Ultraviolet Art Talks Season 6 EP7 Audrey Rangel Aguirre
On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Audrey Rangel Aguirre in 2021 about her unique and exquisite projects.
Audrey Rangel Aguirre is an Interdisciplinary Mexican artist based in England, researching at the intersection of art and science, focusing on artistic intuition to create new systems and speculative scenarios that belong to the future of human civilisation. Currently developing the research project Terras Lux, focusing on the relation between energy on microbial microecosystems on soil and the energy on human body.
The core and intellectual structure of my project Terras Lux is the energy as electricity produced by microbial ecosystems on soil related with the energy of the human body, I present soil as a natural source of renewable energy that will be the future technology on future systems for human civilisation.
Currently creating a body of work that has been developed as the outcome of the ongoing collaboration between the artist and astrobiologist Marta Filipa Simões, exploring her current scientific research on metal nanoparticles and the emergent field of astromycology.
The collaboration has originated exciting and interesting projects as the creation of speculative materials developed with fungal resources, as well as photographic documentation, texts, experiments, digital images and has bridged the artist’s current project Terras Lux with notions of astrobiology, situating the project into a vision that connects the microscopic dimension of microorganisms on earth with the macrocosm, the vast universe and space.
The current convergence of art and science may be the key to unlock new possibilities and the development of human consciousness towards the next phase of civilisation. In my research, I allow myself to free artistic intuition in order to power and enhance scientific research with the aim of the creation of new systems that belong to the future of human civilisation, in which, with the collaboration of other beings like microbes and ecosystems, a new way of living and collaborating between all beings on Earth can be achieved, through reciprocity.
Audrey Rangel Aguirre in her own words; "I use creative intuition as a tool to create speculative scenarios that may be a possibility for our nearest future as society, and entangle it with diverse branches of science as biology, biotechnology, microbiology, energy harvesting technology, physics, philosophy and spirituality. Intuition, reciprocity and caring for others as a way for weaving politics, poetics, and consequences through contemporary art practices."
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Ultraviolet Art Talks
Created and hosted by Caren Sullivan, Ultraviolet Art Talks is a podcast/videocast series of fascinating interviews exploring the human side of artists, curators, musicians and people involved in the art scene, going strong over 4 years in its18th Season on Instagram and Facebook. More recently in Seasons 17 and 18, face to face interviews in the artists studios. You will be stepping into the fascinating inner world of creative minds, if you're passionate about the Arts, this is the place! Follow the official Instagram @_ultravioletarttalks_ to watch Seasons 17-18 episodes in the intimate space of artists studios. Motion graphics, visuals and logo created by Caren Sullivan, and executing, editing and filming by conceptual artist Jonathan Mayhew @jonathanmayhewartHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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