Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Artist-Silkworm Interface

The Agricultural Treatise as Source and Scrutiny for Creating an Artist Book
Vivan Xu | Lisa Onaga | Dagmar Schäfer | Regine Rapp | Anna Grasskamp | Yubin Shen

4 July 2019

This one-day symposium discusses how the lens of contemporary art can engage with the genre of the agricultural treatises and manuals that have long attracted the attention of scholars in the history of science.

event | Talk

Conversations in Silk

Artist and scholar talk
Vivian Xu and Lisa Onaga

30 June 2019

“Conversations in Silk” presents a dialogue between historian of biology Lisa Onaga and artist and designer Vivian Xu reflecting on the intermingled topics of silk, sericulture, and specultations of the future of the silkworm-human relations within a technoscience framework.