Join us on 25 November for and artist talk with Saša Spača talk and on 26-27
November for a Koji Workshop with artist ink Agop
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** 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.
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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.
** PANKE INTERVENTIONS
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** Koji Workshop
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** ink Agop
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Date: 26 - 27 November 2022
Time: 1:00 - 6:00 pm (both days)
Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Workshop fee: 20 EUR / 15 EUR
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our autumn series PANKE INTERVENTIONS
with various events by artists and scientists related to the river Panke.
The Koji workshop introduces the symbiotic relationship between microorganisms
and human cultural activities by demonstrating the connection between Koji
mould and food culture in Japan. Participants make rice koji using koji mould
on the first day. We will examine the process of cultivating Koji on rice and
learn about how time, temperature and humidity control its growth. In the
process of fermentation, they will learn how the enzymes produced by Koji
decompose carbohydrates into sugar.
On the second day, we will prepare miso using rice koji. Many Japanese foods
also use further fermentation processes, such as the use of lactic
acid-bacteria and yeast to further break down monosaccharides produced by Koji
into other compounds such as amino acids and alcohol. We will experience the
multiple parallel fermentation processes using koji, yeast and lactic acid
bacteria. Participants will take home the rice koji and miso they made.
ink Agop is a Japanese Photography & Videography, and Fermentation Art artist,
creating installations as well as visual arts based in Berlin. She is also a
member of the DIY Hack the Panke collective.
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PANKE INTERVENTIONS Festival is supported by BEZIRKSKULTURFONDS MITTE
** Inspired by…
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** Reading Club
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** With Guest Artists Interspecifics
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Date: Tuesday, 22 November 2022,
Time: 8 pm CET
Venue: Online (No livestream, no recording)
Moderated by Tuçe Erel
Art Laboratory Berlin is delighted to invite you to take part in our discursive
format – a reading club, curated by Tuçe Erel (next to our colloquium, curated
by Regine Rapp).
Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and
artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific
text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice
and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce.
The project follows up Tuçe Erel’s Posthumanism Reading Group, organized
between 2018-2020. After co-reading and discussing plenty of seminal texts in
two years, the club is transforming into a new discussion, presentation and
reading program, an online and offline exchange platform in a non-hierarchical
and non-institutional infrastructure in the fields of arts, science and
technology.
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Guest Artist on 22 November 2022
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Interspecifics
The sixth and last event of 2022’s Inspired by… will be an online meeting (via
zoom) hosted by Art Laboratory Berlin. In this session, Interspecifics, whose
work has been featured in the Hackers Makers Thinkers
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exhibition early this year, will be our guest artists. In this session, the
collective chose the first chapter of the Ursula K. le Guin’s The Left Hand of
Darkness and selected part of Alien phenomenology, or, what it’s like to be a
thing by Ian Bogost.
Interspecifics are an independent artistic research bureau founded in Mexico
City in 2013. They have focused their research on using sound and A.I. to
explore patterns emerging from biosignals and the morphology of living
organisms as a potential form of non-human communication, developing a
collection of experimental research tools we call Ontological Machines.
Interspecifics’ current lines of research are shifting towards exploring the
hard problem of consciousness and the close relationship between mind and
matter, where magic appears to be fundamental. Sound remains their interface to
the universe. Their work has been shaped by the Latin American context, where
precarity enables creative action and ancient technologies meet with
cutting-edge forms of production.
Interspecifics’ work has been supported by DAAD, International Cities for
Advanced Sound, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Telefonica Foundation, Bancomer BBVA
Foundation, and The National Fund for Culture and the Arts in México. Their
works have been presented at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Universitat der
Kunste Berlin in Germany. Museum of Modern art in Medellin in, Colombia.
National Council for Culture and the Arts and Museum of Contemporary art in
Chile and shown at FACT Liverpool, European Congress for Artificial
Intelligence in York, Spektrum, Acud Macht Neu, CTM Festival, and CLB in
Berlin, ICAS Festival in Dresden, Casa del Lago, Centro Cultural de España,
INDEX at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Tamayo Museum, New Music
Vancouver, Ars Electronica, and Art Laboratory Berlin, and SETI Institute.
Founders: Leslie García, Paloma López.
Members: Emmanuel Anguiano, Felipe Rebolledo, Maro Pebo, Carles Tardío, Alfredo
Lozano.
interspecifics.cc/
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