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.
event | Workshop
- Capturing Leakage: Body Flows and Material Investigations
- Workshop | With Karolina Żyniewicz and Charlotte Roschka
14 - 15 October 2023
The workshop is based on the methodology of artistic research: conceptualization, sampling, and exploration. The crucial aspect of the project is building a narration based on writing, photographs, videos, sound, electromagnetic recordings, and material samples from the Panke River and Soldiner Kiez.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Kristina Stallvik and Louise Mackenzie
17 October 2023
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 | Workshop
- Workshop | With HyungJun Park and Juha Lee
23 - 24 September 2023
In the framework of the exhibition “ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code”, the artist HyungJun Park and the co-curator Juha Lee lead one-to-one workshop sessions with participants who signed up for dedicated slots on 23 and 24 September 2023. If you would like to join with a friend, family member or partner, please mention this in the notes section.
event | Open Call
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- OPEN CALL | Reading Group SURROGACY, with Anindita Majumdar
Apply now (deadline 1 October)
OPEN CALL for the online reading group SURROGACY as fork-out project of UNBORN0x9 shown 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 | Workshop
- Hydrofeminist Ecologies
- Workshop | With Sarah Hermanutz, Fara Peluso, India Mansour
16 September 2023
The art, design and science trio continue their ongoing collaborations along the Panke River. Flowing together formats of reading groups, meditative sensory experience, DIY and traditional methods of scientific inquiry, and discussions both affirmative and critical, this workshop invites fluid practices of connection and care between and beyond humans.
event | Colloquium
- Research in Art, Science and Humanities
- With Helena Nikonole and Lucy Ojomoko
13 September 2023
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 | Talk
- Arts of Vulnerability
- Artist Talk | With Margherita Pevere
24 August 2023
What does it mean to be vulnerable – and what may leaks tell us about bodies and environments in posthuman terms? Dr Margherita Pevere has addressed these questions through bioart and performance. In context of the current event series “Permeable Bodies” at Art Laboratory Berlin she will speak about her two concepts – ‘arts of vulnerability’ and ‘poetics of uncontainability’.
event | Talk
- Self-Care
- Artist Talk with Lyndsey Walsh
25 June 2023
Self-Care is Lyndsey Walsh’s artistic attempt to reckon with ruptures in their identity caused by the rising use of genetic diagnostics in medicine. Using Lyndsey’s own body, Self-Care weaves a narrative about health, gender, and identity that seeks to resist the confines of the medical gaze. This talk will explore the larger body of research that has given way to Lyndsey’s artwork.
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 | Reading Club
- Reading Group UNBORN0x9
- Live-Performance | Reading Group ECTOGENESIS, with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
27 May 2023
Welcome to the Livestream Performance of the Reading group ECTOGENESIS, whih is a 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 | 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.
