SummerLab 2021_Elements of Care

Thanks to the Creative European project Biofriction, Hangar and Cultivamos Cultura started a new partnership. As part of the project, Cultivamos Cultura and Hangar, in July 2021 organized the 4th of SummerLab 2021, entitled Elements of Care. Nowadays, the intersection of Art, Biology and Environment offer a great opportunity to visual artists.  For this reason, […]
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‘Xenological Entanglements. 001b: Saccular Fount’

On the 23rd of March 2021 at Zavod Kersnikova in Street Likozarjeva 1, Ljubljana, the inauguration of Saccular Fount a speculative wearable device that suggests a near-term future where personal hormone production is both possible and necessary. She needs what it provides, badly. She’s intoxicated by the estrogen molecule, a rather simple thing really, yet […]
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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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Vanesa Lorenzo

BIO Vanessa Lorenzo is a researcher and trans-disciplinary designer based in Switzerland. Trained as a product design engineer and media designer, she focuses on objects that address intimate interdependencies between humans and the ecologies we are embedded in. Influenced by ethno-fiction, feminist theory and speculative design methology, she creates scenarios embedding people, the more-than-human and […]
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Maddalena Fragnito and Zoe Romano (Kinlab)

  BIO Zoe Romano is a craftivist, digital strategist and lecturer focused on social innovation, women in tech, technology, open design. She graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, worked for several years in digital communication and tech, developed her social skills as media-hacktivist on precarity, material and immaterial labor in the creative industries. […]
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