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Open source estrogens and other hormonal tales
Artefacts from the University of Dundee’s Collections Egstrogen Farms, 2015 The term ‘hormonal’ is sometimes used as an insult. It is always (ALWAYS!) hurled at women to criticize any behaviour deemed...
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Performance-driven Fabrication
Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe, Fabricating Performance Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe, Fabricating Performance Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe from the Interactive Architecture Lab have designed a...
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Brown Sound Kit. ‘Toilet humour for gallery space’
Because we could all do with a bit of humour today, even if it’s of the Benny Hill kind… Martin Kersels, Brown Sound Kit, 1994. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session)
Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, Project 12:31 Semen, cell cultures, urine, feaces, tears, blood, hair, skin– the human body has been used not merely as the subject of art works, but also as their...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 2. At the morgue)
Previously: Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session). Part two of the notes i took during Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art. Materials / Aesthetics / Ethics, a symposium...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 3: On expendable body parts)
Previously: Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 1. The blood session). Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 2. At the morgue). Part three of the notes i took during Bodily Matters:...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 4. On skin and hair)
Previous episodes of Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art: Part 1. The blood session; Part 2. At the morgue and Part 3: On expendable body parts. ::vtol::, reading my body Bharti Parmar, Shag...
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Book review – Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design
Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design, by editor Brian Ashcraft and tattoo artist Hori Benny. On amazon USA and UK. Tuttle Publishing writes: Japanese Tattoos is an insider’s look at the world...
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Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 5. Working with HeLa cells,...
Previous episodes of Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art: Part 1. The blood session; Part 2. At the morgue; Part 3: On expendable body parts and Part 4. On skin and hair. Part five (and i can’t...
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Infinite Ear. On the practices of un- or para-hearing
As hinted on Tuesday, i’m just back from the opening of Bergen Assembly, a triennial that boldly attempts to challenge and reformulate the good old biennial (or triennial) model. The event is...
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Within: Instruments that challenge the way we understand hearing
Tarek Atoui / WITHIN II. Performance, Bergen Assembly 2016. Sentralbadet, Bergen. Photo: Thor Brødreskift Tarek Atoui/ Sonic Therapy Sessions, Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and...
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Open Fields. Big and small data reinvented by flies, weeds and kisses
Līvija Daudze in collaboration with Valters Grišāns, Handmade, 2016. OPEN FIELDS, RIXC Art Science Festival 2016, opening at the National Library of Latvia. Photo: Kristīne Madjare for Rixc RIXC Art...
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To Flavour Our Tears – A restaurant where insects can feast on us
Image Center for Genomic Gastronomy A few years ago, entomologist discovered that some moths and bees suck the tears from underneath the eyelids of birds and mammals (including humans) while they...
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Air Slaves. Could we one day ‘lend our lungs’ to filter polluted air?
“Prepare for a future in which the only way of making a living is to ‘lend your lung’ to filter heavily polluted air. Clean Air International Inc. is looking for suppliers for its first Organic Clean...
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What if you could listen in on the chemical communication within your body?
Mike Thompson, Susana Cámara Leret and Dave Young, The Rhythm of Life, 2017. Exhibition view at STRP Biënnale 2017 in Eindhoven. Photo: Hanneke Wetzer for STRP We all glow. All living cells of...
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8 things i’ve learnt during the last edition of the STRP biennale
Conference for the Curious. Photo © Blickfänger Steve Maher, Heavy Metal Detector. Photo: © Boudewijn Bollmann Outside the historic Philips Klokgebouw where the biennale unfolds A few weeks ago, i...
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Trust Me I’m an Artist. Ethics surrounding art & science collaborations (part...
Kira O’Reilly and Jennifer Willet, Be-wildering performance. Photo: Bas de Brouwer Trust Me, Im an Artist. Opening of the exhibition at Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam. Photos by Bas de Brouwer...
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MOMENTUM9 –“Alienation is our contemporary condition”
MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter Group, Honeybee hives monitoring in the Synthetic Apiary Environment. Image: Markus Kayser, Sunanda Sharma and Jorge Duro Jenna Sutela, Let’s Play: Life, 2015-2017....
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Work it, Feel it! New mechanisms of body discipline
Toni Schmale, hafenperle II, from the series: fuhrpark. was das/der neue gefährt sein kann, 2013. Installation view: Work it, feel it!, Kunsthalle Wien 2017, Photo: Jorit Aust Juliette Goiffon and...
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Finding ‘skinship’ with trees
Mari Keski-Korsu, Beat to the Balance. Photography: Ross Fraser McLean / StudioRoRo for Edge Effects, Scottish Sculpture Workshop Mari Keski-Korsu‘s work investigates how ecological and...
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