Grounding symbiosis, sonifying care

Biofriction is collaborating with Sónar+D in the lecture Grounding symbiosis, sonifying care by researcher and biohacker Saša Spačal, in their cycle of conferences The Part of Nature We Don’t See. She explores how funghi, bacteria and other organisms can be creative collaborators, creating technological interfaces and connections between species. 📅 Friday 18th of September ⏰ […]
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Aero-sol-nauts

Travelling Time: Aerosol Wormholes Prelude A bubble suspended in glass. Not half a year ago, we were caught in the infinity mirror that is the status quo. Crisis to crisis, encompassing climate change to surveillance capitalism, the trap drew its power from the unprecedented. With warm pride, we felt our experience severed from that of […]
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Non/Living Queerings

The ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19 has exposed SARS-CoV-2 as a potent nonhuman actant that resists the joint scientific, public health and socio-political efforts to contain and understand both the virus and the illness. Yet, such a narrative appears to conceal more than it reveals. The seeming agentiality of the novel corona virus is itself […]
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Phagelogies. Alliances in the space of Necropolitics.

  Under the warmongering dialectic of the virus as an enemy to be defeated, we are facing hyperstimulation of the social imaginary of the virus as a pathogen, as an infectious agent. This narrative leaves aside the power of the viral agent as a condition of possibility of horizontal transfer of the genetic material and […]
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Arts Shows and Public Health

    The following is a brief description of the short research project “Staying in touch: post-coronavirus art curating” developed on behalf of Cultivamos Cultura in the framework of Biofriction by the working group Art Shows and Public Health leaded by Dalila Honorato and composed by Robertina Šebjanič, Louise Mackenzie, Karolina Żyniewicz and Isabel Burr […]
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Freaktion Bar #12: ‘I will grow my burger’

On the 17th of December 2019, Kapelica Gallery hosts a lecture by Theresa Schubert. What if we produced the food that we eat from ourselves, i.e. from various cell cultures taken from our bodies, thus minimally burdening the environment in which we live? The artist Theresa Schubert will discuss the ethical questions that emerge as […]
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