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Biofriction Artist-in-residence ADRIANA KNOUF @ Kapelica Gallery

In the video document, Biofriction artist-in-residence Adriana Knouf talks about developing her project Xenological Entanglements. 001: Eromatase during her residency at Kapelica Gallery. She touches upon several aspects of the project, ranging from her childhood desire to go to space, xenology, self-experimentation, hormones, relationships between art, science and technology, to Leydig cell cultivation, thin-layer chromatography, open-source clinostat construction, and transhackfeminism.

Her research revolves around the analysis, expansion, investigation of the “xenon”, of what is indeed strange, foreign, alien and other. Although this research emanates directly from and in itself, as transgender, it expands by opening up avenues of experimentation that transcend spatial, conceptual and bureaucratic boundaries.

In the second part of the video, she talks about several different forms that her project took on: a lecture-performance 001a: Trying Plastic Variations, a text ALIENS–ONTOPOIETIC SELF-EXPERIMENTATION–MOLECULAR–MATRIX–VOICE, a public discussion Freaktion bar #14: Intoxicated by Estrogen, and a photo-performance and object titled 001b: Saccular Fount.

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The artistic residency was realised in the framework of Biofriction, a Creative Europe research project, which focuses on generating spaces for transdisciplinary exchanges and experimental proposals. Supported by the European Commission – Creative Europe, the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture.

BIOFRICTION SUMMER PROGRAM

From the 12th to the 17th of July of 2021, Hangar hosts the Summer program of Biofriction.

The Summer program is a six-day intensive full-time programme on experimental practices where to share and generate situated knowledge(s). Composed of a series of workshops, seminars, and presentations on Wetlab, Radical Ecologies, Ethics, Biohacking, and F(r)ictions; bringing together artists, researchers, philosophers, and hackers (among others) from diverse (in)trans_disciplinary practices and perspectives. One week to share questions, concerns, experiments, curiosities, and critical tools. The proposal is conceived as an entangled structure in which all the thematic nodes are intertwined, but with specific activities that help to cross-pollinate.

How do biotechnologies challenge us? Do we participate in their use or only in their applications? Can we articulate experimental practices with biomaterials? What are the implications of referring to other bio agents as “material”? Can we generate critical and emancipatory tools in a context of collapse? What are the ethical problems posed by experimental practices with the bio? How to articulate situated and mutable Ethics? How to cohabit in a different way with all companion agents? What are the political problems? Can we generate disruptive tactics to hack hegemonic narratives? How does fiction operate? And speculation? How does care operate? What about scale? What is the regime of volumetric representation? How does it affect us? Can we subvert surveillance? How to hack essentialism from (bio)experimental practices? We have a responsibility to decolonize technologies, but how can this be done without generating epistemic violence? Is it possible to do so within the framework of a European project? To what extent are we willing to meet and share through friction and dissent?

Day 1 – Monday, July the 12th: Wetlab: A welcome session and an introduction to the wetlab space will be done by the resident collective. What is a wetlab, and who inhabit it?
If we understand biology not only as a discipline of the natural sciences that studies life and living organisms, what is bio?
If we understand biology as life and technologies which operate at the level of life management, how would we define these technologies?
Which are the interconnection between humans and non-humans? How do contamination and the transmission of knowledge operate in this ecosystem?
Carers_Facilitators: Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra. Wetlab resident collective

Day 2 – Tuesday, July the 13th: Radical Ecologies: This node works on questions related to the situation of ecological crisis and the potential of bio(info)technologies for the implementation of environmental research tools for the defense of territories affected by pollution processes. We will discuss the importance of the presentation and mediation of contemporary arts at the interface of arts, sciences, and technologies.
Carers_Facilitators: Xose Quiroga IMVEC and Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz Art Laboratory Berlin

Day 3 – Wednesday, July the 14th: Ethics: What ethical issues do we face when working with biomaterials and biotechnologies? In this node will work on our human responsibility for the world, at a time when life finds itself under a unique threat. What are the ethical implications of rethinking life? Can we articulate Ethics beyond duty-based deontological models? What role can (distr)active listening and sound play in rethinking Ethics in a context dominated by the visual regime?
Carers_Facilitators: Joanna Zylisnka and Arnau Sala Saez

Day 4 – Thursday, July the 15th: (bio)hacking_with_care: This node invites the participants to experiment and to be crossed by the practical_experimental experience of biotech. DIT [Do it together] tools, fluids, non-static bodies, and anti-essentialist conceptions. To move beyond mere individuality, and perform the sciences and experimental practices through collective doing.
Carers_Facilitators: Mary Maggic and Paula Pin

Day 5 – Friday, July the 16th: F(r)ictions: This node works on questions related to biology, fiction, and arts as surfaces of friction. We will address questions of power but also the problems of fiction, speculation, and scale. What happens when fiction produces the real in terms of control? How does the cultural regime of volumetry operate? What happens to “bodies” in the context of 3D scanning, modeling and tracing technologies, infrastructures, and techniques?
Carers_Facilitators: Helen Torres and Possible Bodies

Day 6 – Saturday, July the 17th: Conclusions: Final comments and sum up of the themes and the transfer of knowledge learned during the Summer Program. Future plans and alliances?

