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Psychanalysis of the international airport
I can’t think of a place that’s more artificial, more regulated and more frustrating than an airport. With each passing year, the rules to navigate it get more draconian, the security procedures more...
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Economia: Methods for Reclaiming Economy
In April 2017, Baltan Laboratories organized Economia: a festival about the economy without the economists. I wrote about it extensively and enthusiastically. During 3 days, at Baltan Lab in Eindhoven,...
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Carnevale. Because pigs deserve piñatas and fruit machines too
Have you ever wondered how fun-loving pigs can be? Pigs are, after all, “cognitively complex”. They learn fast, have a sense of time, exhibit empathy, cooperate with members of their social...
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The God Trick. An exhibition explores the possibility of a more bio-centric...
The PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin’s experimental centre for Living Arts, is celebrating its ten years anniversary this Summer with The God-Trick, a group exhibition that aims to offer new perspectives...
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Treebour. Do we pay trees fairly for the immaterial labour they perform for us?
Very few of us think of trees in terms of how hardworking they are. And yet, they work 24/7 and most of their labour is to our benefit. Trees (and any plant for that matter) perform all kinds of...
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Sonic Agency. Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance
Sonic Agency. Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance, by Brandon LaBelle. Available on amazon USA and UK. Publisher MIT Press writes: In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances...
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Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas
Phantom islands belong to history and myths at the same time. For centuries sometimes, geographers believed in the existence of a number of bogus small pieces of land in the middle of the ocean. They...
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Faceless. Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies
Faceless. Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, edited by artist and researcher Bogomir Doringer in collaboration with curator and cultural studies scholar Brigitte Felderer. On...
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Arriba! A tropical time capsule in Antarctica
Paul Rosero Contreras, Arriba!, 2017 (détail). Photo by PRC and Narodzkiy Last year, during the Antarctic Biennale, Paul Rosero Contreras installed a kind of tropical time capsule right in the...
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On thrombolites and other victims of human folly
After Monday’s look at Arriba! A tropical time capsule in Antarctica, here’s another artwork i discovered at the exhibition No Man’s Land in MUDAM, Luxembourg. Art Orienté Objet, Pieta Australiana,...
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Crises of labour, language and behaviour. An interview with Jeremy Hutchison
I discovered Jeremy Hutchison’s work in 2011 when he was exhibiting a series of laughable objects he had commissioned to manufacturers around the world. Not only did he ask them to fabricate items that...
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No Man’s Land. Natural Spaces, Testing Grounds
Final notes from my visit of the exhibition No Man’s Land. Natural Spaces, Testing Grounds at MUDAM in Luxembourg: Martha Atienza, Our Islands 11°16’58.4_N 123°45’07.0_E, 2017 Martha Atienza, Our...
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The epic task of breeding fruit flies for life on Titan
In 2011, artist Andy Gracie set himself the task of using patient breeding and artificial selection to develop a new species of fruit flies that would be able to live on Titan, the largest moon of...
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Genesis. Hacking extremophiles
Extremophiles are organisms that can withstand such unforgiving conditions that they’ve survived every mass extinction on earth and are expected to be the first sort of extraterrestrial life space...
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Global control, macho technology and the Krampus. Notes from the RIXC Open...
The RIXC Open Fields conference took place a couple of weeks ago in Riga, Latvia. Like each year, the event spurred conversations addressing the current and upcoming challenges of a society that is...
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Halletmek. The Turkish art of speeding up design processes
“Halletmek” is a popular Turkish catchphrase that refers to the art of solving, adjusting, fixing a problem. Designer Nur Horsanali noticed that the practice of halletmek is everywhere in the streets...
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Global Control And Censorship. A quick tour of the RIXC festival exhibition
After last week’s Notes from the RIXC Open Fields conference, it’s time to have a quick look at the accompanying exhibition of this year’s edition of the RIXC Art Science Festival. The theme of the...
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Genetically Modified Generation (Designer Babies)
New scientific techniques, such as CRISPR-Cas9 have raised debates about whether or not we will soon be able to get babies à la carte and whether this will be ethically acceptable. If making designer...
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High Static, Dead Lines. A book about the spooky resonances of communication...
High Static, Dead Lines. Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter, by Kristen Gallerneaux, an artist, sonic researcher and a curator at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn in the United States....
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Staying Alive. A “wunderkammer” of disaster solutions
The third project i discovered at A School of School, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (after Halletmek. The Turkish art of speeding up design processes and Genetically Modified Generation) is not a...
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