Art Laboratory Berlin

16/08/2023

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦 series continues with an artist talk with Margherita Pevere, titled Arts of Vulnerability. We are looking forward to welcoming you at Art Laboratory Berlin on 24 August, at 7 pm on-site for the talk.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦 (May – November 2023) is a series of talks and workshops focusing on artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around us. With reading groups, talks, workshops and podcasts we propose a net of narratives of permeability to encompass a poetic (post)natural history of being woman throughout 2023.

For the full program, check out the link on our website.

https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/events/permeable-bodies-program-overview/

13/08/2023

𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲
𝗛𝘆𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗝𝘂𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸

Opening: 1 September 2023, 8 pm (with an hour long-performance)
Running Time: 2 September – 8 October 2023
Thu – Sun, 2 – 6 pm

HyungJun Park’s solo exhibition 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚: 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖, 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙙𝙚 brings together three artworks, created in the last fifteen years.

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘲𝘶𝘺 is Park’s ongoing research and his Ph.D. project, focusing on human and machine dreaming. Park has been keeping dream diaries to explore human and machine consciousness. Within the hype of AI tools and their accessibility, machine learning tools have been used more often in the new media art scene in recent years. AI tools have been criticized as heavily biased – white, Eurocentric, homophobic and misogynist through the content it has learned from its users. In contrast, in his artistic research, Park delves into machine learning from a subjective point of view and creates a unique dataset based on the dreams and images he has collected over the years. Based on his dreams, the AI tool creates (or dreams) new, humorous and absurd narratives based on the text and image that has been fed by the artist.

08/08/2023

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 | 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲

Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin (on-site!)
Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
Date and time: 24 August 2023, 7 pm

What does it mean to be vulnerable — and what may leaks tell us about bodies and environments in posthuman terms?

Dr Margherita Pevere has addressed these questions through bioart and performance. Ash, slugs, cellulose-producing bacteria, bioreagents, drawing, writing: diverse materials constellate her artistic research and come together in celebration of leaky matters and relations.

Alongside discussing the artworks Wombs and Lament, the artist will guide us though a nuanced discussion in feminist and q***r terms about materiality, vulnerability, and the entanglements of life and death.

What emerges are two concepts — ‘arts of vulnerability’ and ‘poetics of uncontainability’ — which, while coming from the arts, may have something to say about these very unstable times.

What does it mean to be vulnerable and leaky – and what may vulnerability and leaks tell us about bodies and environments in posthuman terms? Dr Margherita Pevere has addressed these questions through artistic research involving bioart and performance. In context of our ongoing series "Permeable B...

05/08/2023

𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲
𝗛𝘆𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗝𝘂𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸

HyungJun Park’s solo exhibition 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦: 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢, 𝘙𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦 brings together three artworks, created in the last fifteen years. Park’s artistic exploration focuses on the relationship between machines and humans as well as humans and nonhuman beings. He connects and exposes nonhuman sensorial experiences through technological tools for human body experiences that mimic other perceptions.

The upcoming exhibition opens on 1 September, 8 pm at Art Laboratory Berlin. Curated by Tuçe Erel & Juha Lee.



https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/exhibitions/artificial-consciousness/

03/08/2023

This week, we are looking back to the exhibition:
𝘿𝙄𝙔 𝙃𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚
𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧
𝘿𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙀𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a documentary exhibition on the previous and ongoing research of DIY Hack the Panke. The exhibition includes documentation of the collective’s actions, as well as ongoing findings and publications of some of the members.

The exhibition also showed ongoing artistic experiments with living matter and materiality. Related to selected previous events the exhibition presents various art science installations by artist-designer Fara Peluso, artist Sarah Hermanutz and biologist India Mansour with artist Sybille Neumeyer. Additionally, on-site we shared a wide collection of texts and recent publications by the members on view for the public.

The exhibition invites to reflect on what Hybrid Art and shared knowledge through transdisciplinary research mean in times of ecological mega crisis in a posthuman era.

