{"id":104738,"date":"2025-10-20T13:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=104738"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:01:08","slug":"mexican-visual-artist-xalli-zuniga-to-speak-as-part-of-uris-fall-2025-carlson-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/mexican-visual-artist-xalli-zuniga-to-speak-as-part-of-uris-fall-2025-carlson-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican visual artist Xalli Z\u00fa\u00f1iga to speak as part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Fall 2025 Carlson Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE (10\/28\/25) <\/span>:<\/strong> Please note this event has been cancelled due to weather-related travel issues. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 20, 2025 \u2013 Building on Mexican cosmologies of nan\u00e1catl, or \u201cflesh\u201d from sacred mushrooms, Mexican visual artist, educator and researcher Xalli Z\u00fa\u00f1iga felt that fungal feminisms propose that flesh itself\u2014fleshy, earthy and spiritual\u2014can become a connective, generative ground for ecological and social regeneration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, while earning their dual doctorate degrees in art education and women, gender and sexuality studies from The Pennsylvania State University, became interested in fungi and mycelium networks\u2014which help produce mushrooms, themselves\u2014and how those could replicate different networks of care, according to 溏心vlog免费B站 Eleanor M. Carlson Visiting Assistant Professor K. Bailey Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z\u00fa\u00f1iga looks into what humans can learn from fungi about how to survive in harsh conditions\u2014particularly marginalized people who reside within neo-capitalist regimes. Z\u00fa\u00f1iga will discuss this topic, titled \u201cFungal Flesh: Toward a Carnal Feminist Mycopolitics<\/a>,\u201d in their upcoming two-day lecture event on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and Wednesday, Oct. 29<\/strong> as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies\u2019 Fall 2025 Carlson Lecture Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Oct. 28, Z\u00fa\u00f1iga will hold a painting workshop for students from 3:30-4:45 p.m. inside Room 120 of Pastore Hall, 51 Lower College Road on the Kingston Campus. On Oct. 29, Z\u00fa\u00f1iga\u2019s free public lecture will take place from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Anchor Room of the Robert J. Higgins \u201967 Welcome Center, 45 Upper College Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University\u2019s annual and expanded Carlson Public Lecture Series, funded via a $100,000 Mellon Foundation Higher Learning program grant<\/a>, is a unified series linked to courses and priority areas and encouraging campus and public dialogue on gender, sexuality, and human rights. It highlights the range of transformative political practices that counter current dehumanizing ones affecting LGBTQ+ communities in the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z\u00fa\u00f1iga\u2019s work weaves together critical ecological justice, decolonial feminist history and socially engaged art, particularly through collaborating with Indigenous mushroom foragers, environmental defenders and LGBTQ+ communities within central Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Z\u00fa\u00f1iga\u2019s lecture will develop the concept of fungal flesh as a critical response to colonial-capitalist regimes that fracture the human spirit. They will also ask how society might reimagine kinship and care through the lens of fungal metabolisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you walk and you see what they call the \u2018concrete flower,\u2019 you see where wildlife can bloom and persist in harsh conditions that you would think are impossible\u2014growing through concrete,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cCould that be something that we could in turn replicate, especially when we think about that for many people in marginalized communities? A lot of the harsh conditions they\u2019re experiencing can be somewhat mirrored by the conditions in which these fungi grow and sustain themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Art & Art History are also co-sponsoring this lecture. Registration is required due to limited space. Email bailey.thomas@uri.edu to register and visit the event\u2019s webpage<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 20, 2025 \u2013 Building on Mexican cosmologies of nan\u00e1catl, or \u201cflesh\u201d from sacred mushrooms, Mexican visual artist, educator and researcher Xalli Z\u00fa\u00f1iga felt that fungal feminisms propose that flesh itself\u2014fleshy, earthy and spiritual\u2014can become a connective, generative ground for ecological and social regeneration. Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, while earning their dual doctorate degrees in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":104739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,1913,1902],"class_list":["post-104738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-public-engagement","tag-student-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104922,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104738\/revisions\/104922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}