Events

Permeable Bodies

Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering
Online-Talk | With Mary Maggic

22 November 2023 (online only)

Proven through years of researching through the project Open Source Estrogen, biohacking methodologies serve far more than spreading didactic knowledge. These protocols produce an existential knowing in our bodies and environments, leading to collective strategies that may help us out of ecological ruins. The talk describes how biohacking, as a xeno-feminist practice of care, can inevitably lead to a form of world-making, where collectivities can emerge with a radical breakage from the past. Read more

Event | Workshop

Permeable Bodies

Sticking with the Trouble
Workshop | With Mary Maggic (on-site!)

26 November 2023 (on-site!) The Workshop is fully booked out.

This five-hour workshop explores the use of “stickiness” as both a practice and discourse for resistance, messiness, and alien knowledging. The “stickiness” is made from an invasive plant called Kudzu, originating from East Asia and fated for eradication if found in the West. In a series of exercises that involve scavenging, blind sensing, and cooking with stickiness, participants embrace the entangled glue that binds us to disobedient relations, no matter how hard we try to separate them. Read more

Event | Reading Club

PERMEABLE BODIES

Reading Group UNBORN0x9
Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar

18 November 2023 (online)

In context of our series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin invites to a livestream performance of the Reading group SURROGACY, which is a fork-out project of UNBORN0x9, shown in the current exhibition Matter of Flux. Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, UNBORN0x9 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making. During 2021-2022, UNBORN0x9 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics – Ultrasound, Ectogenesis, Surrogacy – the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Read more

Event | Workshop

PERMEABLE BODIES

We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi

2 - 3 December 2023

The collective 2-day experiment aims to decolonize and queer our perceptions of menstruation. Participants will be invited to share their experiences and examine the representations of menstruation and its rituals. The group will also explore how to access and make use of scientific and technological knowledge, and understand bias. We aim to challenge the capitalist agenda, reinvent ways of harvesting data from the human body, and create alternative narratives in art, biopolitics, and technology. All genders are welcome! We recommend attending both days of the workshop but attending one single day is also possible. Read more

Event | Workshop

PERMEABLE BODIES

Explore Menopause: It Could Be the Best Time of Your Life!
Workshop | With Nicola Hochkeppel

17 November 2023

With the removal of taboos, education and empowerment, it quickly becomes clear how much good menopause can do for women, our environment and the community. The workshop provides an entertaining explanation of the basic biological phases and symptoms associated with menopause and demonstrates how the change can be experienced differently. The question however, of why we still associate femininity with fertility leads directly to political issues, which will also be discussed in the workshop. Read more

Event | Series of Events

PERMEABLE BODIES

Program Overview
A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts

May - Dezember 2023

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our new series Permeable Bodies with artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around us. With reading groups, talks, workshops and podcasts we propose a net of narratives of permeability to encompass a poetic (post)natural history of being woman throughout 2023. The events discuss different notions of permeability approached through artistic, medical, sociopolitical and phenomenological perspectives. Read more

Event | Lecture Performance

PERMEABLE BODIES

Betel Nut. A Cultural Connector among Austronesian-speaking Societies
Lecture Performance | With Mooni Perry and Hanwen Zhang (AFSAR)

4 November 2023 (on-site)

In the lecture performance the artist duo Moonwen will explore the cultural and social significance of betel nut chewing among Austronesian-speaking societies in Taiwan and beyond. Drawing from their previous project Looking for Sirih (beauty), which investigated betel nut chewing culture and its sexist stigma against women selling betel nuts, Moonwen will share their ongoing research on the interconnectedness of betel nut culture and Austronesian-speaking people. Read more

Event | Colloquium

IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM

Research in Art, Science and Humanities
With Kristina Stallvik and Louise Mackenzie

17 October 2023

The Colloquium 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. Read more

Event | Workshop

PERMEABLE BODIES

Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations
Workshop | With Karolina Żyniewicz and Charlotte Roschka

14 - 15 October 2023

Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations is a two-day workshop that takes place indoors and outdoors at the Panke river. The project was developed by Karolina Żyniewicz and Charlotte Roschka and is based on the methodology of artistic research: conceptualization, sampling, and exploration. The crucial aspect of the project is building a narration based on writing, photographs, videos, sound, electromagnetic recordings, and material samples from the Panke River and Soldiner Kiez. The narrative work will be based on the contrasting activities of broadening (accumulation) and narrowing (selection). Read more

Archive

Event | Talk

Controlling_ Connectivity

Ten Years After
Artists Talk | Gretta Louw, Igor Štromajer

8 February 2022

In context of Vorspiel | transmediale 2022 Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to an online-conversation with artists Gretta Louw and Igor Štromajer based on Louw’s radical 10 day online performance at ALB in 2011, a 240-hour durational online intervention. We will now return and discuss online performance and virtual worlds.