In relation to this documentary exhibition, we also did interviews with the artists who are part of the DIY Hack the Panke since the beginning to share their experiences. The documentary video, Learning from the River is prepared by Tuçe Erel. You can watch the short version on our website and the extended version on our youtube channel.

https://youtu.be/PUsgFx3e56w

01/08/2023

This year, we met two amazing researchers, Susanne Wegmann and Ekaterina Semenova, from Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE). We collaborated with them for WhiteFeather Hunter's installation at the Matter of Flux exhibition. Susanne Wegmann, one of the group leaders at DZNE and her colleague Ekaterina Semenova works on stem cells, were great collaboration partners for WhiteFeather's ongoing research.

After the exhibition, as the curatorial team, Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz and Tuçe Erel, we visited DZNE and talked about their research on site. Thank you for welcoming us into your work space and giving us a tour of your labs. We hope to meet and collaborate again in the future!

30/07/2023

Art Laboratory Berlin is glad to launch a new Podcast Channel 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗘𝗦, starting in 2023, supported by the Berlin Senate. The podcast series was conceived by Tuçe Erel, with composition and production by Korhan Erel. Each year the podcast will have a special theme, and the subject matter of 2023 will complement the series 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦. Each curatorial team member – Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel – interviews artists and scientists, and the series will spread throughout the year.

The podcasts, around 20 minutes each, are scheduled and published on the last Tuesday of May, June, September, October and November.

In our interview series for 2023, we would like to inform our audience about our guest artists and scientists as well as the researchers’ interest and how their focus is relevant to our series 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦. Our program 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦 deals with the human body, especially women’s bodies, and their metamorphosis under the biopolitics and body politics of the Capitalocene.

In the first episode of our new Podcast series, our guest is artist and researcher Adriana Knouf, speaking about her art projects, scientific research and speculative fiction. The artist was interviewed by Tuçe Erel on 11 May 2023.

The second episode of Sonic Ecologies features another guest of Permeable Bodies, Lyndsey Walsh. Lyndsey is one of the artists of the Matter of Flux exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin and talks about their art-project Self-Care. Art Laboratory Berlin curator Christian de Lutz interviewed Lyndsey on 14 June 2023.

https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/research/sonic-ecologies/

28/07/2023

Last year from 21 May to 10 July 2022, Art Laboratory Berlin presented the "HACKERS, MAKERS, THINKERS" group exhibition, curated by Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Tuçe Erel and Tengal Drilon. This project explored how hacking could be a tool for artistic and curatorial research.

During the exhibition and public program, we initiated workshops with the motto of "Doing it With Others" (DIWO), which helped us to reconnect, rebuild and re-energize damaged social relations after the harsh lockdowns of COVID-19.

TERRESTRIAL-CELESTIAL is a new work by the South-Korean artist collective Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) realized during their 2022 Berlin residency. Basing their artistic research on social fermentation, they collaborate with local urban gardeners, exploring human-nonhuman companionships, decolonial histories and local belief systems through the intercultural resonance of collective conversations and actions.

Seokkeodungdung: Doing “Social Fermentation” was a workshop by RBSC on 4 June 2022, in which the artists introduced their project that works as a culturing home for microorganisms collected from rice, soil, and human hands. They explained their approach of “seokkeodungdung,” a socio-microbial experiment of mixing, floating, caring, and situating “in the field.” The RBSC gave an insight into how social fermentation enables us to be grounded in the earth we live in while traversing boundaries between migration, localization, and indigeneity in Berlin.

For further information about the entire program, including the livestreamed conference recording, and six positions in the group exhibition, featuring Irene Agrivina, Interspecifics, Pei-Ying Lin, Cammack Lindsey, Constanza Piña Pardo and Rice Brewing Sisters Club, follow this link: https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/exhibitions/hackers-makers-thinkers-exhibition/

Photo: Tim Deussen

24/07/2023

Two weeks ago, Art Laboratory Berlin team visited the Rillig Group | Ecology of Plants, Institute of Biology, Freie Universtität Berlin. We were welcomed by the Rillig Group and taken on a tour of the department.

Some of the Rillig Group members we met during our visits were
Prof. Matthias C. Rillig
Dr. India Mansour
Dr. Stefanie Maaß
Catharina Neumann

Thank you for your hospitality and conversation.

