Mendel Skulski

Artist in Residence

Mendel Skulski is a storyteller with the podcast Future Ecologies: a show produced on (and often about) unceded Indigenous territories across the Salish Sea.

Trained in Industrial Design, and steeped in reverence for nature’s infinite, entangled beauty, Mendel opted to devote themself to a less material form of production — that of sounds and ideas. They apply a musical ethos to narrative composition, using soundscape as an indispensable layer of communication.

Thematically, they seek to illuminate the assumptions that shape our eco-social relationships, so that we may each discover other ways of being a part of the natural world. Mendel has worked in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries and the University of Victoria. Future Ecologies has been featured on curricula at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, and Western Washington University, and has received honours from the Webby Awards and the New York Festival Radio Awards.

https://www.futureecologies.net/