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Paula Pin

BIO

Paula Pin, resident in Hangar in 2009,  is a researcher and artist-activist who has a strong inclination towards research and experimentation processes with collective and free technologies.

She has undertaken residencies at institutions such as CERN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Art school KASK en Gent, Prototyp_ome at Hangar Barcelona, Gaite Liric en París, Querly Ecologies at Click Festival y OSH Open Source Gathering en Shenzhen, China. ,Although her work emerges from within a scientific tradition of research and experimentation, running throughout drawing to abstract video, circuit bending and lab experiments but always located in the intersection where biology, science and queer art collide.

Interactive kinetic sculptures, immersible environments, audiovisual installations, performance and direct action are the art disciplines that she has used in her search for developing new channels to communicate desires and sensations, using the physical body as the bridge which connects nature and technology.

 

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Within the Biofriction project, Paula takes part in the Biofriction Summer Program.

Gaia Leandra

BIO

Gaia Leandra (Naples, 1990) is a scientific art researcher. She studied biological physical chemistry at the University of Naples. At the end of her academic career, she collaborated with the National Department of Research in Microelectronics and Genetics (CNR). One of the reasons why she decided to leave the academy is due to the inconveniences generated by the privatization of knowledge and the sexist hierarchy she finds in it. For Gaia, research and the results of science must be accessible to all. To this end, the approach to scientific work must respect the freedom of dissemination, which is defined as open science. She knows transfeminist and transdisciplinary laboratories of the art world, where she makes collaborations with different projects such as Micromondo, Transmigration, Open Source Estrogen with Mary Maggic, Fotosintetika.
Gaia is mainly dedicated to the creation of science labs/garages, but her interests also extend to Noise music. She is a developer of synthesizers and pedals, and gives workshops on electronics in collaboration with the artist Corazón de Robota and Oskar Martin. She is one of the founders of the Merda Elettronica collective. She collaborates in the organization of independent music festivals such as Multiversal, Radio Black Out noise, TPA and 76A Napolitan squatt. Gaia is a lover of video games, supports the Queer Games movement and the creation of transfeminist video games.

Gaia is also part of Wetlab, an artistic collective with residence in Hangar.

 

Within the Biofriction project, Gaia takes part in several activities such as the Transhackfeminist days, the Biofriction Summer Program and Paratext.

Biolab Conference

On Monday 15th of March at 6 pm CET, Elisava Research and Hangar hosted the BIOLAB CONFERENCE.

The conference aim was to dedicate a day to nature, materiality, bio-design and engineering.
During the day, each speaker talked about their researches or specific projects that they are developing.  with a final discussion.

Timeline and speakers:

Maria Boto, a researcher at KASK- School of Arts, University College Ghent.
Maria talked about the project “Ecology of Color. Research journey from nature to materiality”.
The project focused on the organ of colour in humans being which come from pigments and structures. The goal of the research is to become the bridge between nature and design by dissecting the bases of colour generation and translating them into an applicable and sustainable material.

Juan Crespo, PhD, Dr. Juan Crespo. Research Leader of Engineering, Design & Living Systems at ELISAVA Research BIOLAB.
Juan explored the “Growing Engineering & Design (and thus, bio)”. He talked about the concept of growing instead of violently manipulate nature to produce objects.
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.

Laura Benitez, PhD, Partner leader of Biofriction. Bio-disruptions.
With her presentation “On scale, care(s) and interdependence”,  Laura explained the Biofriction project and its approaches to experimental practices using biomaterials.
Experimentation with biomaterials not only allows humans 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.

The presentation was organized in the Framework of Elisava’s BioLab Week and the Master in Design through New Materials, and organized in collaboration with Biofriction, a project financed by the Creative Europe project and led by Hangar.

Art and science in the time of a pandemic

 

On the 27th of April, Hangar hosted an event Art and science in times of pandemic. The meeting included the participation of several speakers and a performance by the artist Mayra Citlalli Roj.

This dialogue is the first of a series of activities linked to the Hac Te project, promoted and hosted by its various partners, and aimed at disseminating, promoting and emphasizing the interrelations between different artistic, philosophical, scientific or technological communities.

The event is designed for both general and specialized audiences, with a dialogue that involves an artistic, philosophical, scientific point of view to have an interdisciplinary vision.  After an introduction of the Biofriction project and each speaker, the event goes through different phases and topics starting from the sharing of personal experiences and reflections on the practices of art and science in times of pandemic.

Biofriction led by Hangar, and on the other hand to the monographic node 27 of the scientific journal Artnodes of the UOC. All this in the context of the actions that will allow the progressive deployment of the Hac Te project in the city of Barcelona.

