NEO MINERALIA Library with Oscar Salguero
Neo Mineralia Library
with Oscar Salguero
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, March 15th, 7 pm ET
Join us for a dynamic conversation on geology, deep time, and alternative interspecies possibilities with Oscar Salguero. As an independent curator, researcher, and archivist, Oscar will share insights from his recent exhibition NEO MINERALIA which presents a selection of new geological specimens crafted by ten international artists. The featured works, stemming from places as varied as Mexico, Japan, Poland, and Australia (including a curated artists’ books library), collectively signal a new era of planetary and geological consciousness where we are asked to read, feel, and listen to rocks in new ways. NEO MINERALIA suggests that recent rock formations no longer fit within the traditional groups: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary. Instead, the Anthropocene, the era of human influence on the climate and environment, has introduced two post-natural rocks: Synthetic and Digital.
Oscar will also be sharing insights from the Interspecies Library, the first archive dedicated to the curation and advancement of artists’ books focused on alternative interspecies possibilities.
Together we will explore the unique and powerful roles that exhibitions, books, and libraries can play in shifting cultural perspectives by helping deepen respect and understanding for the more-than-human worlds.
Oscar Salguero is an independent curator, researcher, and archivist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including a presentation during Stockholm Design Week 2020, as part of non:agency’s The Age of Entanglements. As a curator, Salguero is a fellow of SixtyEight Art Institute’s The Curatorial Thing 2020 Edition, for which he received the Danish Arts Foundation’s International Visual Arts Funding Grant. In Spring 2021, Salguero curated Interspecies Futures [IF] at the Center for Book Arts, NY. The show marked the first survey of bookworks by emerging artists working at the intersection of speculative fiction and new interspecies possibilities. Salguero is the founder of Interspecies Library and is the author of the Symbiocene Anthology, a series of artists’ book reviews published online via Future Based.