We are thankful for our ongoing collaboration with Rillig Group and look forward to more in the future.

18/07/2023

We welcomed AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research) for a lecture performance on the first day of Matter of Flux festival.

We are very grateful to create a platform for exchange and encounter of FLINTA* community in the field of Art, Science and Technology.

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📺The lecture performance video given by AFSAR study group members will be released on AFSAR youtube channel soon ;)

✍️The performance script was written by:
Charmaine Poh ,
Hanwen Zhang ,
Park Hye-in .8ein,
Mooni Perry ,
Yan Lin ,
Musquiqui Chihying ,
You Feng ,
Eugene Hannah Park

📸 Photo by .m.schmitz

17/07/2023

In our last exhibition, we welcomed Shulea Cheang's collaborative work UNBORN0x9 in the Matter of Flux exhibition.

We look forward to seeing her feature film UKI in its Berlin premiere this week. The two-day event is hosted by LAS Art Foundation at Kranzler Eck (21 – 22 July) with a rich and vibrant program.

Developed as a sequel to Cheang’s cyberpunk film
I.K.U. (2000), UKI is the culmination of a 14-year artistic exploration into viral love, bio-hacking and q***r futures.

It will be great to see Shu Lea in person again in town and celebrate with her.

12/07/2023

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a live-streamed Reading Group session on 15 July 2023, from 6 – 8 pm CET. This event is the final event of the Reading Group ULTRASOUND that had met online for four weeks.

In the context of our new series 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦, Art Laboratory Berlin launches a series of online reading groups as fork-out project of 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗡𝟬𝘅𝟵 showing in the exhibition Matter of Flux.

Initiated by Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet with Future Baby Production, 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗡𝟬𝘅𝟵 reflects on the techno-scientific developments in obstetrical medicine, its social, cultural, philosophical and prospective implications and to offer an artistic view of the science in the making.

During 2021-2022, 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗡𝟬𝘅𝟵 was part of the EU platform ART4MED.eu, which focuses on a methodological framework that fosters collaboration between artists, health and biomedical researchers. The online reading group aims to enable cross-border knowledge exchange – across nations, races, genders, real and virtual borders. For the studies in three specific topics – 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱, 𝗘𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀, 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆, the online web platform incorporates reading materials, co-writing pads and online chats as multiple interface entries. Guided by a LEADER with 10 registered READERS, the online reading group aims for in-depth research/studies and motivates public debate on these topics of concern.

The second online reading group with the focus on Ultrasound is scheduled to launch on 15 June 2023 for one month duration, ending with a online reading performance public event on 15 July 2023. We have invited Dr Julie Roberts as the LEADER of the Ultrasound reading group.

Live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpb9uktbak&ab_channel=ArtLaboratoryBerlin

11/07/2023

The 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗫 festival ended with a meeting where contributors give feedback about the festival.
The Matter of Flux festival preparation started with prep-meetings in February and March. There were three in-person sessions transformed into smaller clusters in which contributors proposed the concepts and formats that created the Matter of Flux Festival between 15 to 18 June 2023. This closing meeting was not just a simple end, it was a comma that shows the interest and wishes to continue to work collectively in the future. Thank you again to all our contributors of Matter of Flux, who joined this network.

10/07/2023

On the last day of the Matter of Flux festival, the 'Vessels for Water' Workshop by the HYDRO-RELATIONS cluster took place.
Jemma Woolmore, Lena Johanna Reisner, Nayeli Vega, and Sarah Hermanutz took the participants on an emotional journey. The idea of the workshop was to create a ritual for connection, and in order to do that, we were referring to ancient practices of collecting water. Workshops leaders have prepared vessels for water before; participants could take one for themselves.
Then the workshop leaders invited the participants to performatively interact with the element of water and develop various forms to communicate about our interactions with water. We found impressively playful ways of introducing one another in relation to waters, rivers or seas.
The walk along the river Panke related the participants to a local concrete water site and let the vessels be filled with river water to carry them back to the festival site. Connected to this act of care, there were countless conversations about water and the potential of hydro-relationships on social, ecological, and biographical levels.

