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First archive dedicated to the curation & advancement of artists’ books exploring alternative interspecies futures. Est. 2019 by @softcoreny

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Journal of Therolinguistics is now live at @descansogardens

This spring, the Boddy House at Descanso Gardens transforms into a living research center exploring the concept of non-human languages in nature through works by eight international artists.

Curated by Oscar Salguero, the exhibition Journal of Therolinguistics explores communication across species as acts of ecological kinship and fascination.

The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in the expressive worlds of plants and animals. Experience birdsong as multicolor landscapes, deep listening sessions with plants, lichen bodies as ancient grammar, the worldbuilding narratives of beavers, bat and flower pollination role-play, and hidden messages carried in Amazonian trees or beetle-carved branches from Swiss forests.

Therolinguistics, a term coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1974, refers to a fictional field focused on understanding languages beyond the human.

Le Guin’s provocation remains urgent: rather than approaching communication in other species through human rules and limitations, the exhibition asks what it means to listen, learn, and encounter their worlds on their own terms.

Journal of Therolinguistics features international artists Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė (@aiste_ambrazeviciute), Alice Bucknell (@alicebucknell), Audax M. Gawler (@audax__audax) & Pri Bertucci (@pribertucci_o_profeta_queer), Lucio Arese (@lucioarese), Marianne Hoffmeister Castro (@marianne.hoffmeister), Nicole Brugger (@nclbrggr), and Paige Emery (@paigeemery_). Together, their research explores the moving messages that plants and animals leave for us and how human actions affect their worlds.

The exhibition and its programs are generously funded, in part, by Perenchio Foundation and an endowment from Heather Sturt Haaga and Paul G. Haaga, Jr. The title of the exhibition is used with the kind permission of the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust.

The exhibition is open at the Boddy House from March 21–July 5, 2026, 10am–4pm daily. Entry to the Boddy House is included in the price of admission or membership.

Graphic design by @darius_ou by @interspecieslibrary

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I’m thrilled to announce that my newest curatorial project, Journal of Therolinguistics, at Descanso Gardens (@descansogardens) opens to the public this Saturday.
Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin story “The Author of the Acacia Seeds and other Extracts from The Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics”, the exhibition explores interspecies communication within tree ecologies, focusing on plants, lichen, beavers, birds, bats, beetles, and more.
Featuring works by Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė (@aiste_ambrazeviciute), Alice Bucknell (@alicebucknell), Lucio Arese (@lucioarese), Marianne Hoffmeister Castro (@marianne.hoffmeister), Nicole Brugger (@nclbrggr), as well as new commissions by Paige Emery (@paigeemery_) and Audax M. Gawler (@audax__audax) & Pri Bertucci (@pribertucci_o_profeta_queer)

If you’re in LA, please join us for the opening reception this Friday, March 20, from 5–7pm at the Boddy House at Descanso Gardens!

More details coming up!
Graphics by Darius Ou @darius_ou taken in Descanso Gardens by @interspecieslibrary

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˚₊· 𓄂 You‘re warmly invited to join us.·₊˚

Spinal Memory is an online lecture series exploring the entangled lives of humans and non-human animals across art, literature, film and archives. Happening on Zoom, Oct 10 – Nov 8.

See full schedule ↑
@victoria.peemot @wantaneesiripattananuntakul @terezie.stindlova @robert_zhao @interspecieslibrary @hsu__che_yu @chen_wanyin @shashuang_suswo Boria Sax w/@shiruoyishi

Your ticket gets you:
∗ A 1.5-hour live lecture with Q&A
∗ A replay link, valid for one month
∗ The Digital Reading Room: readings and moving-image material shared by the speakers

♡ Suggested price: $10 ♡ We need your support
RSVP via link in bio or scan the QR code in the last image
More info at lectures.te-editions.com

. . ˚˚. 𓃠 𓃰 𓃱 𓃦 ..
Beautifully designed by @kayzeng777 by @interspecieslibrary

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What if a book could unfold into conversations? 𝚂𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝙼𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢, the fourth issue of te magazine, began as a reflection on how we imagine non-human animals: how humans control, domesticate, and make use of animal bodies, and how we might sketch a relationship not yet fixed in form, one still reaching toward the future. As an extension of the issue, we are launching our first online lecture series, from Oct 10 to Nov 8!

𓇻 RSVP Needed
𓇻 8 Online (ZOOM) Lectures by
@victoria.peemot
@wantaneesiripattananuntakul
@terezie.stindlova (@zooindex)
Boria Sax @shiruoyishi
@robert_zhao
@softcoreny (@interspecieslibrary)
@hsu__che_yu @chen_wanyin
@shashuang_suswo

Each speaker comes to the theme by a different path: years of companionship and patient field observation, or history, design, writing, moving image, archives, and data. How might we approach, investigate, or simply imagine what it means to live alongside non-human animals? And how does that become practice and research? Moving between text and practice, each speaker opens up their own way of working, sometimes out in the open landscapes of pasture and forest, sometimes back at a worktable or in an archive.

