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Art and Science in the Time of a Pandemic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the 27th of April 2021, Hangar will present an initiative linked to Hac Te project, oriented to disseminate, promote and emphasize interrelationships between different artistic, philosophical, scientific or technologic communities.

This first event will share experiences and thoughts about the practices of art and science in times of a pandemic. It is in this context of epidemiological crisis and sovereignty that uncertainty and systemic inequality are more contemporary than ever in our societies.

The event is part of the European project BioFriction led by Hangar and linked to monographic 27 of the journal Artnodes . All of them are in the context of the development of the project Hac Te in Barcelona.

The program:

  • 19:00 – 19:00
    Opening Welcome by Lluís Nacenta, director of Hangar
  • 19:00 – 19:15
    Presentation of Hub Artech by Pau Alsina, Director of the Art, Science and Technology Program of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  • 19:15 – 19:30
    Performance by artist Mayra Citlalli Rojo
  • 19:30 – 20:30
    Round table Art an science in the time of a pandemic with Laura Benítez and Erich Berger. Moderated by Pau Alsina.
  • 20:30 – 20:45
    Question time
  • 20:45 – 20:50
    Closing of the event

Lluís Nacenta: is a professor, writer and curator in the fields of music and contemporary art. Degree in Mathematics and Music (piano), Master’s Degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Philosophy and Doctor of Humanities, with a PhD thesis about musical repetition, his research proposes a philosophical perspective on the sonic arts. He has published numerous articles in digital and paper publications, such as Cultura/s de La Vanguardia and Nativa, and has curated exhibitions and concerts for Sónar+D, Arts Santa Mònica, Centre de Cultura Contemporància de Barcelona (CCCB) and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, among others.

Mayra Citlalli Rojo is a Mexican artist, interdisciplinary researcher and curator in visual arts and body discourses (gender and race), design and textile innovation research. She has received honorary mentions for doctoral and master final dissertations. She developed postdoctoral research about bacterial cellulose for textile and design. As an artist, she was selected the first artist woman in the resident Air-Montreux, Switzerland (2019). She and the Mexican performer Víctor Martínez developed Laboratory of actions in Public Space (Berlin, 2019). She currently develops the curatorial research Monstruas: teratology of the feminine. She was invited as a curator in the Project Traslados in Santiago de Chile under the topic collective curatorships and migration (2016). Among her papers, stands out The monster as a figure of an economy of the destruction of form in contemporary art: Cabeça do avesso de Lia Menna Barreto.

Erich Berger is an artist, curator and cultural worker based in Helsinki, Finland. His focus is on the intersection of art, science and technology with a critical take on how they transform society and the world at large. Throughout his practice, he has explored the materiality of information, and information and technology as artistic material. Berger’s current interest in issues of deep time and hybrid ecology led him to work with geological processes, radiogenic phenomena and their sociopolitical implications in the here and now. He moves between visual arts and science in an area which he also investigates and develops as director of the Bioart Society in Helsinki. His installations, performances and interfaces are exhibited widely and he has received awards from renowned institutions such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), ZKM (DE), Vida Telefonica (ES), Files Prix (BR) and Arts at CERN (CH).

Laura Benítez is a researcher and independent curator with a P.h.D. in Philosophy“. Her current research focuses on Bioart, Biohacking, processes of bio-resistance, bio-civil disobedience and non-human agents. She is an area director and lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at the Ars and Design degree (Massana School),  lecturer in Technology and Desing (Elisava) and collaborated teacher in the master of Philosophy for contemporary challenges (UOC). She has been a guest researcher at the Ars Electronica Centre and at the MACBA’s documentation centre. She has been invited as a visiting lecturer and guest researcher at different international institutions such as Interface Cultures Kunstuniersität Linz, Sónar Festival (Bcn/Hong Kong), the Royal Academy of Arts London or the University of Puerto Rico. She works as a collaborator in Hangar. Recent theoretical publications: The return of the monster: Subversive power, (Exotopías Magazine, Mexico, 2019), Zombi, Zumbi, Zombie: The sound of the multitude, (Utopía Magazine, España, 2019).

Anouchka Skoudy, P.h.D. in Biology, has been working in biomedical research for almost twenty years. She has led scientific projects related to cell and molecular biology, specifically in the area of embryonic stem cell differentiation and pancreatic cancer. Early she became interested in the procedures of scientific dissemination and gradually to the way art and science are linked. By deconstructing a classical academic pathway of learning, she explored this field sharing experiences with other people at several levels from primary schools to artistic institutions. She paid particular attention to the different abilities and methods to proceed to the unknown and how the context influences this approach. Recently, she has collaborated with the European project Biofriction as a scientist advisor, assisting the artists both at the conceptual and practical levels. She has been a researcher at Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona Biomedical Research Park.

 

The event can be followed presentially or online by registering  here

The link for the streaming is available here 

Link video of the meeting is available here

 

 

 

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 KersnikovaBioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.

Link available at Archive.org

Biofriction Radio: Vanessa Lorenzo

 

 

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, Vanessa Lorenzo, Biofriction artist in residence at Hangar, talks about her project Mari mutare, an open-transdiplinary experiment with biocompatible prosthesis inspired by the proto-Christian ornament of the Greenman: a pagan hybrid figure half-plant, half-human. Influenced by biohacking philosophy, feminist theory and speculative design methodology, this project examines the potentiality of biopractices (biomedia practices) as knowledge-making tools in order to transcend human exceptionalism. The project is  supported by ProHelvetia, Hangar Barcelona (Biofriction EU program) and Utopiana Geneva.

