight in the research and innovation of human well-being and environmental remediation with a growing realization of the existing interspecies entanglements. Raíz Symbiotisk’s curatorial motivation was to delve into this subject and research art practices in the intersection of science and technology, with a keen interest in the human, non-human, and post-human. 

Artist Bios:

Raíz Symbiotisk,  an artist-curator duo that teams up Emma Wood and Pamela Vázquez, have a symbiosis in their shared curiosity for fungi as seen from both an interdisciplinary artistic practice and from a research/archive perspective. This exhibition is the second of two exhibits in 2023, planned as part of their 2022-2023 Emerging Curators Institute’s Fellowship. 

Pamela Vázquez (she/her) is an art historian, curator, producer, and interdisciplinary artist from Mexico. Vázquez has collaborated in the production of public art events and in curatorial projects shown locally and outside the region. In 2022, she coordinated the Mexico in Minneapolis Folk Arts Residency through the Weisman Art Museum and the Arts and Cultural Affairs department of the City of Minneapolis. Since 2021, she has been part of the production team of the winter, on-ice art festival, Art Shanty Projects.

Emma Wood (they/them/hen) is a nonbinary, Swedish-American arts facilitator and interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in the intersections of mycelium and glass. Their work with ephemeral forms and bridging mediums explores temporality, identity, and connection through science and art. They were a 2021 Emerging Artist-in-Residence at Franconia Sculpture Park and an Emerging Artist-in-Residence at FOCI Minnesota Center for Glass Arts in 2021. Wood and a team of collaborators hosted an art shanty at Art Shanty Projects in 2022.).

Photos: Artwork by Julie Beeler and Lucero Paniagua Ortuño