09/07/2023

Let's say something about our probably the most bizarre activity at the Matter of Flux Festival – the SMELL workshop conducted by two artists Lyndsey Walsh & Alanna Lynch. In order to experiment with smells and conjure different stenches all together, Alanna and Lyndsey began by familiarizing us with Canidia, Rome's first witch, who used magic through bad smells. It continued with a stincky sock from a teenager, a very old (smelly per kilometer) cheese, and a few month old dirt of the ashtray. There were also a few extreme examples of stincky objects from our participants from which we distilled them as a shared smell! Participants have also a chance to extract selected smells from individual items that they brought themselves.
During discussion we looked more in depth at how femininity and bad smells can be linked to witchcraft. We looked also at what makes things stinky, why we perceive them as smelling bad, and looked at the social and cultural aspects surrounding this.

09/07/2023

Please join us today on the last day of the Matter of Flux exhibition. The curators will be present on-site to welcome and guide you in the exhibition. The doors are open till 18:00.

MATTER OF FLUX
Artistic Research
WhiteFeather Hunter | Lyndsey Walsh | Shu Lea Cheang and Ewen Chardronnet

The exhibited artworks critically reflect about nature, matter and health of female and nonbinary bodies through artistic and scientific research – exploring the use of menstrual serum for tissue culture, proposing new modes of care within the context of female and nonbinary health and discussing both traditional forms and new possibilities of reproduction. In context of the group exhibition, Art Laboratory Berlin will also realise a festival of the same title in June 2023 that seeks to initiate a wider network of and for female and nonbinary artists, scholars and cultural players in art, science and technology.

08/07/2023

On the third day, Annika Haas invited us to use our bodies to express ourselves in relation to others and machines.
The workshop LIQUIFYING LANGUAGE was about focusing on one's own language and writing. Each of us chose a concrete word or concept that wanted to be changed or even let go of. In order to come into a better exchange with our very own and individual writing and to understand better about our writing, we developed different exercises - each for itself. To make writing more fluid, each of us developed a concrete sequence of movements with the addition of fluids. Through this - as it also turned out in the conversations afterwards - we were able to get closer to ourselves, hinder ourselves less in our own writing process and develop a greater intimacy for writing our own texts. The workshop was marked by valuable actions of soma technique(s), which actively supported the flow of one's own language.

07/07/2023

Selen Solak, Marianna Szczygielska and Baldeep Kaur made us think about the eco-glitter world, eliciting reflection about microplastics, pollution, and technology. We spent about an hour cooking and questioning why it is so important to solve the problems of plastic pollution, but with humor and a very fun atmosphere. We made non-polluting glitter, talking about the yield of these and how to improve the performance of ecological glitter. Prof. Dr. Nicole Seymour, the author of the book Glitter, was the vitual guest of honor to join the discussion.

06/07/2023

Throughout the Matter of Flux Festival, the Leaky Cycles Cluster held a series of activities. The final session they initiated was a role play in which participants could devote themselves to a performative dimension. Cammack Lindsey invited us to explore soil as a site of both the return and emergence of life by collectively voicing multiple beings in a grounding performance. Using the zine from
their earlier workshop as a guide for world-building, participants took off to the nearby cemetery to decompose and partake in a role-playing activity to act out and develop a deeper understanding of our topics on cycles of matter, cultures, and knowledge.

“Soil is a testimony that everything on earth is matter made of matter, that has been
matter of something else. As we die, we return to the soil. We are matter passing,
shapeshifting forms through a finite Earth” (Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, in: Dayna Casey
& Erika Sprey (Ed.). Earth Craft Zine 4. The word for world is soil, 2022).

06/07/2023

Ten years ago this week, Art Laboratory Berlin held a fascinating conference: 𝙎𝙔𝙉𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙎𝙄𝘼, 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙋𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨, 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 (𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤-)𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚.

During this conference, which brought together different humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences scholars, synaesthesia was discussed thoroughly with a historical and contemporary perspective.

