Open Source Body: Documentation
Documentation and videos of the conferences, performances, workshops and installations of Open Source Body festival 2021.
European programmes
“Virus Becoming”: Shu Lea Cheang on Viral Love Biohack
Makery met with Shu Lea Cheang, on the occasion of the presentation of “Virus Becoming”, an exhibition that was held at the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts in Nice this May. For more than 40 years, artist Shu Lea Cheang, born in Taiwan and trained in USA, has been shaking up the framework of media…
The Smell of the Human: Bio-reactors for the skin
Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator and educator and Lucy Ojomoko is a molecular biologist and artist. For the Art4Med programme at Kersnikova Institute in Slovenia they propose together to create genetically modified bacteria of human skin microbiome that affect the sense of smell transmitted by the human body, a radical approach…
Open Source Body: BadLab’s eco-feminist DIY art
For the Open Source Body festival organized by Makery, the Swiss collective BadLab will give a workshop on May 22 at the Volumes Lab of the Oasis21 cooperative in Paris. Who is BadLab? Makery went to met them in Switzerland. Rendez-vous with BadLab in late April at Cima Città, a cultural site in southern Switzerland’s…
Feral labs Network: New Proximity, Non-Formal Learning at the Heart of Self-Reliant Communities
On the occasion of the end of a cycle of the Feral Labs Network – a Creative Europe cooperation programme co-funded by the European Union (2019-2021) – and the release of the associated publication “Feral Labs Node Book #1: Rewilding Culture”, Stefanie Wuschitz from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory proposes an essay on non-formal learning and self-reliant…
Feral Labs Network: “Going Feral” by Luis Campos
On the occasion of the end of a cycle of the Feral Labs Network – a Creative Europe cooperation programme co-funded by the European Union (2019-2021) – and the release of the associated publication “Feral Labs Node Book #1: Rewilding Culture”, Luis Campos proposes the essay “Going Feral”. Feral: From ferus (L.) – wild. 1….
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS, Covid edition: “meeting and exchanging in real space”
Initiated two years ago by artists Benjamin Gaulon and Dasha Ilina, Nø School is a conceptually alternative anti-school spanning two weeks of talks, workshops and practical activities in Nevers, France. Located in France’s Burgundy region, which has been suffering from depopulation over the past years, this international summer school is also a symbol of decentralization,…
Feral Labs: Resilient Micro-systems and Experimental Territories
On the occasion of the end of a cycle of the Feral Labs Network – a Creative Europe cooperation programme co-funded by the European Union (2019-2021) – and the release of the associated publication “Feral Labs Node Book #1: Rewilding Culture”, Xavier Fourt of the Bureau d’études collective proposes a speculative essay on “Resilient micro-systems…
Dr. Adriana Knouf aims for transgender space travelling
Adriana Knouf will be the ART4MED artist in residency at Waag Society in Amsterdam in 2021. Tonya Sudiono asks her questions to know who is she, where did she come from (hint: outer space) and what is she planning to do at Waag. ART4MED is the program that fosters encounters between art practices and biomedical…
ART4MED: a 2 years program where “Art Meets Health and Biomedical Research”
Medical equipment has played a key role in many scientific revolutions that have extended our means of observation beyond the five human senses. Nevertheless, the current supply chain limits access, creativity and customization. Citizen science, hacker/maker movements, DIY culture activists and investigative artists have addressed this problem by sharing open designs of small scientific instruments…
Makers’ mobility and non-formal education: interview with Tina Dolinšek
As part of MakersXchange (MAX) efforts to define the state of the art of mobility programs for makers, Makery and UPTEC Porto are conducting a series of in-depth user interviews with makers to understand user needs for embedding makers in MAX’s Pilot project mobility scheme. First interview with Tina Dolinšek, project coordinator at Projekt Atol…
Makers’ mobility in time of Covid: interview with Deborah Hustić, from Radiona makerspace in Zagreb
As part of MakersXchange (MAX) efforts to define the state of the art of mobility programs for makers, Makery and UPTEC Porto are conducting a series of in-depth user interviews with makers to understand better their needs and embed them in the future Pilot program. New interview with Deborah Hustić, creative director, project manager, curator…