Proyecto Myco Resilience Fiction. Especulaciones sobre arte, microbiología y micorrizas

Cristian Villavicencio; Mónica Garcés Ruiz

doi:10.37785/nw.v7n2.a8

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2023): JULY[DOI:10.37785/nw.v7n2]

Myco Resilience Fiction project. Speculations on art, mycology, and mycorrhizae

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Published: 2023-07-15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v7n2.a8

Keywords:

Contemporary art, art and science, technology, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), symbiosis

Cristian Villavicencio

Universidad de las Artes del Ecuador , Universidad de las Artes del Ecuador

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6505-418X

Mónica Garcés Ruiz

Catholic University of Louvain

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2658-8618

Abstract

This article makes an approach and contextualizes the relationship between art, science, and technology through a hybrid writing between these three fields, and contextualizes the Myco Resilience Fiction project as a case study. This work developed in collaboration between researchers from the laboratory of mycology from the Université catholique de Louvain and artists from the University of the Arts presents the symbiosis as a close relationship between two or more organisms, characterized by mutual benefit. The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which are obligate symbionts that need plants to fulfill their life cycle are presented here. The two-handed writing of this article also presents a form of symbiosis in the production and meditation on the project. From this point of view, it is an example of divergent writing that transcends the disciplinary format. It is proposed that the human being can learn from the interactions and exchanges for mutual benefit that occur at the microscopic level.

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Villavicencio, C., & Garcés Ruiz, M. (2023). Myco Resilience Fiction project. Speculations on art, mycology, and mycorrhizae. Nawi, 7(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v7n2.a8

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Author Biographies

Cristian Villavicencio , Universidad de las Artes del Ecuador, Universidad de las Artes del Ecuador

Cristian Villavicencio (b. Quito - Ecuador, 1984)

Artist, teacher in the University of the Arts in Guayaquil and researcher. His work, concerns with subjective processes that break the objective order of science and make it possible to speculate on our symbolic imaginary. His works have been exhibited in Ecuador in the 15th Cuenca Biennial 2021, FLACSO Center for Contemporary Art, University of the Arts, and in various museums in the Basque Country, Spain such as: the Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural Center, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the BilbaoArte Foundation. Villavicencio has participated in events such as the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (Austria) within the 10 years Interface Cultures Exhibition (2014)

He is currently carrying out his doctoral thesis on research in Contemporary Art at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where he received a predoctoral fellowship from the Department of Education of the Basque Government. In 2016, he was awarded the Basque Artist Program fellowship organized by the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao.

He has carried out artistic research residencies at Bulegoa z/b in Bilbao (2021), BilbaoArte Fundation in Bilbao (2015), York University, Sensorium Center for Digital Media Research in Toronto (2015), Interface Cultures Department of the University of Art and Design in Linz (2014) and at the MA Studio in Beijing (2012).

Mónica Garcés Ruiz, Catholic University of Louvain

Mónica Garcés Ruiz es microbióloga de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). tiene una maestría en Microbiología Aplicada a la Biotecnología Industrial (Universidad de Sevilla), y es PhD en ciencias agronómicas y bioingeniería (la Université catholique de Louvain). Durante cinco años trabajó en un laboratorio ambiental. Desde el 2013-2018, durante sus estudios de doctorado, trabajó como docente en la PUCE. Actualmente es investigadora postdoctoral en el Laboratorio de Micología de la Universidad católica de Lovaina, en donde se encuentra dedicada a investigar el funcionamiento de los hongos micorrízicos arbusculares en el área de agronomía, biorremediación y la comunicación.