The term “synaesthesia” comes from the Greek syn: together; and aisthesis: sensation, sensory impression. It means the experience of two or more sensory impressions simultaneously.

There is a strong interest in the coupling of the senses in science, humanities and contemporary art. Multimedia and multisensory experiences have characterized and stimulated this interest in recent decades.

We invite you to look at our web page, where you can find videos of the conference and discussions after ten years of technological innovation and socio-economic changes. Reflect on how current the issues are still and on the evolution of our perception.

Conference speakers & contributors: Hinderk M. Emrich, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Sina A. Trautmann-Lengsfeld, Larisa Prokofyeva, Polina Dimova, Eva-Maria Bolz, James Rosenow, Birgit Schneider, David Strang, Eva Kimminich, Caro Verbeek, Gertrud Koch, Sabine Flach, Madi Boyd, Agnieszka Janik, Katharina Gsöllpointner & Romana Schuler, Romi Mikulinsky.

https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/events/synaesthesia-conference/

05/07/2023

The COMPOST Zine Lounge was one of the activities in which we were able to express our creativity and give life to our Compost Zine. After an exciting exchange of ideas, colours, photos, drawings, and texts, the zine pieces emerged from the soil, climate and life cycles we shared and exchanged. These works will be a fundamental contribution to the realization of a more articulated and final version of the Zine. This activity was possible thanks to the work of India Mansour, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Cammack Lindsey, Sybille Neumeyer, Lena Fließbach, and Cansu Tekin.

03/07/2023

The MicroCosMoss Workshop was an immersive experience. We had the opportunity to forget the dimensions of our bodies for a moment, to immerse ourselves entirely in the Micro Cosmos of mosses, in an intimate relationship between the human gaze and nature. Through Lucy Powel's voice and her readings, we were able to enter a new dimension, open to listening and understanding this world that is little explored in our daily lives. Through the microscope lenses, pieces and bits of moss came from the St. Elisabeth cemetery park to the theater's café, where we have established a connection to mosses. We flew from sensory immersion and somatic meditation into drawing, mapping and naming. This evocative experience ended with the collection of reflections and sharings on the life of mosses, improving their life quality, adaptability, sexuality, as well as their symbioses and interactions.

Thank you Susanne Jaschko, Jacky Hess, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Lucy Powell for this wonderful workshop during the Matter of Flux Festival.

01/07/2023

During the second day of the festival, two lecture performances took place under the title of SITES OF VEGETAL LIFE which presented the artists' approach to plants and environments in urban life. In the first part, Alice Cannavà and Lisa Bell Weisdorf explored topics such as harvesting practical, theoretical knowledge from the cultivation, site-specific encounters and city plant life. Their presentation addressed past and in-progress research combining field and archival work, art-making and deliberate noticing, urban ecology and local history, and permaculture and psychogeography.

Afterwards, Käthe Wenzel and Susanne Schmitt shared a fascinating use of plants for ink making and distillation. This knowledge-sharing, which took place through a talk-show-like performative presentation, was very stimulating to open a discussion around the plant world.

30/06/2023

This weekend is Kolonie Wedding weekend, so we are open until 21:00 today. Also, don't forget that there are only two weeks left to visit the Matter of Flux Exhibition, featuring 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘣 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘵 (since 2019) by artist and researcher WhiteFeather Hunter, 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦 by Lyndsey Walsh, and 𝘜𝘕𝘉𝘖𝘙𝘕0𝘹9 by Shu Lea Cheang together with Ewen Chardronnet.

The exhibited artworks critically reflect on the nature, matter and health of female and nonbinary bodies through artistic and scientific research – exploring the use of menstrual serum for tissue culture, proposing new modes of care within the context of female and nonbinary health and discussing both traditional forms and new possibilities of reproduction. In the context of the group exhibition, Art Laboratory Berlin will also realise a festival of the same title in June 2023 that seeks to initiate a more comprehensive network of and for female and nonbinary artists, scholars and cultural players in art, science and technology.

Art Laboratory Berlin is open Thursday to Sunday between 14:00 - 18:00.

