Join us on 8 November for In Progress... | Colloquium with Saša Spačal and
Joana MacLean, 12 November for Fara Peluso's Algature workshop.
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** IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
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** Research in Art, Science and Humanities
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** With Saša Spačal and Joana MacLean
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Date: Tuesday, 8 November 2022,
Time: 8 pm CET
Online (No livestream, no recording)
Art Laboratory Berlin is delighted to invite you to take part in our discursive
format – a colloquium on research in art, science and humanities, curated by
Regine Rapp (in conjunction with our Reading Club, curated by Tuçe Erel).
The Colloquium (on 8 November it will be entirely online) addresses an
international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past,
present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from
the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art
project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab
experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.
The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress.
Methodological approaches – theoretical or practical – are also of great
interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical
inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the
original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a
platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are
often not seen or talked about.
Structure of the sessions: Each session will include two presentations followed
by discussions, altogether 90 min. The colloquium welcomes informal
conversations amongst the participants.
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Speakers on 8 November Session
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Saša Spačal
In the Colloquium Saša Spačal will talk about her ongoing research project
Terra Xenobiotica that she is currying out during her current residency at Art
Laboratory Berlin and at the lab of the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Freie
Universität Berlin. Terra Xenobiotica is an exploration into a dark alterity of
soil ecology, an umwelt of its own, where mineral and organic agents entangle
as strangers, but decompose into oneness of the ground that carries biological
life in the Zone.
Saša Spačal is an artist working at the intersection of living systems
research, contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on the
development of technological interfaces and relations with organic and mineral
soil agents while trying to address the posthuman situation, that involves
mechanical, digital and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and
necropolitics. Her work was internationally exhibited, awarded and performed
at, to name only a few, Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Transmediale Festival
(DE), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens
(GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Art Laboratory Berlin
(DE). In October and November 2022 Spačal will do artistic research at the
Rillig Lab, curatorially accompanied by Art Laboratory Berlin.
www.agapea.si
Joana MacLean
In the Colloquium she will talk about her PhD progress in the plastisphere and
the methods she has used to approach the topic. Joana MacLean has spent her
past years studying microbial communities in plastic polluted grounds, a
process that does not only involve scientific practice but also the nurturing
of a topic within her personal space as human, woman and researcher.
Joana MacLean is a microbiologist interested in future ecologies and areas of
research that allow to involve other speculative methodologies. As a PhD
student at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, she is currently working on
microbial communities in anthropogenic landscapes and plastic polluted grounds.
Her current artistic and biological research focuses on Plastic as a
neo-geological material and as (micro)biological habitat for bacteria and fungi.
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** PANKE INTERVENTIONS
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** Algature
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** Workshop | Fara Peluso
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Date: 12 November 2022
Time: 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue: Art laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Workshop fee: 20 EUR / 15 EUR (includes material for bioreactor)
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our autumn series PANKE INTERVENTIONS
with various events by artists and scientists related to the river Panke.
Can daily spaces be designed to house living machines, as an action to merge
and connect different ecosystems by reducing the distance between the human and
nonhuman spheres?
The workshop supports this action connecting practices of DIY biology with art
and design, encouraging participants to learn about science and discovering how
powerful the transdisciplinary approach can be. Through a participatory format,
the audience from different backgrounds are involved in an immersive experience
with algae’s ecology, a DIY photo-bioreactor prototyping and a discussion on
speculative practice focused on raising more awarenesse about daily habits. By
considering a new way of approaching living organisms Algature will question
how closeness to them can give economic, political and artistic contributions.
The introduction to the speculative design combined with the DIY methodology
will be an occasion to study some objects and, by stimulating critical issues,
it will help to define a new possible generation of tools.
Through her workshop Peluso wants to show how practices of caring and
resilience from nature are ecofeminist actions aimed to repair the ecological
disaster of the culture of capitalism by contributing to build new models,
supporting species and maintaining biodiversity.
Artist designer Fara Peluso‘s long-term research focuses on potential uses for
algae as an environmental regulator, source for sustainable materials, and
aesthetic catalyser of biophilia. Her research and practice combine working
with biotechnologists and DIY scientists with speculative and critical design
to produce a myriad of innovative design and artistic solutions.
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PANKE INTERVENTIONS Festival is supported by BEZIRKSKULTURFONDS MITTE
** TERRA XENOBIOTICA OR HOW TO BELONG
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** Artist Talk | Saša Spačal
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Date: 25 November 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Donations are welcome.
Please register here: [email protected]
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Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to an Artist Talk with bio media artist Saša
Spačal where she will speak about her currently evolving new artistic research
project. During the months of October and November 2022 the artist undertakes
artistic research for her new project Terra Xenobiotica or How to Belong at the
lab of the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, Freie
Universtität Berlin and at Art Laboratory Berlin.
“Terra Xenobiotica is an exploration into a dark alterity of soil ecology, an
umwelt of its own, where mineral and organic agents entangle as strangers, but
decompose into oneness of the ground that carries biological life in the Zone.
During the residency temporal aspects of xenobiotic substances and metabolisms
will be sampled, researched and observed in the vicinity of airports. On the
nodes of planetary aviation networks, traces of human grounding and ungrounding
will be materially examined to reveal how foreign substances perform gradual
belonging.” (Saša Spačal)
Spačal’s projects employ “fascinating biotechnological strategies that enable
the physical experience of immersion and the philosophical experience of
interconnectedness and networking”, reflects Regine Rapp in her essay Saša
Spačal. Symbioses and Planetary Interconnections. “Without ever losing the
artistic value of aesthetic experience, Spačal uses current scientific
knowledge and laboratory practices of biology – especially microbiology and
mycology, the science of fungi. In doing so, she creates particular encounters
mediated through non-linguistic forms of perception and exchange – acoustic,
electronic and metabolic. The artistic results offer a new repertoire for
accessing the world anew in its symbiotic complexity.” (Rapp, R. (2022) ‘Saša
Spačal. Symbiosen und planetarische Verflechtungen’, Kunstforum International,
281, p. 116
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Saša Spačal (www.agapea.si
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) is an artist working at the intersection of living systems research,
contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on the development of
technological interfaces and relations with organic and mineral soil agents
while trying to address the posthuman situation, that involves mechanical,
digital and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics.
Her work was internationally exhibited and performed: Ars Electronica Festival
(AT), Prix Cube Exhibition (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Athens Digital
Arts Festival (GR), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural
Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Cynetart Festival (DE), National
Art Museum of China (CHN), DaVinci Festival (KR), Museum of Contemporary Art
Metelkova (SI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Device_art Festival (CRO), Extravagant
Bodies Festival (CRO), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art
Vojvodina (SRB), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sonica Festival (SI). She was
awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, nominated for the Prix Cube
and the New Technological Art Award.
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