MATTER OF FLUX

Welcome to the Book Launch of the new book MATTER OF FLUX. Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care published by Art Laboratory Berlin. We would be glad to celebrate with you the release of our brand new book at the Theater Hall of PA58 in Prinzenallee 58, opposite of Art Laboratory Berlin.


The publication presents a sustainable insight into the research project MATTER OF FLUX at Art Laboratory Berlin. It is a part of a group exhibition on art, body biopolitics, and feminist technoscience, as well as a network and a festival from and for international Berlin-based FLINTA* in art, science, and technology.

The book assembles essays and statements along with documentation in text and images by around 50 authors whose many fields of expertise create the polyphonic ground of MATTER OF FLUX: art, design, film making, curatorial practice, dramaturgy, music, art history, media theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, feminist history of science, microbiology, plant ecology, biotechnology, neuroscience, and physical science.

MATTER OF FLUX is a unique project that combines micro views on the cellular level with macro perspectives on more-than-human ecologies. The project is based upon the careful network creation of research hives.

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

Alanna Lynch · Alice Cannavà · Anne Hölck · Annika Haas · Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR) · Aslı Dinç · Baldeep Kaur · Cammack Lindsey · Cansu Tekin · Charmaine Poh · Chiara Garbellotto · Christian de Lutz · Constanza Piña Pardo · Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky · Ewen Chardronnet · Flo Razoux · Gülşah Mursaloğlu · Hanwen Zhang · India Mansour · Jacky Hess · Jemma Woolmore · Käthe Wenzel · Karolina Żyniewicz · Kristina Stallvik · Lena Fließbach · Lena Johanna Reisner · Lisa Bell Weisdorf · Lucy Powell · Lyndsey Walsh · Margherita Pevere · Marianna Szczygielska · Mooni Perry · Moonwen · Nayeli Vega · Nicol Rivera Aro · Nicola Maria Hochkeppel · pamela varela · Park Hye-in · Regine Rapp · Sarah Hermanutz · Selen Solak · Shu Lea Cheang · Sina Ribak · Susanne Jaschko · Susanne Schmitt · Sybille Neumeyer · Theresa Schubert · Tuçe Erel · WhiteFeather Hunter · Yan Lin.


More about the book HERE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: MATTER OF FLUX. EXHIBITION

LEAKY SYSTEMS. On Current Artistic Research about Body and Biopolitics | Regine Rapp, Tuçe Erel, Christian de Lutz

ARTISTS’ STATEMENTS
The Discomfort of the Pseudomenstruating Technoscientific Body | WhiteFeather Hunter
Self-Care | Lyndsey Walsh
Unborn0x9 | Shu Lea Cheang, Ewen Chardronnet

PART II: MATTER OF FLUX. NETWORK, FESTIVAL

RE_SITUATING KNOWLEDGES. A Conversation about Building Networks and Collectively Preparing a Festival | Tuçe Erel, Karolina Żyniewicz, Regine Rapp

CRITICAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research). Lecture Performance | Charmaine Poh, Hanwen Zhang,Park Hye-in, Mooni Perry, Yan Lin
Glitter Kitchen and Zine Making Workshop | Baldeep Kaur, Selen Solak, Marianna Szczygielska, Hanwen Zhang

LEAKY CYCLES
Clay Eating, Earthly Matters: The Reading Session, Compost Zine Lounge, Infinite Returns – A Roleplaying Game | India Mansour, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Cammack Lindsey, Sybille Neumeyer, Lena Fließbach, Cansu Tekin

ALTERNATIVE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Instant Storytelling Sessions | Anne Hölck, Nicola Maria Hochkeppel, Aslı Dinç
The Fluxional Shelf | Kristina Stallvik
Liquifying Language. Workshop | Annika Haas

TECHNOLOGIES. SENSORS. INTERFACES
Octopussyntric. Workshop, Performance | Constanza Piña Pardo, Flo Razoux, Nicol Rivera Aro, pamela varela

PLANT ENCOUNTERS. PRACTICES, SITES, COMMUNICATION
Sites of Vegetal Life. Performative Lectures | Käthe Wenzel, Susanne Schmitt, Alice Cannavà, Lisa Bell Weisdorf
MicrocosMoss. Workshop | Susanne Jaschko, Jacky Hess, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Lucy Powell
Alchemic Cooking | Chiara Garbellotto, Sina Ribak

HYDRO-RELATIONS
Vessels for Water. Workshop | Jemma Woolmore, Lena Johanna Reisner, Nayeli Vega, Sarah Hermanutz

CONJURING STENCH
Smell Workshop | Lyndsey Walsh, Alanna Lynch

VISITS
Fluid, Leaky Art Practices – A Studio Visit | Margherita Pevere, Theresa Schubert
Artist Studio Visit | Cammack Lindsey
Exhibition Visit – “t–issues of care” | Sybille Neumeyer
Lab Visit – Plant Ecologies, FU Berlin | India Mansour