Publications - Art Laboratory Berlin

Texts and authors:

Fungi as sustainable biomaterials | Bertram Schmidt, Bastian Schubert, Kustrim Cerimi, Carsten Pohl, Vera Meyer
Lichens as natural product reservoirs | Zakieh Zakeri, Stefan Junne, Peter Neubauer
Art and science as community mycelia | Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Theresa Schubert, Bertram Schmidt, Alessandro Volpato
Artist and designer in laboratory residencies | Theresa Schubert, Fara Peluso
How to exhibit Mind the Fungi? On mycohuman co-curating | Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz
Teaching and learning transdisciplinary | Kustrim Cerimi, Bastian Schubert, Birke Weber, Carsten Pohl,
Bertram Schmidt, Vera Meyer
Merging science and art through fungi (reprint) | Vera Meyer
On mycohuman performances: fungi in current artistic research (reprint) | Regine Rapp

With the generous support of the Technische Universität Berlin as part of the program “Citizen Science - Forschen mit der Gesellschaft” and the Open Access Publication Fund.

Regine Rapp/ Christian de Lutz: "HYBRID ECOLOGIES. Artistic Research in 21 Century" in:

Intersections Between Art and Science in the Anthropocene.
Quo Artis

https://quoartis.org/projects/intersections-between-art-and-science-in-the-anthropocene/

Publication date: 2021

Regine Rapp: Das Konzept Nonhuman Subjectivities. Aktuelle künstlerische Praktiken im Posthumanismus, p. 67-85, in:


Design and Mimesis
Friedrich Weltzien and Antonia Ulrich (eds.)
Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2019


http://www.reimer-mann-verlag.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titelnummer=101610&verlag=4

[macro]biologies & [micro]biologies.
Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century.
Ed. by Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Berlin 2015

98 pages
96 color images
20 x 25 cm (closed)
Concept: Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz
Layout: Eva Jera Hanžek
Printed by Blurb

Softcover: 39 EUR
Hard Cover, Dusk Jacket: 48.90 EUR
Hard Cover, Image Wrap: 49.90 EUR
eBook: 7.99 EUR
PDF: 4.99 EUR

This book provides a sustainable supplement to the [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies series which took place at Art Laboratory Berlin between 2013 and 2015. The whole programme consisted of four group shows, several seminars and talks on contemporary art and the life sciences. Four exhibitions - the biosphere, organisms, the bacterial sublime, and proteo - featured renowned international artists working across the borders between the arts and different fields of biology. Next to a theoretical reflection about the exhibited artists the publication also includes artist statements and documents a number of outstanding events from the series - workshops and seminars with artists, biologists, and scholars, discussing synthetic biology, speculative design, DIY Bio, and practical exercises in citizen science.
More information about the series


Authors & Contributions

Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz: Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century, p. 8-52
Katya Gardea Browne: Rhythms of a Living World, p. 61
Richard Pell: The Center for PostNatural History, p. 62
Mathias Kessler: Nature and Us - Between Boundless Desires and Limited Compassion, p. 64
Alexandra Regan Toland: Mapping the Urban Grind Mill, p. 66
Suzanne Anker: Petri's Panoply, p. 69
Maja Smrekar: BioBASE - The Eco Utopian Agent, p. 71
Brandon Ballengée: The Cry of Silent Forms, p. 72
Anna Dumitriu: The Bacterial Sublime, p. 75
Joanna Hoffmann: πρωτεο / proteo, p. 76
Pinar Yoldas: Reflecting my Artistic Practice and Collaborating with Art Laboratory Berlin, p. 79-80
Denisa Kera: Biostrike as Soil Art: Biotech Guerrillas in the Post-Antibiotic Age, p. 83-88
Desiree Förster: Under the Surface, under the Skin. The Use of Synthetic Biology within the Artistic Practice of C-LAB, p. 93

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Anna Dumitriu. The bacterial sublime.
Ed. by Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz, Berlin 2014

34 pages
15 color images
20 x 25 cm (closed)

Printed by Blurb

Softcover: 26.54 EUR
Hard Cover, Dusk Jacket: 34.91EUR
Hard Cover, Image Wrap: 35.84EUR
eBook: 10.99 EUR
PDF: 7.57 EUR

The catalogue presents the retrospective exhibition [micro]biologies I: the bacterial sublime with artworks by Anna Dumitriu at Art Laboratry Berlin in autumn 2014. The show was curated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz, as part of the [macro]biologies & [micro]biologies exhibition series. The catalogue also includes the essay The bacterial sublime. Reflectinos on the art of Anna Dumitriu, a unique 'infective agent' in the culture of scientific investigation by Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz. More information about the exhibition

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Christian de Lutz: "Is the Desert Still the Desert in a Digital World?"
p. 85-6 in

Warnayaka Art Centre: Life in the Digital Desert
Gretta Louw, Barbara Glowczewski , Jennifer Biddle (eds.)
IDAIA 2013

http://www.idaia.com.au/en/book-warnayaka-art-centre-life-in-the-digital-desert/

Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen: Why is Green a Red Word?
Published by Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin 2013

Limited Edition, signed by the artist

Edition: 250

Since 2003, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, herself a synaesthete, has created an extensive video archive of interviews about the multi-sensory perception of synaesthesia that document the experiences of individuals and at the same time make the unbridgeable gap between this topic and the audience clear.

