BLOT – Body Line of Thought

🗓️ From the 14th of November 12 PM until 15th of November 12 AM (GMT time) Between November 12th and  November 15th, takes place the premiere of BLOT project – Body Line of Thought, an international collaboration between choreographers Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman, selected Biofriction artists in residence. The premiere will take place in […]
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FREAKTION BAR #14: ‘Intoxicated by Estrogen’

Open discussin: 3rd of December, 2020 ⏰ 19:00 h 📍Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova Institute, Kersnikova 4, Ljubljana 🗣️ Guest speakers: Lea Aymard, dr. NeĹža Grgurevič, Pia Brezavšček, dr. Adriana Knouf / Moderator: Domen OgrajenĹĄek Hormones permeate our bodies, messengers that guide the actions of cellular processes on micro and macro levels. Sex hormones, such as […]
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Bio-autonomous Farming

How many kinds of female ejaculation do you know? Can a brain orgasm be transformed into a renewable energy source in times of disaster? In this workshop, Isabel Burr Raty presented the essentials of the bio-autonomous female farming system employed at her Beauty Kit Farm, where was exploring some of these questions with the workshop participants. This farm is […]
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Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations

Lecture performance: October 7, 2020 @8PM 📍 Kapelica Gallery, Kersnikova 4, Ljubljana Xenological Entanglements is a multi-year project exploring the xenomogrificationof the tranxxeno body. With altered scientific technologies the artist makes herself the other. In 001. Eromatase at the Kapelica Gallery/Kersnikova Institute, the artist aims to genetically engineer testicular cells (known as Leydig cells) to overproduce oestrogen within a microgravity context. […]
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Kira O’Reilly

BIO Kira O’Reilly is an Irish artist based in Helsinki, her practice, both willfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined stems from a visual art background, it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around the body. She makes, writes, teaches, mentors and collaborates with humans of various types and technologies and […]
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