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Open Call Results

Resolution of Biofriction open call for the residencies in Hangar, Kapelica, Bioart Society and Cultivamos Cultura.

Biofriction selection committee, formed by Lluís Nacenta (Hangar), Laura Benitez Valero (Biofriction Art Director), Erich Berger (Bioart Society), Simon Streljaj (Kapelica), Marta de Menezes (Cultivamos Cultura), Quimera Rosa (external jury member) and Isabelle Carlier from Bandit Mages  (external jury member) has decided, among the 133 valid applications received, to award the grant to:

Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano (Kinlab) (one-month long residency in Hangar)

Vanessa Lorenzo (one-month long residency in Hangar)

Adriana Knouf (two-months long residency in Kapelica)

Mayra Rojo Citlalli (one-month long residency in Bioart Society)

Joel Ong (two-weeks long residency in Cultivamos Cultura)

Kira O’Reily (two-weeks long residency in Cultivamos Cultura)

Christina Gruber (two-weeks long residency in Cultivamos Cultura)

Simona Deaconescu & Vanessa Goodman (two-weeks long residency in Cultivamos Cultura)

We sincerely thank all participants and wish all the best to the awarded artists for their Biofriction residence.

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Biofriction. Intersection between arts, sciences and technologies

Here you will find “Biofriction. Intersection between arts, sciences and technologies“, the official publication on the Biofriction project.

The essay consists of several critical texts divided into six parts to give a broad and complete idea of the project. 

Narrative
Describes the development of the Biofriction project over time, emphasizing, through a fluid and personal narration, the fundamental principles of the project, based on the idea of collective work and creative sharing. 

Frictions
Highlights the main obstacles that occurred during the project, using keywords that guide the narrative.

Glossary
Provides the fundamental definitions of the Biofriction project. It is worth mentioning that this is not a glossary with the presumption of giving universal definitions but, as stated in the text, a “situated” glossary within the Biofriction project.

Protocols
Highlights the principles and behavioural working protocols fundamental during the Biofriction project.

MIT_SEING
Describes the project’s adaptability given the global pandemic. In particular, it is highlighted how many activities dealt with the virus, bringing to light various topical questions and arguments. 

Qualitative & quantitative data
Here are summarized the survey’s results of both the participants and the Biofriction artists-in-residence. The main goal was to understand the participant profile and their experience when involved in the Biofriction program.

Mika Taanila

BIO

Mika Taanila is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki.

Taanila’s works have been shown at major international group shows, such as La Biennale di Venezia (2017), Aichi Triennale (2013), Documenta (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006), Berlin Biennale (2004), Manifesta (2002) and Istanbul Biennial (2001). Solo shows include Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau in Bologna (2020), EMMA Espoo (2018), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2013–14), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2013), TENT, Rotterdam (2013), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2008), Dazibao, Montréal (2007) and Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2005).

Taanila’s films have been screened at several international film festivals and special events including TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, IFFR Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, Midnight Sun Film Festival, CPH:DOX, IDFA Amsterdam, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Austrian Filmmuseum, ICA and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Ars Fennica Award 2015 was presented to Mika Taanila.

https://mikataanila.com/

photo by Sanna Skants

Within the Biofriction Project, Mika takes part in the Photosonic Landscapes Panel.

Saša Spačal

BIO

Saša Spačal is a post-media artist working at the intersection of living systems research, contemporary and sound art. Her work focuses primarily on the posthuman condition, where human beings exist and act as one of many elements in the ecosystem and not as sovereigns. Therefore abandoning the Cartesian system of classification and accepting the fact that the field of technology has expanded not only from hardware to software but also to wetware resulting in hybrid phenomena inscribed in mechanical, digital and organic logic.
Her work was exhibited and performed at venues and festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Prix Cube Exhibition (FR), Transmediale Festival (DE), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), Centre de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona – CCCB (ES), Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (RUS), Onassis Cultural Center Athens (GR), Chronos Art Center (CHN), Laboratoria Art & Science Foundation / New Tretyakov Gallery (RUS), Prague City Gallery (CZ), Cynetart Festival (DE), National Art Museum of China (CHN), Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (SI), Kapelica Gallery (SI), Device_art (CRO), Art Laboratory Berlin (DE), Kiblix Festival (SI), Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje (SI), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SRB), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sonica Festival (SI). Her works received awards and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Starts Prize, Japan Media Art Award, Prix Cube, New Technology Art Award and New Aesthetica Prize.

 

Within the Biofriction project, Saša takes part in the lecture Grounding symbiosis, sonifying care.

Mayra Citlalli Rojas, remote artistic residency

From January 7 to February 4 of 2021, Mayra Citlalli Rojas has been an online Biofriction resident. During her remote residence with Bioart Society, she continued her research project on domestication in the history of the evolution of anatomy-botany and will have the specific objective of locating 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.

As a result of her virtual residency research, Mayra presents a video presentation of her project.

 

 

 

Streaming Brading Friction | Aero-sol-nauts

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed activities, Biofriction has set up Braiding Friction, a series of Working Groups and online events to instigate an informed discussion on the current situation and possible scenarios.

The video is the online streaming that presents the research of the working group Aero-sol-nauts  that presents their research on the disintegration of the thick now and the fluidity of the memory.

The working group was composed by: Špela Petrič, Leslie García, Adriana Knouf, Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, Ingrid Vranken.