[rohrpost] 2nd Workshop by Vilém Flusser artist in residency Pinar Yoldas

[Daniela Silvestrin]

Please find all information on the second workshop (Wednesday July 3rd at
Supermarkt) held by PInar Yoldas, the current Vilém Flusser artist in
residency, below!

Best wishes,
Daniela Silvestrin


  *Location:*

*SUPERMARKT Berlin
Brunnenstraße 64
13355 Berlin*

*Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 10:00-18:00*

*R**egistration is limited to max. max. 20 people. **
** Please register via email to rsvp[at]transmediale.de (Deadline: Monday,
1 July 2013)*



Drinks and food will be provided.



*...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most
wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. *(Charles Darwin)



If life started now, the beginning would not be "so simple" as Darwin
suggested. As we have complicated our relationship with life. The
boundaries between nature and culture sublimated and we are breathing a
gaseous mixture of man-made with natural. Our very human culture, overrides
nature. Our capitalistic biomass manufactures mountains of e-waste, beaches
of tar, rivers of zinc, oceans of plastic. We are an army of plastic
surgeons giving the planet a new face. A face that opens its eyes to new
life forms, new beginnings, new extremities.



What kind of fish will swim in the plastic ocean? Who will be sunbathing on
the beaches of tar? What plants will thrive in a forest of concrete and
steel? Which insects will lay eggs on the valleys of asphalt? What birds
will fly in the hazy mornings of smog stained sky?



In this workshop we will have a quick overview into biological systems such
as the circulatory system, the reproductive system etc. and how these
systems (or more specifically organs) might evolve under the influence of
global environmental transformations.



Somewhere between bio mimicry and critical design, the workshop will give
you the time and assets to design your own lungs, grow that extra organ you
always wished for or think about that ultimate meat supplier with zero
methane impact you have been craving for.



The workshop will provide you with the basic information on certain
biological systems and anatomical knowledge. The rest is up to your
imagination.



All is welcome with an open heart and a critical mind.


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*more information here:*
http://www.transmediale.de/content/vil%C3%A9m-flusser-residency-artistic-research-2013