Episode 940: Emily Llamazales

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Recorded live during the Art Papers Symposium in Atlanta, Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Emily Llamazales to talk speculative biology, adaptive futures, and sculptural ecosystems that feel equal parts laboratory experiment and sci-fi relic.

Emily’s work merges biochemistry, ecology, and material experimentation into immersive sculptural forms that hover between organism and artifact. From translucent photo-printed fabrics to ceramic “creatures” built from invasive species logic, her practice imagines a world where mutation is survival and adaptation is aesthetic strategy.

The conversation ranges from collaborative exhibition-making and studio ecology to invasive snails, granite outcrops, and the porous boundary between science fiction and real science. Along the way: holography, grant writing, fungi, and the possibility that the future might already be quietly evolving around us.

Name Drops (with links)

• Emily Llamazales – https://www.emilyllamazales.com/
• Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/
• Brian Andrews — https://www.brianandrews.org/
• Jacob O’Kelly — (curator, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta) https://www.artsatl.org/mint-names-new-executive-director-gallery-director-opens-four-shows/
• Ben Steele — https://bensteeleart.com/
• Aaron Putt — https://aaronkaganputt.com/
• Burnaway — https://burnaway.org/
• Art Papers — https://www.artpapers.org/
• Clio Art Fair / Clio (Savannah project space) — https://www.clioartfair.com/
• Arts Capital Atlanta — https://www.artscapitalatlanta.org/
• Arabia Mountain — https://arabiaalliance.org/
• Ichetucknee Springs — https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/ichetucknee-springs-state-park
• Suwannee River — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suwannee_River
• Apple Snail (invasive species) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_snail
• Dyssodia / “diamorpha” plants (granite outcrop flora) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyssodia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedum_smallii
• Scavengers Reign (TV series) — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/
• Futurama — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/
• Adrian Tchaikovsky — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaikovsky

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Christopher Hudgens

Operations Manager at Bad at Sports

Christopher Hudgens is the Operations Manager for BaS and works in various other capacities for other organizations in the Chicago Art & Culture scene. Most recently as Business Operations Manager for the Bridge Art Fair and currently an advocate for all things art & technology.

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