Permeable Bodies
- Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering
- Online-Talk | With Mary Maggic
Permeable Bodies
- Sticking with the Trouble
- Workshop | With Mary Maggic (on-site!)
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar
PERMEABLE BODIES
- We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
- Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Explore Menopause: It Could Be the Best Time of Your Life!
- Workshop | With Nicola Hochkeppel
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Program Overview
- A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Betel Nut. A Cultural Connector among Austronesian-speaking Societies
- Lecture Performance | With Mooni Perry and Hanwen Zhang (AFSAR)
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Kristina Stallvik and Louise Mackenzie
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations
- Workshop | With Karolina Żyniewicz and Charlotte Roschka
Archive


Mind Blind Pathetic Sublime
- Online Performance Lecture
- Sarah Hermanutz
Five years since she presented the lecture-performance “Mind Blind: Therapeutic Interventions for Human/NonHuman Communications” for Transmediale | Vorspiel 2016, artist Sarah Hermanutz revisits the problems of social cognition in this time of isolation and multiple intersecting crises.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Fara Peluso and Sachiko Hirosue
Since spring 2020 Art Laboratory Berlin and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. In our 12th meeting we feature presentations by designer and bioartist Fara Peluso and Bioengineer Sachiko Hirosue
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Heather Barnett
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Heather Barnett on her art and science practice, recent collaborations in Japan, and new projects.
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VIRAL CLOUD | Berlin Tokyo
- Hybrid Arts and DIY Bio Cultures
- Walter Waldman
Since spring 2020 ALB and BioClub Tokyo have been arranging online meetings between hybrid artists and associates in our respective cities and beyond. Meeting #11 features Walter Waldman presenting his research on microplastics and ideas for cooperation across disciplines.
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Feminist SF
- Visions of M/otherhood & Reproduction
- Isabel de Sena
This event series as a live Talk Show format pays tribute to the powerful alternative images of mothering we’ve inherited through the pioneering work of feminist Sci-Fi writers, most notably regarding their defiance of conventions on (technological) reproduction.
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THE CAMILLE DIARIES Symposium
- Current Artistic Positions on M/otherhood, Life and Care
The symposium discusses current conditions of our world (environmental changes, gender aspects, biopolitics), an ‘aesthetics of care’ as the basis for inter-species coexistence. The conference brings the exhibiting artists together with researchers from the humanities and natural sciences.
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A Future for Food
- Discussion and Livestream
- Amy Youngs | Ken Rinaldo | Anna Paltseva | Daniel Lammel | Regine Rapp | Christian de Lutz
Can we break away from agricultural practices which are intimately connected to desertification, water and soil pollution, antibiotic resistance, climate change and social and economic inequalities? This discussion considers a sustainable, multispecies perspective to farming.
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Mind the Fungi
- Material Driven Design | Workshop
- Fara Peluso
Based on material driven design methodologies Fara Peluso in this workshop explores possibilities and limits of mycelium-based materials. The participants discuss and work together on growing material, building sculptures, and drawing and cutting patterns on a new material made of biofilm.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Microplastics and Coexistence | Online Workshop Discussion
- Kat Austen and Joana MacLean
Central to the discussion is the coexistence of microplastics in the environment. Approaching the plastisphere as artists, chemists and biologists, trees and bacteria, humans and particles, we will negotiate together a plan of coexistence with microplastics on this planet.
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Mind the Fungi
- Open Lab Night | Bioprocess Engineering
Scientists will give an insight into the world of lichens and their potential for new natural products is presented. Afterwards, production tools, in particular bioreactors, that are used to reproduce the lichen cultures and their valuable materials, will be presented.
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The Lumenses Project
- Florence Razoux
Artist and scientist Florence Razoux will be presenting the Lumenses Project, a series of creative initiatives that offers a new perspective on menstruation and examine how the taboo that surrounds menstruation impacts society, and especially the biomedical research.
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DIY Hack the Panke
- Science by Doing
- With students from the Gustav-Freytag Schule
The project offered the pupils of the Gustav-Freytag-Schule a wide range of events about the river Panke. Through workshops and visits the art science collective DIY Hack the Panke made it possible for students to artistically explore biology, chemistry, design and ecology.
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Symbiosis in intra-flux of the Anthropocene
- Project Presentation
- Saša Spačal
For the month of November 2019 bio media artist Saša Spačal undertook artistic research at the Rillig Group, Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin, addressing pressing societal and environmental issues such as climate crisis and plastic pollution.
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Mind the Fungi
- Walk & Talks
- Theresa Schubert and TU Berlin
In the Walk & Talks artist Theresa Schubert and biotechnologists from TU Berlin explore with public groups the potential of sustainable biomaterials from fungi in the forests of Berlin and Brandenburg. After collecting tree fungi, the public is invited to the TUB lab to cultivate them.
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Mind the Fungi
- Mushroom Cultivation Courses | TOP Lab
TOP Lab will host a mushroom cultivation course where the participants will learn how to isolate and grow mushrooms for different purposes, such as packaging materials, furniture, building materials and even leather. The course will show how to set up a culture to grow edible mushrooms.
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