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Biofriction Radio: Joel Ong

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

In the eighth episode of the podcast, we listen to Joel Ong, artist in residence at Cultivamos Cultura.
Joel Ong is a media artist whose work typically involves artistic and scientific perspectives of the environment expressed through sound, video and interactive elements.

In the first part of the podcast, the artist presented himself and his different areas of study in relation to the pandemic era. Within this context, Joel describes and discussed his projects during his online residence at Cultivamos Cultura. 
During the residence, he continued to work on his project Frozen sound: Bioart and the atmospheric microbiome which explores how emerging processes of computational creativity can be an alternative resource for scientific understanding of the environment.
The research looks at DNA and transgenics as a way to cast light on a primordial by reversing genetic mutation through CRISPr, retuning each sample to its ‘wild type’. 
The project proposes and tries to answer these questions:
“what if cloud-seeding was not just about organizing particles in the air, but reconfigure the particles in the air itself to hold and reveal genetic stories? What would it say, and how would the wind recast these narratives, activate scenography’s, and be a medium that is the message?  How could we affect a ‘sensory revelation’ of the atmosphere through a previously described hybridity between the arts and the sciences, and yet retain a mythical or transcendentalist quality of the elements?”  (Joel Ong)
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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: Kira O’Reilly & Christina Gruber

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

In the seventh episode of the podcast, we listen to Kira O’Reilly and Christina Gruber, artists in residence at Cultivamos Cultura.

In the podcast, the artists explain how during the residence their projects crossed over time.

Christina Grubber explores “HOUSTON CAN YOU HEAR ME?” which focused on the development of her research in the field of bioacoustics and how sound recordings in riverine environments can help to transform common field sampling practices that are based on constant extraction of specimens and the extraction of their livelihoods.

Kira O’Reilly will explain her project “Menopause batteries and endocrine piracy”. The artist reformulates menopause in a utopian vision and enactment, an extant, celebratory articulating that revels in re-cognizing the energetic potentialities of the marvellous shift.

 

“Kira and I were not supposed to do this residence together, but by coincidence and pure lack we had the chance to spend this time together” (Christina Gruber)

“Even though our work is really different we found many points of crossing and supports. I was really supported by Christina, and being around her work was really important for me”   (Kira O’Reilly)

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

Photo: Daniela Brill

 

Link available at Archive.org

Exhibition: Trans*Plant

From the 2nd till the 25th of September Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you exhibition takes place in the SOLU Space venue.

Trans*Plant is a transdisciplinary project, initiated by Quimera Rosa in 2016, that utilizes living systems and is based on self-experimentation: it is a process that involves a human to plant transition in various formats. The project juxtaposes disciplines such as arts, philosophy, biology, ecology, physics, botany, medicine, nursing, pharmacology and electronics.

Trans*Plant aims to involve in debates surrounding the Anthropocene from a perspective that is not based on ‘human exceptionalism and methodological individualism’ (Donna Haraway) but to address the world and its inhabitants as products of ‘cyborg processes’, of ‘becoming with’ (Vinciane Despret) and of ‘sympoiesis’ (Haraway).

With our project we try to break down this duality in western thinking: Woman and man, heterosexual and homosexual, natural and artificial, white and not white, normal and abnormal, human and animal, science and witchcraft. These dualities can be continued on an almost infinite list. Everything belongs together. All life is a mixture of everything – people, machines, plants, animals and so on. (Quimera Rosa)

Download the full text of the project here!

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Quimera Rosa (Pink Chimera) is a Barcelona-based collective researching and experimenting on body, technology and identities. Their work is based on the deconstruction of sex and gender identities and the interaction between body, machine and environment.

Quimera Rosa makes bodies a platform for public intervention, breaking up limits between public and private. They are particularly interested in the ways art, science and technology intertwine and their functions in producing subjectivities. Currently, Quimera Rosa focuses on creating transdisciplinary projects and performances, elaborating electronic devices that work with body practices and biohacking experiments.

