Microdoc_ Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Godman residency

The video is one of the Microdoc of the residencies within Cultivamos Cultura premises and presents the Biofriction artistic research of Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Godman during their residency at Cultivamos Cultura. In the video, Vanessa and Simona explore their project BLOT.  BLOT proposes a series of performative situations that explore movement in relation to […]
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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 […]
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I versus Us versus I _ by Yvonne Billimore

Reflections on encountering and thinking-with “other” bodies through art. The following text is an experiential description of listening to the sound work Arachnid – Tick sensing by Kira O’Reilly and Antye Greie (AGF):   tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick tick. tick. tick. tick… tick… tick… pulsing. pulsing. breathe […]
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Mayra Citlalli Rojas, remote artistic residency

From January 7 to February 4 of 2021, Mayra Citlalli Rojas has been an online Biofriction resident. During her remote residence with Bioart Society, she continued her research project on domestication in the history of the evolution of anatomy-botany and will have the specific objective of locating the performative space where historical research on plants […]
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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, […]
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