Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations perfomance

The video explores and shows the performance Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations held by the Biofriction artist Adriana Knouf. Xenological Entanglements is a multi-year project exploring the xenomogrification of 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 […]
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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, […]
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Biofriction Summer Program Diary

Day 1: WETLAB After several last minutes changes, updates and vicissitudes the Summer program has finally started. To break the ice and get people to know each other the participants were welcomed with a coffee break in Hangar venue. Afterwards, Laura Benítez Valero did an introduction of the Biofriction project and the Summer Program activities. […]
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Xose Quiroga

BIO Xose Quiroga (Ourense 1979), Bachelor in Law and Artistic Photography Technician, has participated in collective exhibitions in Spain, United States, Peru, Sweden, Italy, England, France, Australia and Spain. Co-director of the Institute for the Comunity Monitoring of Contaminated Areas (from the Spanish Instituto para la Monitorización Vecinal de Espacios Contaminados), he is also a […]
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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 […]
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Sonic fictions. Workshop by Helen Torres

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, […]
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