[spectre] Upcoming November Events: In Progress Colloquium (w/Saša Spačal and Joana MacLean), Algature workshop by Fara Peluso and artist talk with Saša Spačal

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Join us on 8 November for In Progress... | Colloquium with Saša Spačal and Joana MacLean, 12 November for Fara Peluso's Algature workshop.

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** IN-PROGRESS… | COLLOQUIUM
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** Research in Art, Science and Humanities
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** With Saša Spačal and Joana MacLean
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Date: Tuesday, 8 November 2022,
Time: 8 pm CET
Online (No livestream, no recording)

Art Laboratory Berlin is delighted to invite you to take part in our discursive format – a colloquium on research in art, science and humanities, curated by Regine Rapp (in conjunction with our Reading Club, curated by Tuçe Erel).

The Colloquium (on 8 November it will be entirely online) addresses an international interdisciplinary research audience to present and discuss past, present or future projects by artists and scholars, curators or editors from the fields of art, science and the humanities. The topics could refer to an art project, a book, text or chapter, a research or exhibition project, a lab experiment, a lecture series, a conference concept or other.

The presentations and exchange will focus on the work-in-progress. Methodological approaches – theoretical or practical – are also of great interest here. While researching, we often tend to shift between practical inquiry and theoretical research, browsing various disciplines. Following the original meaning of colloquium as “speaking together”, we want to provide a platform for exchange and embrace various kinds of work processes which are often not seen or talked about.

Structure of the sessions: Each session will include two presentations followed by discussions, altogether 90 min. The colloquium welcomes informal conversations amongst the participants.


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Speakers on 8 November Session
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Saša Spačal
In the Colloquium Saša Spačal will talk about her ongoing research project Terra Xenobiotica that she is currying out during her current residency at Art Laboratory Berlin and at the lab of the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Freie Universität Berlin. Terra Xenobiotica is an exploration into a dark alterity of soil ecology, an umwelt of its own, where mineral and organic agents entangle as strangers, but decompose into oneness of the ground that carries biological life in the Zone.

Saša Spačal is an artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on the development of technological interfaces and relations with organic and mineral soil agents while trying to address the posthuman situation, that involves mechanical, digital and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics. Her work was internationally exhibited, awarded and performed at, to name only a few, Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Transmediale Festival (DE), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE). In October and November 2022 Spačal will do artistic research at the Rillig Lab, curatorially accompanied by Art Laboratory Berlin.
www.agapea.si

Joana MacLean

In the Colloquium she will talk about her PhD progress in the plastisphere and the methods she has used to approach the topic. Joana MacLean has spent her past years studying microbial communities in plastic polluted grounds, a process that does not only involve scientific practice but also the nurturing of a topic within her personal space as human, woman and researcher.

Joana MacLean is a microbiologist interested in future ecologies and areas of research that allow to involve other speculative methodologies. As a PhD student at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, she is currently working on microbial communities in anthropogenic landscapes and plastic polluted grounds. Her current artistic and biological research focuses on Plastic as a neo-geological material and as (micro)biological habitat for bacteria and fungi.
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** PANKE INTERVENTIONS
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** Algature
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** Workshop | Fara Peluso
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Date: 12 November 2022
Time: 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue: Art laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Workshop fee: 20 EUR / 15 EUR (includes material for bioreactor)

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to our autumn series PANKE INTERVENTIONS with various events by artists and scientists related to the river Panke.

Can daily spaces be designed to house living machines, as an action to merge and connect different ecosystems by reducing the distance between the human and nonhuman spheres?

The workshop supports this action connecting practices of DIY biology with art and design, encouraging participants to learn about science and discovering how powerful the transdisciplinary approach can be. 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. By considering a new way of approaching living organisms Algature will question how closeness to them can give economic, political and artistic contributions. The introduction to the speculative design combined with the DIY methodology will be an occasion to study some objects and, by stimulating critical issues, it will help to define a new possible generation of tools.

Through her workshop Peluso wants to show how practices of caring and resilience from nature are ecofeminist actions aimed to repair the ecological disaster of the culture of capitalism by contributing to build new models, supporting species and maintaining biodiversity.

Artist designer Fara Peluso‘s long-term research focuses on potential uses for algae as an environmental regulator, source for sustainable materials, and aesthetic catalyser of biophilia. Her research and practice combine working with biotechnologists and DIY scientists with speculative and critical design to produce a myriad of innovative design and artistic solutions.

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PANKE INTERVENTIONS Festival is supported by BEZIRKSKULTURFONDS MITTE


** TERRA XENOBIOTICA OR HOW TO BELONG
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** Artist Talk | Saša Spačal
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Date: 25 November 2022
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Donations are welcome.
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Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to an Artist Talk with bio media artist Saša Spačal where she will speak about her currently evolving new artistic research project. During the months of October and November 2022 the artist undertakes artistic research for her new project Terra Xenobiotica or How to Belong at the lab of the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, Freie Universtität Berlin and at Art Laboratory Berlin.

“Terra Xenobiotica is an exploration into a dark alterity of soil ecology, an umwelt of its own, where mineral and organic agents entangle as strangers, but decompose into oneness of the ground that carries biological life in the Zone.

During the residency temporal aspects of xenobiotic substances and metabolisms will be sampled, researched and observed in the vicinity of airports. On the nodes of planetary aviation networks, traces of human grounding and ungrounding will be materially examined to reveal how foreign substances perform gradual belonging.” (Saša Spačal)

Spačal’s projects employ “fascinating biotechnological strategies that enable the physical experience of immersion and the philosophical experience of interconnectedness and networking”, reflects Regine Rapp in her essay Saša Spačal. Symbioses and Planetary Interconnections. “Without ever losing the artistic value of aesthetic experience, Spačal uses current scientific knowledge and laboratory practices of biology – especially microbiology and mycology, the science of fungi. In doing so, she creates particular encounters mediated through non-linguistic forms of perception and exchange – acoustic, electronic and metabolic. The artistic results offer a new repertoire for accessing the world anew in its symbiotic complexity.” (Rapp, R. (2022) ‘Saša Spačal. Symbiosen und planetarische Verflechtungen’, Kunstforum International, 281, p. 116 (https://artlaboratory-berlin.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a6fe4a9bb743dd155d72a6a2&id=1e4d604aec&e=572b364056) )

Saša Spačal (www.agapea.si (https://artlaboratory-berlin.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a6fe4a9bb743dd155d72a6a2&id=14a75597e7&e=572b364056) ) is an artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her artistic research focuses on the development of technological interfaces and relations with organic and mineral soil agents while trying to address the posthuman situation, that involves mechanical, digital and organic logic within contemporary biopolitics and necropolitics.
Her work was internationally exhibited and performed: Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Prix Cube Exhibition (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Cynetart Festival (DE), National Art Museum of China (CHN), DaVinci Festival (KR), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Device_art Festival (CRO), Extravagant Bodies Festival (CRO), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SRB), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sonica Festival (SI). She was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, nominated for the Prix Cube and the New Technological Art Award.
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