A Mycelial Residency: Reading List
Video by Museo del Hongo for Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts.
Multispecies
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) by Donna J. Haraway
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (2012) by Vinciane Despret
Non-linear Time
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (2023) by Jenny Odell
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (2018) by Federico Campagna
Poetics of Relation (1990) by Édouard Glissant
We Will be Jaguars (2024) by Nemonte Nenquimo
Ethics
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (2021) by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
The Need for Roots (1949) by Simone Weil
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (2016) by Alexis Shotwell
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert (2024) by Sunaura Taylor
Sensorial
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (1996) by David Abram
Quantum Listening (2022) by Pauline Oliveros
John Cage: A Mycological Foray (2019) by John Cage
The Mushroom Color Atlas: A Guide to Dyes and Pigments Made from Fungi (2014) by Julie Beeler
Courtesy of Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez.
Cosmologies
The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (2010) by Davi Kopenawa
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2019) by Ailton Krenak
Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (2016) by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
A World of Many Worlds (2018) by Marisol de la Cadena
Decolonial
Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourse (2019) by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Unpayable Debt (2022) by Denise Ferreira da Silva
White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (2016) by Gloria Wekker
Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2019) by Malcom Ferdinand
Fungi Worlds
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015) by Anna Tsing
The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning (2019) by Litt Woon Long
Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing & Working With Fungi (2016) by Peter McCoy
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (2021) by Doug Bierend
About the Artist
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is a curator, writer, and researcher working at the intersection of art and ecology. She is the founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance (established in 2012); a network comprising seventy art organizations across Europe, Latin America, the United States, Canada and Asia and of the Future Materials Bank; a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. The mission of both is to foster relationships and knowledge exchange that contributes to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium. She is a self-proclaimed mycophile, interested in exploring the application of a mycological lens in defining fair models of collaboration and (self) organization. Her debut book, Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, came out in 2023 and is being translated in over five languages. After a year long of conducting workshops based on the book, all the learnings and further thoughts were brought together in a deck of Oracle Cards, weaving together Yasmine’s many encounters from fungi-enthusiasts in Asia, Latin-America, Europe and the Caribbean.