IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Kristina Stallvik and Louise Mackenzie
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
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
Event | Talk
ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
- Artist Talk
- With HyungJun Park
In the framework of the exhibition ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code, the artist HyungJun Park and the co-curator Tuçe Erel talk about the exhibition. The conversation will take place on 8 October 2023 at 1 pm CET and will be live-streamed over Art Laboratory Berlin’s YouTube Channel. The exhibition ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code brings together three artworks of HyungJun Park. As a closing event of the exhibition, the artist shares the process and background story about the ongoing research project Somniloquy. Read more
Event | Book Release Party, Talk
Exploring the Visual
- Zine Launch, Reading, and Curatorial Tour
- With Kristina Stallvik, Li Yang, Kennith Rosario, Lebogang Mokoena, and Hana Peoples | VENUE: alpha nova & galerie futura
Under the auspices of the Alexander-von-Humboldt (AvH) German Chancellor Fellowship and organised by Art Laboratory Berlin und alpha nova & galeria futura, the collaborative project “Exploring the Visual” opens a critical dialogue on researching the visual within the fields of contemporary art, filmmaking, journalism, and independent publishing. Join a small cohort of AvH research fellows in celebrating the launch of their new zine publication, the result of a co-creative zine workshop exploring themes of the visual through diverse research perspectives on migration, ecology, motherhood, and more. Fellow and curator Li Yang will also give a tour of alpha nova’s current show “I Made You to Find Me”. Read more
Event | Series of Events
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Program Overview
- A Series of Reading Groups, Talks, Workshops and Podcasts
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 | Open Call
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar
This is an OPEN CALL: In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin launches a series of online reading groups as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 shown in the exhibition Matter of Flux. The third Reading Group SURROGACY will be lead by Dr Anindita Majumdar.
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. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern.
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Event | Workshop
Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code
- Workshop | With HyungJun Park and Juha Lee
In the framework of the exhibition ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code, the artist HyungJun Park and the co-curator Juha Lee lead one-to-one workshop sessions with participants who signed up for dedicated slots on 23 and 24 September 2023. In relation to artificial intelligence and the unconscious, which are the themes of Park’s artwork Somniloquy (Sleep Talk) the participants and the artist talk about dreams. If you would like to join with a friend, family member or partner, please mention this in the notes section. Read more
Event | Workshop
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Hydrofeminist Ecologies
- Workshop | With Sarah Hermanutz, Fara Peluso, India Mansour
Together the artist Sarah Hermanutz, the designer Fara Peluso and the biologist India Mansour continue their ongoing research collaborations along the Panke River, with an introduction to ecofeminism and hydrofeminism as both academic theories and as lived artistic and scientific practice. Flowing together formats of reading groups, meditative sensory experience, DIY and traditional methods of scientific inquiry, and discussions both affirmative and critical, this workshop invites fluid practices of connection and care between and beyond humans, ‘staying with the trouble’ in laboratory practice with algae. Read more
Event | Colloquium
IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Helena Nikonole and Lucy Ojomoko
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 | Talk
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Arts of Vulnerability
- Artist Talk | With Margherita Pevere
What does it mean to be vulnerable — and what may leaks tell us about bodies and environments in posthuman terms? Dr Margherita Pevere has addressed these questions through bioart and performance. Ash, slugs, cellulose-producing bacteria, bioreagents, drawing, writing: diverse materials constellate her artistic research and come together in celebration of leaky matters and relations. Alongside discussing the artworks Wombs and Lament, the artist will guide us though a nuanced discussion in feminist and queer terms about materiality, vulnerability, and the entanglements of life and death. What emerges are two concepts — ‘arts of vulnerability’ and ‘poetics of uncontainability’ — which, while coming from the arts, may have something to say about these very unstable times. Read more
Event | Reading Club
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group ULTRASOUND, with Julie Roberts
In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin invites to a livestream performance of the Reading group ULTRASOUND, 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 | Talk
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Self-Care
- Artist Talk with Lyndsey Walsh
Self-Care is Lyndsey Walsh’s artistic attempt to reckon with ruptures in their identity caused by the rising use of genetic diagnostics in medicine. Using Lyndsey’s own body, Self-Care weaves a narrative about health, gender, and identity that seeks to resist the confines of the medical gaze. This talk will explore the larger body of research that has given way to Lyndsey’s artwork. Self-Care’s name emerges as a critique of the popularizing role of individual responsibility for health in preventative medicine, which has led to individual choices being depicted either as acts of heroics or offenses to the sanctity of health. Read more
Event | Festival, Festival
MATTER OF FLUX
- Festival
- Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
The 4-day festival MATTER OF FLUX presented a rich and varied program from and for women/ FLINTA* in art, science and technology with panel discussions, lecture performances, numerous workshops, reading groups and other activities, including artist studio and lab visits. The festival was generously supported by Kunstfonds’ program Neustart Kultur and is in cooperation with FEMeeting. The multifaceted formats and events of the festival program were based on the rich outcome of several preparatory meetings earlier in 2023 with more than 40 international Berlin-based women/ FLINTA* – artists, scholars from sciences and humanities and cultural producers from both the Global North and the Global South. Please have a look at the program and many pictures of the festival. Read more
Event | CLUB Night
MATTER OF FLUX
- CLUB Night
- With the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC Collective and DJ Sets by Mieko Suzuki & Baby Vulture (a.k.a. Daniela Huerta)
Art Laboratory Berlin hosts the MATTER OF FLUX_CLUB Night at Panke Club during the Matter of Flux Festival (15 – 18 June 2023). The women FLINTA* only party starts with the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC performance, which is based on a 2-day long workshop of the same title that will have taken place on 15 and 16 June 2023 at the MATTER OF FLUX Festival. OCTOPUSSYNTRIC is a theoretical and practical laboratory to develop an electronic device that enables the participants to interconnect with each other and expand their sensorial abilities through electro-symbiosis. After the performance, Mieko Suzuki and Baby Vulture (a.k.a Daniela Huerta) will take over the DJ deck throughout the night. Mieko Suzuki is a sound artist, composer and DJ born in Hiroshima and based in Berlin. She deals with time and space as her primal matter. Born in Mexico, Daniela Huerta is a multimedia artist and sound designer based in Berlin. She has developed her own multi-layered and eclectic form of DJing under the moniker Baby Vulture. Read more
Event | Reading Club
PERMEABLE BODIES
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance | Reading Group ECTOGENESIS, with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
In context of our new series PERMEABLE BODIES, Art Laboratory Berlin invites to a livestream performance of the Reading group ECTOGENESIS, 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. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern. Read more
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Archive
Nonhuman Subjectivities
- Living Systems | Aquatic Systems
- Robertina Šebjanič, Kat Austen, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz
In this seminar we want to invite you to theoretically explore these and other aspects about artistic and scientific methodologies on interspecies empathy and human-nonhuman companionship.