29/06/2023

During the 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗫 festival, Kristina Stallvik created an installation titled The Fluxional Shelf, which investigates the relationship between the spatial and architectural framework in our daily actions.

They eradicated the taboo around the bathroom space and recreate a fluid reading room. That installation aimed to reflect on the spontaneous re-embodied of our bathrooms at the festival as a place to read or have new ideas. The participants have been involved in this very intimate and individual consideration. The participants were invited to photocopy the texts already presented and also welcomed to suggest and add new texts for further reading, reflection and exchange.

27/06/2023

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗦
Self-Care
A Podcast interview with 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗵

Art Laboratory Berlin is happy to announce the second episode of Sonic Ecologies, featuring a conversation between Lyndsey Walsh and Christian de Lutz. Lyndsey Walsh's work Self-Care is part of the Matter of Flux exhibition. In relation to the exhibition, for our ongoing series Permeable Bodies, Lyndsey took part in an artist talk on 25 June. Following up on the talk, our podcast is live on our channel.

Self-Care is Lyndsey Walsh’s artistic attempt to reckon with ruptures in their identity caused by the rising use of genetic diagnostics in medicine. Using Lyndsey’s own body, Self-Care weaves a narrative about health, gender, and identity that seeks to resist the confines of the medical gaze. This talk will explore the larger body of research that has given way to Lyndsey’s artwork. Self-Care’s name emerges as a critique of the popularizing role of individual responsibility for health in preventative medicine, which has led to individual choices being depicted either as acts of heroics or offenses to the sanctity of health. Exploring how the self is built in the time spent in doctor’s offices, the waiting room, and the spaces in between, Lyndsey will give us insights into the country-specific and ever-uncertain role that genetic testing plays in predicting and attempting to prevent diseases, as well as the how these biotechnological ways of perceiving the body collide and intersect with gender, family, and care.

26/06/2023

Instant Storytelling was another exciting activity that characterized the M*F festival. During these sessions about three to six people came together in each session, that they shared ideas about how to communicated on the multiplicity of techniques for understanding. These spontaneous and vibrant discussions were always initiated with a question and an accompanying object. These practices made us reflect on the importance of good communication in sharing important and complex themes of science. It was very stimulating to see how a concept created a wave of thoughts, stories, ideas that flow in a fluid and vibrant story.
Thanks to s Anne Hölck, Nicola Maria Hochkeppel and Aslı Dinç for this challenging and very useful exercise.

25/06/2023

During the entire festival, the Cluster Critical History of Technology was always busy with the Zine-Making workshop. Throughout the festival the cluster had the opportunity to deepen the concepts of "biographical material" and how technology manipulates our lives and society. In their conversations, interesting and stimulating points of views and ideas emerged. We have interconnected with our personal experiences, fears and memories. Through a feminist and holistic approach, all these reflections were materialized in a zine making workshop at the last day of the festival.

Now we just have to wait for the final version zine that will be released in two months.

Thanks to Selen Solak, Marianna Szczygielsk, Hanwen Zhang and, Baldeep Kaur who held this interesting process-based workshop.

24/06/2023

On the first and second days of the Matter of Flux, we had a two-day workshop OCTOPUSSYNTRIC, conceptualised and led by Constanza Piña Pardo (artist, dancer, researcher Berlin/ Chile), Nicol Rivera Aro (artist, researcher, dramaturg, Berlin/ Chile), pamela varela (artist, activist, poet, Berlin, Mexico), Flo Razoux (biologist, educator, Berlin/ Marseille). During the workshop, the contributors started with conceptual and theoretical presentations and continued with hands work. On the second day, the participants worked collectively to create objects with electronics and sensors used for the performance at the M*F Club Night at Panke Club.

24/06/2023

During Reading Groups we had the opportunity to discuss, reflect, learn, listen and discover more and more from beyond the human perspectives. Texts, quotes, and stories from scientific texts have been stimulating for our debate. The collective reading and listening session has created the red threat in the activities of Leaky Cycles cluster. We thank for this moment: India Mansour, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Cammack Lindsey, Sybille Neumeyer, Lena Fließbach, Cansu Tekin.