Her project Why Is Green a Red Word? is comprised of interviews with synaesthetes and scientists, but also includes conceptual video works such as What the Hell does Purgatory Look Like? and drawings depicting the spatial imagination of number forms by different synaesthetes. Contemporaneous with the exhibition opening will be the publication of Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen’s artist book Why is Green a Red Word?

Graphic Design by Kenan Darwich

http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm

59 pages, color photographs
21 x 21 cm (closed), 21 x 42 cm (open)
Softcover, 4-color images

Collectors Edition, signed by the artist
Edition: 100

In her project Controlling_Connectivity Louw explores to what extent an extreme use of the Internet and our belief in the online connectivity can have psychological consequences. Her inquiry questions self-censorship and socially acceptable forms of behaviour in the face of the constant pressure put in place by society's inexorable increasing need for connectivity.

For 10 days in November 2011 the artist was available 24 hr/day for discussions, emails, comments, or interviews - of both private and professional nature - for any Internet user wishing to take part in the project. All necessary supplies were stored within the gallery and the windows were blacked out to en-sure that the environment was not normalized by natural light or the social rhythms outside, but de-fined purely by the internet connection to external participants. A number of planned online events (the artist's 30th birthday; live talks and performances with partners in New York, Japan, Denmark and Berlin; interviews with press, etc.) were scheduled at intervals throughout the performance.

More information:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-24.htm
http://controllingconnectivity.tumblr.com/

http://grettalouw.com/conconn%20artist%20book.pdf

272 pages, 136 camera obscura photographs
Interviews (each 4-15 min.), on 4 CDs

Essay by Regine Rapp: The Inner Eye and Extended Time. Reflecting upon Bärbel Möllman's Project VISIONS NYC. (German and English)

25 x 30 cm (closed), 50 x 30 cm (open)
Hardcover, 4-color images

Collectors Edition, signed by the artist
Edition: 25 exemplars

In the photo book the portraits from New York are collected in a volume as large format color photo-graphs. Sometimes the wide-format images extend over double pages. The photo book is able, as a special bibliophile medium, to give space to individual life concepts. The pages constitute a central moment in the reception process, sequentiality and seriality by the ordering of book pages, to meet the heart of urban agglomeration and diversity of urban life. Not least through its archival nature the artist's book provides an ideal format for this unusual and material rich project.

More information about the project and the exhibition
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-23.htm

SOL LEWITT. Artist's Books.
Ed. By Maffei, Giorgio/ de Donno, Emanuele.
Mantua: Corraini Edizioni 2010

ISBN 978-88-903459-2-0

The exhibition SOL LEWITT. Artist's Books opening at Art Laboratory Berlin on 21 January presents the complete oeuvre of 75 artists' books produced by the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, dating from 1967 to 2002. This exhibition pays tribute to the unique bibliophile production of the artist, who died in 2007.

The American artist Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was an influential figure in minimalism and is considered one of the most important representatives as well as co-founder of American conceptual art. The term "conceptual art" goes directly back to LeWitt: "If the artist carries through his idea and makes it into visible form, then all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made vis-ual, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps - scribbles, sketches, draw-ings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations - are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product."
(Paragraphs, Artforum, June 1967)

More information about the exhibition:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-21.htm

More information about the Sol LeWitt_Symposium:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-10.htm

44 p., color, text in English and German
ISBN: 978-3-9813234-0-5

In their installation Body of Evidence the artists turn the perpetrator-victim-relationship upside-down. As the FBI had stolen their artistic material, they, in return, confiscated the debris left behind on Steve Kurtz's lawn by the FBI agents - pizza boxes, Gatorade bottles, hazmat suits and biological sample bags, as well as written notes and a single cigar butt. The exhibition's curators Regine Rapp and Chris-tian de Lutz write about this in the exhibition catalogue:??"The display of the notes and papers which the federal agents wrote during their raid resembles a strategy of counter-appropriation in which CAE and IAA convert those objects left behind as "evidence" for their own investigation. All in all, this turns the 'case' inside out and subverts the power structure. The items confiscated are exchanged for items left behind, which in turn form the basis for the exhibition. In a strange act of reciprocity, the artists are able to invert the whole investigator/perpetrator system. The blank space created by the seizure of CAE's artworks is filled by the debris of the state; and with this the absence of the seized objects is made more tangible."

More information:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/de-ausstellung-15.htm

Prinzenallee - Ein Stück ohne Dialoge.
Ed. by Birgit Szepanski and Regine Rapp for Art Laboratory Berlin. Berlin 2009.

Artist Book, 36 pages
Texts in German language

ISBN 978-3-9813234-1-2

"The graphic and spatial transformation of the urban theme in the exhibition space resembles Gaston Bachelard's description of Topo-analysis as the "study of the locality in our inner life". This publication shows excerpts of artistic work - photography as well as five fictive texts - that formed the exhibition, and mirrors in their formal composition of Birgit Szepanski's special aesthetic of text and image instal-lations. The chosen bibliophile medium accommodates the artists formal language especially well."
(Regine Rapp, from the essay "Vom Oszillieren urbaner Zeichen" ("On the oscillation of urban signs") of the publication)

More information about the project:
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-6.htm