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Hangar

Hangar is a Barcelona based centre for art research and production, offering support to artists.

Hangar’s mission is to support the visual artists and creators during the different phases of their art production processes as well as to contribute to the best development of their projects. For doing so, Hangar facilitates them equipment, facilities, production assistance and a suitable context for experimentation and free knowledge transfer.

The centre offers an array of services and a framework that allows for the research and development of art productions in their entirety, or partially. Hangar follows up on the results by including the projects in various networks and platforms, or by detecting possibilities for their incorporation within other fields.

https://hangar.org

Biofriction Radio

 

 

Biofriction Radio is a collection of podcasts with artists in residence and professionals from the bio-sciences and the humanities concerning evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech.

During the conversations with artists, researchers, scientists and biologists we will explore how bioart and biohacking practices open possible changes in the relationship between arts, sciences, technologies and societies.

Biofriction Radio shares some experiences on transdisciplinary projects providing conceptual and practical examples of experimental and artistic research.

The artists who will be speaking about their artistic practices are:

  • 1st episode with Adriana Knouf, artist in residence at Zavod Kernsnikova, is available here
  • 2nd episode with Vanessa Lorenzo, artist in residence at Hangar, is available here
  • 3rd episode with Kinlab, artist in residence at Hangar, is available here
  • 4th episode with Vanessa Goodman and Simona Deaconescu, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 5th episode with Mayra Citlalli Rojo, artist in residence at Bioart Society, is available here
  • 6th episode with Anoushka Skoudy, scientific advisor for the Biofriction residencies, is available here
  • 7th episode with Kira O’Reilly and Christina Gruber, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 8th episode with Joel Ong, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura, is available here
  • 9th episode with Emilia Tikka, artist in residence at Bioart Society, is available here
  • 10th episode with Helen Torres, a sociologist, educator and translator, is available here

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

Sonic fictions workshop collective podcast

The collective podcast produced by Helen Torres together with the Sonic Fiction participants is out!
The podcast is held in Castilian and consists of reflections between Helen and the participants on the topics addressed during the Sonic Fiction workshop.

Credits of the podcast Sonic Fiction 

Extracts from the short film Nueva argirópolis, by Lucrecia Martel.

Extracts from The Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide Into the Future… [2016], by Elysia Crampton.

Extract of the reportage Lenguas en extinción | Visión 360 VII Temporada.

Extract of the live Tanya Tagaq.

Red Fox by National Park Service.

Myiopsitta monachus – SelvaLAMA14.wav by UrbanSoundBcn

Cotorres de pit gris NTS.wav by UrbanSoundBcn

cotorra_kramer_vr.wav by UrbanSoundBcn (freesound.org/people/UrbanSoundBcn); Freesound.org

Cotorrespitgris.wav by Perete

Military Helicopter.wav by Benboncan

01262 walking through forest path 2.wav by Robinhood76

fouryearoldchild_laughing.mp3 by Morgantj

Poranek na łące w dolinie Narewki by Izabela Dłużyk; muzykacyfrowa.pl/collection/echa-krainy-zubra-ptasi-spiew

Link available at Archive.org

About the workshop

How does power operate through sound violence? How did colonial practices use sound as a tool of domination and control, from the barking of dogs to the mutilation of auditory organs? How do police and military forces use sound as an instrument of torture and repression?

What violences are generated when language is lost, erased, forbidden? What do the different speech practices and the ways in which voices distort silence imply? What would a space-time not traversed by such violence be like? What sounds would a hypothetical anti-colonial sound archive include?

Based on these questions and others that arise, during two sessions we will review a story by Octavia Butler, a sound and visual collage by Elysia Crampton and a short film by Lucrecia Martel, in the workshop Sonic Fictions. Conversations on Sound as a Tool for Struggle and Resistance, we will speculate on voice, speech, music and sound as tools of decolonial struggle and resistance, amplifying listening as a matrix of fictions to enter into their transformative codes. In a third session, we will record a podcast with the experience of the workshop.