Downloadable Program: Biofriction_Summer_Program

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Practical information:

Date and Venue: 12th to 17th of July 2021, Hangar, Barcelona.
Participants: artists, curators, theorists, doctoral students, undergraduates, self-taught students or social curious-agents who want to expand and share knowledge(s) on bioart, biohacking, biotechnologies
Participation fee: 200€ which includes access to all activities, use of tools and materials, certificate of participation, snacks and coffee.

*Biofriction has 2 scholarships available for those who cannot afford the fee. If this is your case, please send a cover letter to laura@hangar.org
Please, we appeal to collective responsibility and solidarity! if you don’t need it, don’t ask for it

Apply here!
+ info : info@biofriction.org

application deadline: 30th of June

*Image: Maria Francesca Nitti

— Biofriction is a Creative Europe project led by Hangar in collaboration with Bioart Society, Cultivamos Cultura, and Kersnikova Institute on Bioart and Biohacking practices.

Arc-hive.zone project launch

We are glad to announce the launching of the Arc-hive.zone project.

Arc-hive.zone project is formed by part of the Biofriction European project consortium led by Hangar, Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society, Cultivamos Cultura, together with the NGO Kontejner and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

Arc-hive aims to create an open-source digital platform that aggregates, preserves, publishes, distributes, and contextualizes various information, knowledge, and documentation on art, focusing on biomedia. This ensures open access to multiple users and a comprehensive outreach of digital materials across cultural sectors and territories.
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Arc-hive addresses the challenges of creating and distributing cohesive digitization and dissemination protocols through a centralized digital space. Here, knowledge and best practices are collected and are related to art, predominantly using biological materials.

The project is created thanks to the collaboration of six partners, working within NGOs, the museum sector, publishing, and IT and audio-visual field.
The platform is the main project result, it has several functions such as being a catalyzation tool for the activities of artwork and museum specimen digitization, archiving and distribution; remote event participation, planning and realization; augmented publishing; staff and student education and training; and topic contextualization and interconnection.
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Arc.hive wants to build capacities of various cultural agents which work with biological and living materials. Also, the project provides a feasible and tailor-made digital solution to some issues fundamental to the field, following philosophical principles of open data and information sharing in all project phases.
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Through the website https://arc-hive.zone/, @arc.hive.zone on Instagram and arc.hive.platform on Facebook, they will be keeping you up to date with the news and activities of the project.

Biofriction Radio: BLOT

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

In the fourth episode of the podcast, Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman, Biofriction artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, discuss their project BLOT (an acronym for Body Line of Thought).

The work shows a series of performance situations. It explores the idea of contamination seen as collaboration and a way of communication, focusing on humans’ movements and the relation with their bacterias.

BLOT is an interdisciplinary project in line with recent investigations about the constant human interaction with the environment and the microorganisms with which humans coexist. Starting with this concept, BLOT focuses on the layers of bacteria on a person’s skin as a unique fingerprint, a medium through which the act of contamination happens.

The project uses the body to analyze how human existence is translated by language through processes of dependence and control, focusing on the fine line between what is useful and what is toxic.

The resulting installations of the project aim to rethink the body as an interconnected system, solid and fragile at the same time.

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: Kinlab

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

In the podcast, Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano, Biofriction artists in residence at Hangar, talk about the development of their project OBOT,(an acronym for Our Bodies, Our Tech). Through their research, the artists aim to implement a citizen science approach into the investigation of the women’s body around three conditions of life: teenagehood, fertility, and menopause. The project wants to identify a toolbox of processes and practices to design a replicable blueprint for a neighbourhood-based wet-lab by gathering collective intelligence through DIT analysis.

Up until now, most of the biohacking labs have been focused on experimentation by attracting mostly middle class highly educated men. With OBOT the artists are challenging the complexity of the topic and lower the barriers for a more diverse crowd. OBOT aims to explore new open-source approaches with practices of collaboration, co-creation, and citizen science, by fostering an inclusive environment around womxn’s care, starting from a neighborhood level.

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: Adriana Knouf

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

In the podcast, Adriana Knouf, Biofriction artist in residence at Kersnikova, talks about her project Xenological Entanglements. 001: Eromatase, which she began developing during her Biofriction residency at Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute. She touches upon several aspects of the project, ranging from her childhood desire to go to space, xenology, self-experimentation, hormones, relationships between art, science and technology, to cell cultivation, thin-layer chromatography, open-source clinostat construction, and transhackfeminism. Furthermore, she talks about several different forms that her project took on: a lecture-performance 001a: Trying Plastic Variations, a text ALIENS–ONTOPOIETIC SELF-EXPERIMENTATION–MOLECULAR–MATRIX–VOICE, a public discussion Intoxicated by Estrogen, and a photo-performance and object titled 001b: Saccular Fount. The audio clip is enriched by original sounds, recorded for and at her 001a: Trying Plastic Variations lecture-performance in October 2020 in Ljubljana.

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