Most of Quimera Rosa’s work is collaborative and always free of patents and proprietary codes. Their work has been presented in various contexts, from streets to contemporary art centres, bars, galleries, universities, concert halls, colleges, discos, museums, squats, festivals and national scenes.

https://quimerarosa.net/

Practical details:

When: 2nd  to the 25th of September 2021
Venue: SOLU Space, Luotsikatu 13, Helsinki
Entrance: Wednesday to Saturday from 12–16h or by appointment

For more send an email to: info@bioartsociety.fi

Photo by Amar Belmabrouk

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

BIOFRICTION SUMMER PROGRAM_ VIDEO

We are delighted to present the video made by Paula Lienard Ibañez to catch some moments of the Biofriction Summer program.

This summer Biofriction brought together artists, researchers, philosophers, and hackers (among others) from diverse (in)trans_disciplinary practices and perspectives.

For facilitators and participants, the Biofriction Summer program meant qualitative time to share questions, concerns, experiments, curiosities, and critical tools.

Downloadable Program: Biofriction_Summer_Program

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

Carers Facilitators: Ce Quimera and Gaia Leandra. Wetlab resident collective; Xose Quiroga IMVEC and Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz Art Laboratory Berlin; Joanna Zylisnka  and Arnau Sala Saez; Mary Maggic and Paula Pin; Helen Torres and  Possible Bodies

 

 

 

Paratext

 

This Paratext is an exercise in experimental meta-method(s) that makes the text, the research, addressing its presence(s) in the world.

We are welcomed by Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano, artists and researchers in residence at Biofriction, with their project OBOT (Our Bodies, Our Tech).

OBOT, which pays practical-conceptual homage to the proposal of the seventies of the last century, works with three conditions that occur in the bodies of (bio)women: adolescence, fertility and menopause.
Drawing on DIY-DIT networks and certain maker practices, OBOT seeks to generate situated, transversal, and open knowledge. Their aim is to apply it to a meeting place for experimental approaches to share and broaden them. For this reason, they have created KINLab, an inter(in)disciplinary laboratory in the San Siro district of Milan. KINLab wants to de-territorialise hegemonic narratives and tools to articulate open technologies to go beyond biological determinism and any co-extensive notion between sex and gender.
During their research in Hangar, the artists have developed a series of studies with bodily fluids, also dealing with the dynamism of the image. This correlation is essential since most of the scientific microscopic samples deal with dry fluids and, therefore, with static samples. But, on the other hand, in their experimental practice, flows serve as triggers to (re)think certain fundamental and foundational acts or events. Thus, just as part of the biomedical context has codified fluids, OBOT’s empower themselves with techniques, technologies and tools to experiment with non-codifiable flows or flows that escape any attempt at transcendental drive.
Based on situated practices that seek to combat, the capitalization of care, and following multiple conversations with the co-inhabitants of the Wetlab, OBOT, as a project directly related to sovereignty, shares the following questions:

Are care and technologies allied?
Who is missing in this space?
For whom have you been researching today?

Since we have always been biohackers, and we are already a Wetlab, I would add the re-articulation of one of his questions:

From whom(s) have we researched today?

As the Wetlab residents Gaia Leandra and Ce Quimera point out, we should ask ourselves several questions:

What stories do we want to tell? Who do these stories include? Will OBOT, therefore, be the proposal of a “we” that goes beyond the limits of the human? And if so, how to make it possible?

Text by Laura Benítez Valero

Biofriction Radio: Anouchka Skoudy

 

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

In the sixth episode of the podcast, Anouchka Skoudy, a biologist who took part in the Biofriction explored and discusses her experience within the project. 

Anouchka’s interest is to explore, imagine and model molecular biology. 
To make “visible” the invisible, she realised that the connection with art is indispensable to discover the unknown and go beyond the traditional way of doing. 

Her role within the Biofriction framework was to advise and assist the Biofriction artists Vanessa Lorenzo and Kinlab. 
In the podcast, Anouchka mentions what she learned and the challenges she faced during the process.

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Anouchka Skoudy, PhD in Biology, has been working in biomedical research for almost twenty years. In Barcelona, 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 (Postgraduate in science communication) and gradually to the way art and science are linked. By deconstructing a classical academic pathway of learning, she approached this field by sharing transdisciplinary experiences with other people at several levels, from primary schools to arts 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 Biofriction project as a scientific advisor, assisting the artists both at the conceptual and practical levels. 

contact: an.skoudy@gmail.com

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