The intention of the two-day workshops was to talk about the power of sound fictions that operate in dissent, that alter the modes of sensitive representation and hegemonic forms of enunciation by changing frames, scales, rhythms, building new appearances between the real and the speculative, the singular and the common, the human and the non-human, the (in)visible, (in)decible, the (in)audible, the (i)recognizable and its significance.

MATERIALS

First session. Speech Fabulation

  • the story Speech Sounds by African-American writer Octavia Butler, a dystopia in which a virus causes people to lose the ability of language, both spoken and written, and the world is transformed into a chaos of violence and destruction. More info
  • short film “Nueva Argirópolis”, by Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, in which a soundtrack without subtitles composed of rumours, almost inaudible conversations, gestures and speech codes incomprehensible to the border police presents a soundscape in which a group of indigenous activists plot resistance. More info

Second session. Cuir sonic fictions

  • mini-opera Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide Into the Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) (2016) by trans artist Aymara Elysia Crampton, a sound and visual collage that fabulates the resurrection in the distant future of Bartolina Sisa, an Aymara revolutionary who in the 13th century fought against the Spanish conquerors and was brutally murdered, and her merger with non-white trans cyborgs sheltered in a subway labyrinth of abandoned American prisons. More info

 

Helen Torres is a sociologist, educator and translator. She works from feminist and anti-colonial perspectives on the articulation between language, art and politics. She has published a novel (Autopsia de una langosta, Melusina, 2010) and an anthology of short stories (Relatos Marranos, Pol·len, 2015). She has specialized in the work of Donna Haraway, by whom she has translated into Spanish Testigo_Modesto@Segundo_Milenio: HombreHembra_Conoce_Oncoratón (UOC, 2002), el Manifiesto Chthuluceno desde Santa Cruz and Seguir con el problema (consonni, 2019). She conducts workshops on speculative fabulation. She has translated Marge Piercy’s Mujer al borde del tiempo (consonni, 2020). She has developed geolocated sound narratives and literary walks. Her latest sound intervention, Exercici de fabulació especulativa, is part of the exhibition Polítiques del sòl, curated by Christian Alonso.

http://helenatorres.wordpress.com/

This workshop is part of the program Ficciones del des-orden, and is organized in collaboration with Biofriction (European project led by Hangar) and the exhibition Ciencia Fricción at the CCCB.

 

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, mixing science facts with science fiction – as an approach to rethink concepts beyond green utopias or apocalyptic dystopias, reimagining new forms of living and co-existing in technoscientific environments.

 

In its essence, the project is about the question of human adaptation to a changing environment – now, in the face of a planet in transformation because of human impact – but also in the long run because we know from the past that planetary conditions do change on their own. Currently, predominant considerations in technoscience are to counteract those changes and to preserve the environment to support human life as we know it. Our project speculates on the opposite route, deep human futures through – Xeno-Optimizations – to adapt to an ever-changing world with biotechnologies. (Emilia Tikka)

The project is an ongoing collaboration between Emilia Tikka, Oula A Valkeapää, a reindeer herder living in the wilderness of the northernmost fell region and artist and researcher Leena Valkeapää. Furthermore, the research and work are produced within a two-year EU residency program art4med with the Finnish Bioart Society and as a one-month resident within the Biofriction residency program.

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: Mayra Citlalli Rojo

Biofriction Radio collects podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech.
In the fourth fifth of the podcast, Mayra Citlalli Rojo, a disembodied artist in residence at Bioart Society, discusses her research project about domestication in the history of the evolution of anatomy-botany. The main objective of the research is to locate the performative space where historical research on plants and evolution have a binding character with language as “textus”, tissue, link of imagination on vegetative-human mutations.
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There is no utopia more powerful than transformative everyday practices and that is why I believe in the power of language (tongue) as an act of the body, in the mystery of organic matter, in the image that breaks the barrier of belonging, in the insurrection of the imaginations of the monsters that are conjured up in the act of narration.
Mayra Citlalli Rojo Gómez, Mexico December 2020
The radio is part of the European project Biofriction led by Hangar in partnership with Zavod Kersnikova, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.