Terike Haapoja

BIO Terike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. With a specific focus on encounters with nature, death and other species, Haapoja’s work investigates the existential and political boundaries of our world. Haapoja’s work raises questions about how different structures of exclusion and discrimination function as foundations for identity and culture. The notion […]
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Streaming Braiding Friction | Staying in touch

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 Staying in Touch: post-coronavirus art […]
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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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Joanna Zylinska

BIO Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of new technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. She is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 1 September 2021 she will be Professor of Media Philosophy & Critical Digital Practice in the Department […]
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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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