Encounters: Tosca Terán and Robyn Wilcox

Tosca Terán Testing touch-plates & electrodes for Angophra costata bio-sonification, various synthesizers. October 2019. Photo: Graeme Wienand.

Encounters: Tosca Terán and Robyn Wilcox, was a conversation about craft, art and design, bio-materials and Myco-materials that took place in June 2021.

My work since living in Canada has grown more ecologically minded, feminist bent (though, perhaps occult). Considering how humanity impacts the shared environment. How society is an invasive species, some perhaps more than others. There have been moments, too, where I’ve embraced more of my Latinx roots and explored how religion, in my opinion, can infect, corrupt and destroy beauty. — Tosca Terán

Watch the full panel, moderated by Studio editor in chief Nehal El-Hadi:
https://vimeo.com/569541163

 Tosca Terán describes herself as a Latinx-feminist and bio-artist exploring the intersections between art, biology and technology. Terán was raised in California by two imaginative parents: her mother was a jack-of-all-trades, with interests in sewing, ceramics, toy-making and horticulture, and her father an “audiophile,” with a contagious interest in sound. Fascinated by the world around her from a young age, she had always been encouraged to make use of the wonders within her imagination. Drawing influence from her parents, Terán’s work reflects her unconventionally eclectic and diverse upbringing.

Robyn Wilcox is a Toronto-based curator and administrator working at the intersection of craft, art and design. She is the Head of Programming at DesignTO and the Curator at Craft Ontario.