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Bio & Beers
- with Biotinkering e.V.
- Dr. Mirela Alister, Rüdiger Trojok, Alessandro Volpato and Biotinkering e.V.
The Bio & Beers format is for everyone: we start with a 20 minutes presentation, followed by discussions while having beers. In addition there will be occasional DIY workshops!
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Nonhuman Subjectivities
- Interdisciplinary Dialogs in the Sciences and Humanities
- Antonia Ulrich and Marie Neuwald
For the closing event of the exhibition On Animals. Cognition, Senses, Play we are pleased to invite you to an interdisciplinary dialog with philosopher Antonia Ulrich and Marie Neuwald from NABU.
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There be Dragons
- Human Impact on the environmentally sensitive Galapagos and Lord Howe Islands
- Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
In the Age of the Anthropocene, this talk will explore how humans impact on our world both by their presence and indirectly by their lifestyle. This is a science-art investigation of tourism and its effects on closed eco systems.
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Nonhuman Subjectivities
- 1000 Handshakes
- François-Joseph Lapointe
As part of the opening of the 2016 transmediale festival of art & digital culture at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Art Laboratory Berlin will present the performance 1000 Handshakes by and with François-Joseph Lapointe.
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SciArt Café
- with Berlin iGEM team
The iGEM Berlin team (http://igem.berlin/) presents their fourth SciArt Café. Under the main theme of “Programming Life – Good Code/ Bad Code?” we will hear scientists and artists working with bioscience and afterwards discuss topics of synthetic biology.
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Art Science Swap
- Two Heads Are Better than One
- Nenad Popov
Participants of the workshop are divided in the pairs of one artist and one scientist. Each pair will receive a problem to think about, each using their own method. That is the easy part. Then they are asked to switch roles.
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Mind Blind
- Therapeutic Interventions for Human/Nonhuman Communications
- Sarah Hermanutz
In her performance-lecture Sarah Hermanutz draws upon methods and aesthetics of academic lectures and psychological testing/treatment to engage with the gaps and pains of cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer.
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Plan Bienen
- A project by
- Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan
With Plan Bienen the artists attempt to make real and speculative connections between two parallel crises – one within European economic systems and the other in honeybee ecologies. Considering Berlin’s development as a multicultural ‘creative’ capital…
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Workshop with Anna Dumitriu
- Anna Dumitriu
On this practical and discussion-based workshop participants will begin to learn how to work safely with bacteria as an artistic medium using commonly available supplies. They will start to develop a ‘bacteriocentric’ view of the world…
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Synthetic Biology Workshop
- C-LAB
This workshop, led by Howard Boland, is for artists, designers, DIY biologists, and especially lay people who wish to gain practical experience with the processes and methods in the creation of new life forms, bio-materials and new forms of expression.
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Biomimicry
- Integrating Nature's elegant solutions into the design process
- Dr. Prateep Beed
Biomimicry is a creative method for sustainable innovation and product design in today’s world.
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DIY Bio Lounge
- in cooperation with Rüdiger Trojok
To open our 2014 programme Art Laboratory Berlin will be presenting three days of events on open source biology and micro-organisms organized with Rüdiger Trojok and in connection with the transmediale and CTM festivals
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Synaesthesia
- Discussing a Phenomenon in the Arts, Humanities and (Neuro-)Science
- Interdisciplinary Conference
As a theoretical addition to our exhibition series SYNAESTHESIA (October 2012 – July 2013), Art Laboratory Berlin held an international interdisciplinary conference to further explore and theoretically question the field of multisensory perception.
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Current Art Practices on Time and Technology
- Gretta Louw, plan b (Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers) , Igor Štromajer
In connection with the exhibition Controlling_Connectivity by Gretta Louw and the series Time and Technology Art Laboratory Berlin presents an artists’ talk on the theme current art practices on time and technology featuring Gretta Louw and plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers) as well as the internet artist Igor Štromajer
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