This event was organized by Hangar, together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Hac Te and its part of the European project Biofriction and is supported by the Creative Europe program. 

Speakers:

Lluís Nacenta (Barcelona) is a professor, writer and curator in the fields of music and contemporary art. Currently, he is the director of Hangar.

Mayra Citlalli Rojo (Mexico City) is a Mexican artist, researcher and interdisciplinary curator in visual arts and discourses of the body (gender and race), she researches in textile design and innovation.

Erich Berger (Helsinki) is an artist, curator and cultural worker based in Helsinki, Finland. His work focuses on the intersection of art, science and technology with a critical eye on how they transform society and the world.

Laura Benítez (Barcelona) is a PhD in Philosophy, researcher and independent curator. Her research connects philosophy, art(s) and technoscience.

Pau Alsina (Barcelona) is coordinator of Hac Te. D. in Philosophy and director of the interdisciplinary research group in Arts, Technoscience and Society (DARTS). He is an associate professor of Arts and Humanities Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and of the Official Master in Digital Art Curatorship (ESDI).

Anouchka Skoudy, PhD 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.

Biofriction exhibition

From the 17th of June to the 1st of August, Biofriction exhibition opens in a new cultural space in Lisbon.

The vernissage takes place on the 16th of June, at 6pm.

Biofriction exhibition is curated by Marta de Menezes and presented in partnership with the Biofriction partners : Hangar, Kapelica and Solu/Bio art Society.

The exhibition seeks to open a critical space where attendees feel questioned and discover that biotechnologies, art and life sciences are not just areas of expert knowledge, but power and political use, which affect the whole of society.

This project explores transdisciplinary artistic practices involving themes related to marginalization and exclusion. The title refers to a point in a surface of friction between biology, biotechnology, fiction and art. In this bio-friction, the emancipatory potential of biotechnology through artistic practices is explored with special attention.

The artworks include a variety of biomaterials and a marked role of the artist-activist. These projects have been developed during the artistic residencies in the different participating countries, under conditions influenced by contingency measures against Covid-19.

Taken as a whole, this exhibition wants to share cultural and political predicament where the projects carried out by the artists in residency present the issues worked on during the whole project. This show is the tangible result of the dialogue between artists and researchers that participated in all stages of Biofriction.

 

The artworks on display are especially diverse:

Joel Ong (Canada), during his residence in Portugal, created a project where he investigated the cloud microbiome and its own DNA, in a work that crosses climate change and biotechnology;
Simona Deaconescu (Romenia) and Vanessa Goodman (Canada) created an artwork that explores the movement and the relationship of our body with the bacteria that reside in us;
Mayra Gomez (México) has a work centred on botany and social activism;
Adriana Knouf (United States of America) reflects on feminism and estrogen as an essential hormone of women;
Laura Beloff (Finland) and Kira O’Reilly (Ireland) had a series of conversations with different experts, concerning ticks as vectors of multiple pathogens;
Christina Gruber (Austria) seeks to transform common field sampling practices through bioacoustics and sound recordings;
Vanesa Lorenzo (Switzerland) conceived biocompatible prosthesis, which challenges the concept of ornament, symbiose, gender and species;
Kinlab (Italy) perceived the women’s body around three-stage of life: adolescence, fertility and menopause;
Finally, the four Braiding Friction workgroups created diverse content about curatorial challenges during the times of the pandemic.

The opening event will be on the 16th of June, at 6 pm at Ectopia – Rua José Sobral Cid, N.16, in Lisbon.

About Marta de Menezes:

Marta de Menezes is an artist and curator, and a pioneer in the area of Bioart. Her artistic work has been exhibited on all continents and is usually referenced in publications dedicated to experimental art and to the intersection between art and science. As a curator, she has organized exhibitions at home and abroad on topics related to new media in fine arts.

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The exhibition is the culmination of a collaborative project supported by Creative Europe that involved institutions in four countries (Hangar from Spain, Cultivamos Cultura from Portugal, Kapelica Gallery from Slovenia and Solu/BAS from Finland).

 

Practical details:

When: 17th of June – 1st of August 2021 between 10 am and 3 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays and in July by appointment
Where: Ectopia – Rua JosEctopia – Rua José Sobral Cid, N.16, in Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: + 351 919193108

For more send an email to: info@cultivamoscultura.org

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Download the Biofriction Booklet, produced in English and Portuguese, consisting of critical texts and goes through the different projects that artists participating in the exhibition have developed during their Biofriction residency program.

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.