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Kersnikova Institute

Kersnikova Institute is a Ljubljana based non-for-profit organization that produces and incubates contemporary investigative art projects that focus on impacts of science and technology on contemporary society.

It combines 4 open platforms:

  • Kapelica Gallery – a gallery for contemporary investigative art
  • Bio Tehna – the first Slovenian wetlab & Platform of Artistic Research and Life Systems
  • Rampa Lab – laboratory for mechatronics
  • Vivarium – a lab dedicated to animals, plants and robots.

Kersnikova institute encourages, facilitates and showcases investigative artistic practices and projects, creates public debate, engages citizens into science, stimulate a critical understanding of the time we live in and educates children and young people by using its own unique approach (investigative learning). By being engaged in artistic production in cooperation with scientific institutions and industry, Kersnikova Institute facilitates national and international networks pervades with creativity.

https://kersnikova.org/

Biofriction Radio

 

 

Biofriction Radio is a collection of podcasts with artists in residence and professionals from the bio-sciences and the humanities concerning evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech.

During the conversations with artists, researchers, scientists and biologists we will explore how bioart and biohacking practices open possible changes in the relationship between arts, sciences, technologies and societies.

Biofriction Radio shares some experiences on transdisciplinary projects providing conceptual and practical examples of experimental and artistic research.

The artists who will be speaking about their artistic practices are:

  • 1st episode with Adriana Knouf, artist in residence at Zavod Kernsnikova, is available here
  • 2nd episode with Vanessa Lorenzo, artist in residence at Hangar, is available here
  • 3rd episode with Kinlab, artist in residence at Hangar, is available here
  • 4th episode with Vanessa Goodman and Simona Deaconescu, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 5th episode with Mayra Citlalli Rojo, artist in residence at Bioart Society, is available here
  • 6th episode with Anoushka Skoudy, scientific advisor for the Biofriction residencies, is available here
  • 7th episode with Kira O’Reilly and Christina Gruber, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 8th episode with Joel Ong, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 9th episode with Emilia Tikka, artist in residence at Bioart Society, is available here
  • 10th episode with Helen Torres, a sociologist, educator and translator, is available here

The radio is part of the European project Biofriction led by Hangar in partnership with Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.

Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations perfomance

The video explores and shows the performance Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations held by the Biofriction artist Adriana Knouf.
Xenological Entanglements is a multi-year project exploring the xenomogrification of the tranxxeno body. With altered scientific technologies the artist makes herself the other. In 001. Eromatase at the Kapelica Gallery/Kersnikova Institute, the artist aims to genetically engineer testicular cells (known as Leydig cells) to overproduce oestrogen within a microgravity context. Growing out of the artist’s desire to be one of the first transgender people in space, Eromatase begins to construct the necessary tools for a DIY space biology programme, including instrument construction and novel genetic engineering techniques.

Premiering at the City of Women festival, 001a: Trying Plastic Variations is a lecture-performance that frames this project within previous enactments of self-experimentation with her voice, hormones, and the audacity of tranxxeno imaginaries of outer space. With vocal transmutations based on the artist’s own self-directed arduous voice training, meditations on her prior work that has orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station and early discoveries from the Eromatase project, the lecture performance will enact novel constellations of the body that arise from an understanding of its malleability.

The project is part of the Biofriction residency.

 

Biofriction Radio: Emilia Tikka

Biofriction Radio collects podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech.

In the ninth episode of the podcast, Emilia Tikka, artist in residence at Bioart Society, discusses her research project Xeno-Optimizations for Arctic Survival.  The main objective of the project is to take critical storytelling, mixing science facts with science fiction – as an approach to rethink concepts beyond green utopias or apocalyptic dystopias, reimagining new forms of living and co-existing in technoscientific environments.

 

In its essence, the project is about the question of human adaptation to a changing environment – now, in the face of a planet in transformation because of human impact – but also in the long run because we know from the past that planetary conditions do change on their own. Currently, predominant considerations in technoscience are to counteract those changes and to preserve the environment to support human life as we know it. Our project speculates on the opposite route, deep human futures through – Xeno-Optimizations – to adapt to an ever-changing world with biotechnologies. (Emilia Tikka)

The project is an ongoing collaboration between Emilia Tikka, Oula A Valkeapää, a reindeer herder living in the wilderness of the northernmost fell region and artist and researcher Leena Valkeapää. Furthermore, the research and work are produced within a two-year EU residency program art4med with the Finnish Bioart Society and as a one-month resident within the Biofriction residency program.

The radio is part of the European project Biofriction led by Hangar in partnership with Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.

Link available at Archive.org

Biofriction Radio: Mayra Citlalli Rojo

Biofriction Radio collects podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech.
In the fourth fifth of the podcast, Mayra Citlalli Rojo, a disembodied artist in residence at Bioart Society, discusses her research project about domestication in the history of the evolution of anatomy-botany. The main objective of the research is to locate the performative space where historical research on plants and evolution have a binding character with language as “textus”, tissue, link of imagination on vegetative-human mutations.
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There is no utopia more powerful than transformative everyday practices and that is why I believe in the power of language (tongue) as an act of the body, in the mystery of organic matter, in the image that breaks the barrier of belonging, in the insurrection of the imaginations of the monsters that are conjured up in the act of narration.
Mayra Citlalli Rojo Gómez, Mexico December 2020
The radio is part of the European project Biofriction led by Hangar in partnership with Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.