Tosca Teran
Mycelium wrangler
Toronto, Canada
Nanotopia (Tosca Terán & Andrei Gravelle) are interdisciplinary, human holobionts whose work is a confluence of art, ecology, and craft.
Tosca:
I view my research as a collaborative effort with the non-Human entities I touch, caress, grow. Having ‘minds’ of their own, current work explores sculpting forms with living mycelium, and bio-sonification. My fascination with mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) is compounded by several factors: fungi are neither plant nor animal and fungi can clean up ecological disasters.
I have found my works that incorporate realtime, nonhuman bio-sonification illicit strong emotional, empathic responses towards nonhuman organisms.
I feel one of the most dangerous diseases of humankind is often people's inability to imagine the world from another person, animal, and/or plant’s perspective. My work in nonhuman bio-sonification, fungi bio-materials; creating immersive environments strive to overcome these biases.
Sound Works: https://
www.nanotopia.net https://www.nanotopia.bandcamp.comSoundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nanotopiaInstagram: @MothAntler @nanotopia_net