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

Link available at Archive.org (English version)

Link available at Archive.org (Spanish version)

 

Biolab week, exploring the ecology of color

From the 15th to the 19th of March, Elisava Research, Elisava’s Master in Design through New Materials and Hangar presented the Biolab week, a week of conferences and workshops on bio materials hosted in the framework of Biofriction.

On March 15th, Hangar hosted the Biolab Conference, a lecture where Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, University College Ghent); Juan Crespo (Elisava Research BioLab) and Laura Benítez (director of the Biofriction project, led by Hangar) addressed topics such as: ‘Ecology of color. A research journey from nature to materiality’, ‘Growing Engineering & Design (and thus, bio)’, and ‘Bio-disruptions. On scale, care(s) and interdependence’. There will be a final debate hosted by Laura Clèries from Elisava Research.

From the 16th to the 19th of March, Maria Boto, moderated a workshop where 18 students and 4 artists and biologists worked on the topic of color field from different perspectives: from sustainable production and application, to the use of color as a common language between art and science. Starting from traditional coloring, to living organisms or waste, the workshop aimed to reflect about the possibilities of new coloring sources, and the implications involved. During the workshop, participants week obtained color from algae, fungi and bacteria to dissect the bases of color generation and translate them into an applicable and sustainable material.

BioLab Conference

On Monday, March 15 at 6 pm (CET), Elisava Research and the European project Biofriction present the Biolab Conference, a lecture organized within the framework of Elisava’s BioLab Week and the Master in Design through New Materials.

Maria Boto (The Colour Biolab, UGhent); Juan Crespo (Elisava Research BioLab) and Laura Benítez (director of the Biofriction project, led by Hangar) will address topics such as: ‘Ecology of color. A research journey from nature to materiality’, ‘Growing Engineering & Design (and thus, bio)’, and ‘Bio-disruptions. On scale, care(s) and interdependence’. There will be a final debate hosted by Laura Clèries from Elisava Research.

The event will be broadcast in streaming format from Hangar.

Program:

6 pm – 6:25 pm | Maria Boto, researcher at KASK- School of Arts, University College Ghent.
Ecology of color. A research journey from nature to materiality
In living beings, colors come from pigments and structures. The research “Ecology of color” aims to become a bridge between nature and design by dissecting the bases of color generation and translating them into an applicable and sustainable material.

6:25 pm – 6:50 pm | Juan Crespo, PhD, Dr. Juan Crespo. Research Leader of Engineering, Design & Living Systems at ELISAVA Research BIOLAB.
Growing Engineering & Design (and thus, bio)
Can we grow a machine? Well, the answer surely depends on what we consider a machine. Can we grow materials? Materials are naturally grown in nature, without machining. Thus, an innovative approach is the implementation of these natural growing techniques into our manufactures. Many designers are now growing their own materials, transforming their workspaces into biological labs. This transformation, turning “extracting from nature” for “growing with nature”, is the challenge engineering & design is going to face this decade.

6:50 pm – 7:15 pm | Laura Benítez, PhD, director of the Biofriction project
Bio-disruptions. On scale, care(s) and interdependence:
Experimentation with biomaterials not only allows us to develop new lines of research or implementations in the field of design, but it also places us in front of non-human scales. Bio-agents that become hegemony disruptors, challenging us to other relationships based on care and interdependence.

7:15 pm – 7:40 pm
Discussion panel
Moderator: Laura Clèries, PhD. Head of Elisava Research.

Practical information

Date: March 15th
Time: 6 pm CET
Place: Plató, Hangar. C/Emília Coranty, 16.

The session is available at this link

Paratext #50 ft. Kinlab

This name, Paratext, hides a monthly program of performances by artists in residence at Hangar as well as artists on exchange grants. They present, in different formats, specific projects or parts of their work. The sessions are always open to the public with the purpose of enabling interaction with the artists themselves. Each Paratext also has an editor who will later publish his or her impressions of the presentation on this blog. On this occasion, Laura Benítez Valero will be the editor.

The next Paratext session will take place on Wednesday 20 Jauary at 7 pm in Hangar’s Sala Ricson.

Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano from Kinlab (Milan) will present OBOT – Our Bodies Our Tech. Thinking-with trans feminist and queer Science and Technology Studies, the artistic project addresses methods to lower the barriers of scientific knowledge production by making tools, protocols and data accessible and by promoting creative and collaborative inquiry practices while enacting forms of epistemic inclusion.

Zoe Romano is an independent researcher, craftivist, digital strategist e lecturer focused on social innovation, women in tech, technology, open design. Maddalena Fragnito, a PhD doctoral student at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (UK), is a cultural activist exploring the intersections between art, transfeminisms, critical theory, technologies and politics – focusing on the practices of commoning social reproduction. During the last two years, they have been working together on the DSI4EU project and the Rebelling with Care publication (2019). They are now opening KINlab, an interdisciplinary lab in the San Siro neighbourhood in Milan.

At Paratext they will present the project Obot (Our Bodies, Our Tech), developed within the framework of the Biofricion Residence. Obot wants to implement a citizen science approach into the investigation of the womxn body around three conditions of life: teenagehood, fertility and menopause.

The event will be carried out following all security measures. Attendance is free of charge and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.