The Art & Fungi Project is a series of artistic projects led by Willoughby Arévalo and Isabelle Kirouac. These projects provide sensory and playful experiences in relation to fungi and how they shape and connect our world, growing the interconnections between communities, the land, and its more than human inhabitants.
The land informs our bodies, and our bodies inform the land. We strive to emulate the fungi, whose mycelia create vast underground networks, which interconnect beings across their ecosystems to facilitate communication and exchange. Through creating art that emerges from our encounters with fungal life, we strive to be active participants in our ecosystem, learning, listening, and responding to it.
This project arose as an intersection between the work of choreographer and educator Isabelle Kirouac, and mycologist, visual artist and kitchen wizard Willoughby Arévalo. Together, they have been exploring the relationships between art and fungal life for over a decade.
Isabelle Kirouac 