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 Artist-in-residence ADRIANA KNOUF @ Kapelica Gallery

In the video document, Biofriction artist-in-residence Adriana Knouf talks about developing her project Xenological Entanglements. 001: Eromatase during her residency at Kapelica Gallery. She touches upon several aspects of the project, ranging from her childhood desire to go to space, xenology, self-experimentation, hormones, relationships between art, science and technology, to Leydig cell cultivation, thin-layer chromatography, […]
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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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Biofriction Radio: Adriana Knouf

  Biofriction Radio is a collection of podcasts interviewing Biofriction artists in residence exploring evolutionary biology, artistic practices, and thoughts from experimental research with biotech. In the podcast, Adriana Knouf, Biofriction artist in residence at Kersnikova, talks about her project Xenological Entanglements. 001: Eromatase, which she began developing during her Biofriction residency at Kapelica Gallery […]
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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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