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Artistic
Research
Saša Spačal
Symbiosis in intra-flux of the Anthropocene
Left:
Saša Spacal with Mirjan Švagelj: Symbiome, biotechnological
installation, 2016, Photo: Miha Godec | Right: Portrait of Saša
Spacal, 2019
November
2019
Artistic research at the Rillig Group, Ecology of Plants, Institute
of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with Art
Laboratory Berlin
For the month of November 2019 bio media artist Saša Spačal
will provide artistic research for her new project Symbiosis
in intra-flux of the Anthropocene at the Rillig Group, Ecology
of Plants, Institute of Biology, FU Berlin. She will address pressing
societal and environmental issues such as climate crisis and plastic
pollution in the context of symbiosis as a process of planetary
metabolism in the case studies such as red clover-bacteria and mycorrhizal
fungi. The collaboration is meant as a research project that will
delve into the material aspects of interspecies connections that
Saša Spačal and her colleagues Dr. Mirjan Švagelj
and Anil Podgornik have already researched with previous artistic
biotechnological installations such as Myconnect, Symbiome, Plastic_ity,
Earthlink. Collaboration with the research team at Free University
Berlin will take the form of observations of experiments, interviews,
planning artistic experiments and the conception of a new series
of works.
29
November 2019, 7.30pm: Project Presentation
Towards the end of the residency Art Laboratory Berlin will host
a public presentation and discussion about the topics that residency
covered, together with scientists from the Rillig Group.
Biography
Saša Spačal (www.agapea.si)
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.
Some of the previous works by Saša Spačal and collaborators:
Earthlink: https://www.agapea.si/en/projects/earthlink
Plastic_ity: http://www.steklenik.si/sasa-spacal-plast_ika/
Meta_bolus: https://www.agapea.si/en/projects/meta_bolus-2
Symbiome: https://www.agapea.si/en/projects/symbiome-the-economy-of-symbiosis
Myconnect: https://www.agapea.si/en/projects/myconnect
A cooperation between Art Laboratory Berlin and the Institute
of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
Rillig
Group - Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität
Berlin
https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/biologie/arbeitsgruppen/botanik/ag_rillig/index.html
https://rilliglab.wordpress.com/
In
cooperation with:
Supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture
and Slovenian Cultural Center in Berlin.
 
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