event | CLUB Night
- CLUB Night
- With the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC Collective and DJ Sets by Mieko Suzuki & Baby Vulture (a.k.a. Daniela Huerta)
16 June 2023
The women FLINTA* only CLUB Night starts with the OCTOPUSSYNTRIC performance, based on a 2-day long workshop of the same title at the MATTER OF FLUX Festival. After the performance, Mieko Suzuki and Baby Vulture (a.k.a Daniela Huerta) will take over the DJ deck throughout the night.
event | Festival, Festival
- Festival
- Women/ FLINTA* in Art, Science and Technology
15 - 18 June 2023
The 4-day festival MATTER OF FLUX presents 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 has been generously supported by Kunstfonds’ program Neustart Kultur and is in cooperation with FEMeeting.
event | Colloquium, Reading Club
- Colloquium + Reading Group
- A look back at 2022
6 December 2022
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects as a the work-in-progress. The Reading Club is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. This time two formats happen together.
event | Reading Club
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artists Interspecifics
22 November 2022
Inspired by… is an event series, a hybrid format derived from reading group and artist talk formats. In each session, an invited artist will choose a specific text or excerpt from a book that was inspirational for the artist’s practice and/or a particular project that the artist will introduce.
event | Talk
- Notes on Somatodelia
- Artist Talk | Tad Ermitaño
20 November 2022
In his films and artworks Tad Ermitaño creates an uneasy field in which a facility with technology collides with a kind of postcolonial guilt slamming its head against the limits of empiricism. In this artist talk with curator Tengal Drilon, Ermitaño will discuss the methodologies behind his recent works, shown at Art Laboratory Berlin earlier this year.
event | Workshop
- Koji Workshop
- Workshop | ink Agop
26 - 27 November 2022
The Koji workshop by ink Agop introduces the symbiotic relationship between microorganisms and human cultural activities by demonstrating the connection between Koji mould and food culture in Japan. Participants make rice koji and experience the multiple parallel fermentation processes using koji, yeast and lactic acid bacteria.
event | Workshop
- Algature Workshop
- Workshop | Fara Peluso
12 November 2022
The workshop connects practices of DIY biology with art and design. Through a participatory format, the audience from different backgrounds are involved in an immersive experience with algae’s ecology, a DIY photo-bioreactor prototyping and a discussion on speculative practice focused on raising more awarenesse about daily habits.
event | Workshop
- Wetland Ecologies: Life in Transitional Zones
- Workshop | Sarah Hermanutz, India Mansour, Fara Peluso
8 October 2022
In the workshop the artist, the designer and the biologist will introduce the participants to the river Panke and changing perceptions of wetlands and essential ecosystems – through situating, storytelling, contextualizing, experiencing, sampling, examining, collaborating.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Margherita Pevere and Dolores Steinman
20 September 2022
The Colloquium addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists, scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities, focusing on the work-in-progress.
event | Walk & Talk
- Rituals and Reflections
- Walk & Talk | Nenad Popov & James Whitehead
18 September 2022
With media and sound artist Nenad Popov and biologist James Whitehead participants will investigate the impact of drought and climate stress on the Panke river. How have low water levels effected nearby soils and vegetation? What signs of urban civilisation – like trash, but also river engineering – are being uncovered?
event | Walk & Talk
- Meandering – Or, the Rights to Flow
- Walk & Talk | Sybille Neumeyer & India Mansour
11 September 2022
Together with microbial ecologist India Mansour and artist Sybille Neumeyer participants will trace the constant transformations that surround the Panke, meandering with the past, present and possible futures of the river. Considering the cycles of biological, cultural and political matters, the group will tune into the multiple voices of, in and around the water.
event | Festival
- Program Overview
- Festival with artists and scientists
September - October 2022
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to the HACK THE PANKE Festival on art, science and sound in Berlin Wedding during summer 2022. The festival takes place as a part of Draussenstadt Call for Action program. All the events are free. For taking part in the workshops, it is necessary to sign up.
event | Film Screening
- Tales of Weird Science and Cosmic Covenants
- Film Screening | Tad Ermitaño
3 September 2022
Tad Ermitaño will show some of his film and video works, sketching an uneasy field in which a facility with technology collides with a kind of postcolonial guilt slamming its head against the limits of empiricism.
event | Performance
- Virophilia
- Performance | Pei-Ying Ling + Soydivision
11 June 2022
This performance is the experiential version of project Virophilia, which explores the futuristic possibilities of using viruses in culinary experiences – an experiment of alternative perspectives through eating, drinking, and storytelling.
event | Workshop
- Seokkeodungdung: Doing “Social Fermentation”
- Workshop | Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC)
4 June 2022
RBSC will introduce their new project that works as a culturing home for microorganisms collected from rice, soil, and human hands, explaining their approach of “seokkeodungdung,” a socio-microbial experiment of mixing, floating, caring, and situating “in the field.”