Biofriction is a research project with the goal of generating and facilitating spaces for exchange where artists, curators, theoreticians and different social collectives, such as activists and educational projects, can collaborate in transdisciplinary experimental proposals that offer practical alternatives to existing problems in contemporary Europe, such as the rise of essentialist discourses that launch not only a worrying discourse but also policies of marginalisation and exclusion.
The generation of these hybrid contexts that favor the collaboration of artists and scientists has provided a new conceptual and practical framework for artistic research, has allowed paradigm changes that affect other areas of knowledge / cultural areas, but has also highlighted barriers recurring and sectoral silos that jeopardize effective collaboration between these two communities.
Aware of the potential and needs of this new area of knowledge, the Biofriction project, from October 1, 2019 until September 30, 2021, will focus on the intersection between art, science and technology.