Event | Talk

Hackers, Makers, Thinkers

Curators Talk
Regine Rapp, Tuçe Erel, Christian de Lutz, Tengal Drilon

23 January 2022

As part of “Vorspiel | transmediale” ALB welcomes you to an online talk with the curatorial team of “Hackers, Makers, Thinkers”. This year’s event series will combine Berlin based artists with artists from Latin America and Southeast Asia, proposing art making as a tool for social empowerment and knowledge acquisition, collaboration, and working together.

Event | Residency

Signs of the Times

Artist Residency
Karolina Żyniewicz

10 January - 15 February 2022

During her residency at ALB artist Karolina Żyniewicz will use the exhibition space for her new project “Signs of the Times”: After having collecting numerous masks in Berlin, the artists started to interview people and communicate with them about their individual mask experience.

Event | Talk

Under the viral shadow

Viral Geographies
Online Talk | Sybille Neumeyer, Karolina Żyniewicz

25 November 2021

The event explores the biopolitics in our current age of pandemic. The online discussion welcomes artists Sybille Neumeyer and Karolina Żyniewicz to talk about their artistic research focusing on the virus in general as well as the impact of the current pandemic in their artistic practice.

Event | Talk

Under the viral shadow

Living with the Virus
Online Talk | Caitlin Berrigan, WhiteFeather Hunter, Sebastian Cocioba

18 November 2021

As we face the prospect of the SarsCov-2 virus becoming endemic for the foreseeable future we ask what does “Living with the Virus” mean for us and individuals and as a society. We have asked three artists working at the borders of art and the life sciences to talk about how viral infection, contagion and potential cure has affected their lives and work.

Event | Talk

Paired Immunity

Art & Science Talk | Marta de Menezes & Luís Graça

30 October 2021

In the talk the artist Marta de Menezes and the scientist Luís Graça will give insights into their collaborative art-science projects, currently on show at Art Laboratory Berlin in the exhibition “Paired Immunity”. In “Immortality for Two”, they questioned the limits and understanding of their identity. In “Anti-Marta” a skin transplant was exchanged between them.

Event | Walk & Talk

DIY Hack the Panke

Walk & Talk
With members of the art science collective

31 October 2021

Members of the collective will meet for a walk along the Panke river, together with the public, to talk about their previous research on the river, its flora, fauna and ecologies. We will also give a preview of our upcoming DIY/ DIWO program for 2022.

Event | Conference, Conference

UNDER THE VIRAL SHADOW

Networks in the Age of Technoscience and Infection
International Conference (online with livestream)

9 October 2021

The online conference (with livestream) explores various networks – biological, cybernetic, and social. It will include presentations by the artists, currently on show at ALB, and guest scholars from art and media theory, biophysics, and computer science, design and culture studies.

Event | Workshop

Under the Viral Shadow

NETworkshop
Workshop | Sarah Grant & Danja Vasiliev

1 - 3 October 2021

In this 3-day workshop participants learn low-level networking using only command-line tools and network hardware. In doing so they not only grasp how to create and manipulate computer networks, but how they can be used to manipulate us.

Event | Workshop

Under the Viral Shadow

Plant-to-Plant Protocols
Workshop | Sarah Grant

24 - 26 September 2021

The workshop is an unstable network of radios and IR sensor pairs attached to plants. It is a meditation on the aesthetics of data transmission and network disruptions caused by the natural movement of plants in response to light, wind, and other natural conditions.

Event | Workshop

Under the Viral Shadow

AI for Artists
Workshop | Gene Kogan

28 August 2021

AI for Artists Workshop | Gene Kogan Gene Kogan is an artist and a programmer who is interested in generative systems, computer science, and software for creativity and self-expression. He is a collaborator within numerous open-source software projects, and gives workshops and lectures on topics at the intersection of code and art. The workshop will…

Event | Talk

Swarms, Robots and Postnature

Artist Talk | Sofia Crespo

3 June 2021

The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. As part of our online program the exhibiting artist Sofia Crespo will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.

Event | Talk

Swarms, Robots and Postnature

Artist Talk | Käthe Wenzel

20 May 2021

The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. Exhibiting artist Käthe Wenzel will give an insight in her artistic research and practice.

Event | Talk

Swarms, Robots and Postnature

Artist Talk | So Kanno

6 May 2021

The exhibition project presents research based artistic positions on swarm behaviour, questioning the traditional concept of “nature” and explores the interface of the biological and the machine. As part of our online program the exhibiting artist So Kanno gives an insight in his artistic research and practice.

Event | Talk

VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo

Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
Hideo Iwasaki and Matthias Rillig

21 February 2021

Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities. In our Meeting #13 two scientists talk about art and science collaborations.