The Rhizomatic Archive: Interspecies Library
The Rhizomatic Archive: Interspecies Library
Speaker: Oscar Salguero
Language: English
9AM EDT (New York) / 1PM GMT (London) (*Attendees in other time zones, please convert to your local time)
Interspecies Library is an independent archive launched in a Brooklyn apartment in 2019, as an experiment in mapping a growing, species-wide fascination with more-than-human worlds. In this lecture, founder and curator Oscar Salguero traces the story of this living archive, from informal salon-style gatherings to large-scale gallery exhibitions, original book commissions and limited editions, and, more recently, collaborations to develop an itinerant version of the library that brings these works into new environments and cross-pollinating dialogues. Today, the archive stewards over 500 volumes by international artists and independent presses, bearing witness to how the book, an ancient human technology, continues to serve as a portal for imagining and embodying shared fungal, bacterial, plant, animal, and viral futures.
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SCHEDULE
Talk (60min)
Q&A (30min)
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HIGHLIGHT
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SPEAKER BIO
Oscar Salguero is an independent curator and researcher based in Queens, NY. He is the founder of Interspecies Library, the first archive of artists' books exploring alternative interspecies futures. Salguero curated Interspecies Futures [IF] at Center for Book Arts (2021), and NEO MINERALIA at Center for Craft (2023). His latest curatorial work is Journal of Therolinguistics, an exhibition exploring the poetic study of nonhuman languages, which was presented at Descanso Gardens in California from March 25 to July 5, 2026.