event | Meet up
- Books and printed matter for sale, some farewells and updates about the program of 2025 and 2026
15 December 2024, 4 - 9 pm
Join us for a Get-together with warm drinks and snacks with some books and printed matter for sale. Let’s come together before the seasonal break and meet on-site at Art Laboratory Berlin for some farewells and some new announcements for the coming years. In our current challenging times, we consider it very meaningful to meet in person, support one another, and express the value of art and culture production.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Ionat Zurr
15 October 2024, 8 pm CET (on-site + online)
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
- Berries, berries, berries and rosehips. FERAL FIELDWORK back at Nasse Dreieck (Autumn Edition) | Artist Talk by Käthe Wenzel
6 October 2024, Walk (1 pm) and Talk (3 pm)
Welcome to a double event – a walk with the interdisciplinary research group FERAL FIELDWORK with Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto and Sina Ribak at the Nasses Dreieck (Berlin Pankow) and an artist talk with Käthe Wenzel (at ALB). Both projects have emerged from the MATTER OF FLUX network and festival in 2023.
event | Panel Discussion
- CURRENT COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN ART, BIOLOGY, MUSIC, AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- Panel Discussion | With Isabel Bredenbröker, Adam Pultz, India Mansour, and Sybille Neumeyer
@Berlin Science Week, Holzmarkt 25! 8 November 2024, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Join us at BERLIN SCIENCE WEEK at Holzmarkt 25 (Berlin Mitte) to a diverse panel with cutting edge transdisciplinary research projects on current research topics: From postcolonialism over to postanthropocentrism, they nurture their knowledge production by transgressing discipline borders with a radical openness for nonhuman subjectivities.
event | Reading Club
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artist Aslı Dinç
1 October 2024
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 | Reading Club
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artists ella hebendanz and pamela varela
18 June 2024
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 | Reading Club
- Reading Club
- With Guest Artist Nicol Rivera Aro
April 16 2024
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 | Book Release Party
- Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care
- Book Launch
23 March 2024 @ PA58, Prinzenallee 58
The book assembles essays and statements along with documentation in text and images by around 50 authors whose many fields of expertise create the polyphonic ground of MATTER OF FLUX: art, design, filmmaking, curatorial practice, dramaturgy, music, art history, media theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, feminist history of science, microbiology, plant ecology, biotechnology, neuroscience, and physical science.
event | Workshop
- An Eco-Sensory workshop
- Tarsh Bates and Alanna Lynch
17 March 2024
Have you noticed that the smells around you have changed? Do you miss the old smells or love the new ones?
Aromas are everywhere and affect us and the life around us in ways that words can’t describe. Changes in the smells of the world around us can have a significant impact on how we feel physically and emotionally but we don’t usually notice unless it smells bad. Construction and climate change cause some of the biggest changes at the moment, but we don’t have a lot of control over these.
event | Talk
- A Discussion
- With Oscar Salguero, Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations, and Onomatopee
28 January 2024 (online)
Join Art Laboratory Berlin during Vorspiel 2024 – a citywide program of events before and during the transmediale and CTM festivals – for a virtual panel on archiving and publishing practices that envision artist books as tools for interspecies understanding, imagining, and kinships. The discussion is organised and moderated by Kristina Stallvik.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Ekaterina Kormilitsyna and Tarsh Bates
12 December 2023 (online)
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 | Reading Club
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance (online) | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar
18 November 2023 (online)
Welcome to the LIVESTREAM of the reading group SURROGACY as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 showing in the exhibition MATTER OF FLUX. Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet 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.
event | Lecture, Talk
- Performing the Sublime Sea of Co-Mattering
- Online-Talk | With Mary Maggic
22 November 2023 (online only)
Biohacking methodologies produce an existential knowing in our bodies and environments, leading to collective strategies that may help us out of ecological ruins. The talk describes how biohacking, as a xeno-feminist practice of care, can inevitably lead to a form of world-making, where collectivities can emerge with a radical breakage from the past.
event | Lecture Performance
- Betel Nut. A Cultural Connector among Austronesian-speaking Societies
- Lecture Performance | With Mooni Perry and Hanwen Zhang (AFSAR)
4 November 2023 (on-site)
Drawing from their previous project “Looking for Sirih (beauty)”, which investigated betel nut chewing culture and its sexist stigma against women selling betel nuts, Moonwen will share their ongoing research on the interconnectedness of betel nut culture and Austronesian-speaking societies and beyond.
event | Workshop
- We’re not Lobsters! Queering, Decolonizing and Hacking Menstruation
- Workshop | With Flo Razoux and Aouefa Amoussouvi
2 - 3 December 2023
The collective 2-day experiment aims to decolonize and queer our perceptions of menstruation. Participants will be invited to share their experiences and examine the representations of menstruation and its rituals. The group will also explore how to access and make use of scientific and technological knowledge, and understand bias.