𓇻 Swipe → for the full schedule
𓇻 More info see lectures.te-editions.com ↔ link in bio
中国读者，请留意近期te的公众号！

Web Design & Visual @kayzeng777 by @interspecieslibrary

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https://zineassembly.interspecieslibrary.com

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This summer, @nonhuman.teachers invited us to share the Interspecies Library: Zine Assembly [ILZA]. It will be out for its final event of the season at HORT/CULTURE 2026 tonight in NYC, 9.23.26 from 7-9 PM.

This zine library was built through many hands and much generosity over the last year and some change. Grateful to @interspecieslibrary for your trust, and to a team of my favorite people @3000000000am, @freeparking, Kenia Viezcas, @bluesprucewanderings, Joe Valle and everyone who has helped carry ILZA into being.

The website is now live with upcoming fall dates!
Website by @panchoblood + @3000000000am by @interspecieslibrary

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The Metabolic Guide to Space Survival book goes to NY!

I’m very happy to share that The Metabolic Guide to Space Survival book is now part of the @interspecieslibrary curated by Oscar Salguero @softcoreny

The book will have its first show as part of the collection this Saturday, 19th September at @cueart in New York

Interspecies Library is the first archive dedicated to the curation and advancement of artists’ books focused on alternative interspecies futures. The growing collection aspires to reflect our changing attitudes and acknowledgment of more-than-human worlds. by @interspecieslibrary

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our next NYC event will be the last chance to check out the amazing Interspecies Library Zine Assembly pop-up structure

Habitat Loss: Eric Sanderson + Legs McNeil
September 23rd, 7PM - 10PM
9 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002

come early to imbibe and peruse

FIND NONHUMAN TEACHERS! by @interspecieslibrary

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Join us at CUE on Saturday, 9/19, the eve of Climate Week NYC, for a day of curated selects with Interspecies Library (@interspecieslibrary). ✨

Founder Oscar Salguero (@softcoreny) will bring a selection of artists’ books to CUE, and visitors are invited to browse, chat, and hang out in the gallery. The selection explores speculative geological, oceanic, vegetal, and animal relationships, in conversation with the themes and concepts of Mari Nagem’s (@mari_nagem) solo show, “The Tropics, The Moon, and Mars.”

At 5 pm, join us for a presentation and happy hour, during which Salguero will share more about the library and the curated selection.

Interspecies Library is the first archive dedicated to the curation and advancement of artists’ books focused on alternative interspecies futures. The growing collection aspires to reflect our changing attitudes toward and in acknowledgment of more-than-human worlds.

All are welcome to come and go throughout the day. RSVP is appreciated but not required; see link in bio.

(And come back on 9/22 for Space Meal with @tessitanyc during the final week of the show!)

📸: @ng.nyc taken in CUE Art Foundation by @interspecieslibrary

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Artwork Catalogue design for 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 exhibition at @descansogardens, curated by @softcoreny based on @ursulakleguin's short story.

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𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛-𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙𝚜

On the topic of relatedness, the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 has benefited not only from interspecies collaboration, but also from the generosity of related publications. In 1983, the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 ceased publication due to a lack of funding for the Association’s endeavours, compounded by an accident involving its in-house rotary press.

The 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 subsequently turned to 𝘊𝘰𝘌𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺, a sister publication exploring alternative ecological futures, to co-publish its findings. This relationship allowed the Association to focus its resources on groundwork and discovery while continuing to disseminate its findings through the 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺’s wider readership, eventually contributing to renewed funding in the decades that followed.

In 2026, 43 years after publication ceased, the decision was made to relaunch the printed edition of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. For the relaunched 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, the Department of Human Communications’ design team developed its layout and typesetting in reference to 𝘊𝘰𝘌𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺, retaining its dual-column grid as a reminder of this shared history. The columns are then interjected with house-style centralised text blocks that intricately wrap around one another, bringing two different typographic sensibilities into relation, each working with and around the other.

The resulting typographic layout reflects not only the interspecies relationships (at the heart of therolinguistics) 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, but also the inter-publication kinship that sustained the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 across 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.

Relativity taught us to think of 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 as inseparable. What we learned from therolinguistics is relatedness: to relate is to hold 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 and 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 together.

𝙶. 𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝
𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚛 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝,
𝙰𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚜
#therolinguistics taken in Descanso Gardens by @interspecieslibrary

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Journal of Therolinguistics featured in Library of America @libraryofamerica this past August 6.

“In Le Guin’s lore, the Journal of Therolinguistics ceased publication in 1983, following cutbacks in government research funding and the malfeasance of certain editors. But Salguero and his fellow devotees of this recondite field are bringing it back, inviting us nonexperts to bask in the glories of “Weasel murder mysteries, or Batrachian erotica, or the tunnel sagas of the earthworm.” by @interspecieslibrary

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