Ljubljana: a Soil Assembly at Festivities Under Siege
From 20-22 May, Soil Assembly joined artists, activists and cultural practitioners for Festivities Under Siege at Krater, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
In Ukraine, the Ecostations Network is searching for solutions for restoring war-damaged soils
In May the Ukrainian Ecostations Network, hosted a Soil Assembly on restoring soils damaged by military operations.
What making tools taught me about making cultures
This essay by Irene Posch, from the third Feral Labs Node Book, reflects on the role of tools in shaping collaboration, inquiry, and knowledge production in e-textiles.
Wet witches and rewilded biotech: bastard protocols for how to grow a homunculus (badly)
This chapter from the third Feral Labs Node Book, titled “Fa Fa Futures", by WhiteFeather Hunter discusses the feral turn through a feminist technoscientific methodology.
Cultivamos Cultura: feral conditions and rural futures
This essay reflects on the ongoing practices of Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal, as a cultural institution fostering creativity, experimentation, and knowledge circulation.
Manualism: knowledge through touch
Martyna Groth examines László Moholy-Nagy’s futurist tactility and Bauhaus methods, and connects these ideas to contemporary interests in touch, DIY culture and makerspaces.
The 2026 Makery map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Makery is compiling a list of camps as natural as DiY, aimed at makers, hackers, bioartists, architects and other curious people. Follow the guide !
Art Meets Radical Openess festival: From the ashes of the burnout machines
The Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) festival will take place in Linz from May 13 to 16, 2026. Read the curatorial essay for the event's exhibition.
Epistemic sludge: the ontology of the post-institutional lab
As the first public “Arai-Eek Co-Laboratory” sessions start next weekend in Chiang Mai, Thailand, curator and researcher Nupur Maneesh Doshi looks back on the program’s inaugural street workshop there last February.
metaPhorest spotlights underwater chimeric bioflora in urban Tokyo
This winter, metaPhorest magnified underwater microscopic communities thriving in one of Tokyo’s most urban waterways. Hideo Iwasaki talks about their site-specific exhibition “Silent Neighbors” on the Shibuya River.
Liberatory laboratories: a feral future for art-science collaborations
In this essay Chessa Adsit-Morris takes a look back at the "laboratory turn" in art and culture since the 1960s, ultimately offering a reflection on the Feral Labs network itself.
Soil Assembly at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Situated, For the Time Being
Artist and curator Neal White explores the latest iteration of the Soil Assembly held from 20-25 January at the 6th Edition of the Biennale – titled, ‘For the Time Being’.
When in Fukushima, do as the surfers do
In 2025, I went to Fukushima to participate in the 4th edition of “Let’s Ride the Waves on March 11th”. This year, local surfer host Yuko Takahashi shares her backstory and thoughts on this ritual event.
Crips, cryptids and imagining other beings
Lyndsey Walsh here takes on a personal approach to embodying ferality through the lens of art practice that engages with their lived reality and queer crip positionality.
Immersion with Toxics Link in New Delhi: meeting the Kabadiwalas and other upcyclers of e-waste
How female labor in New Delhi's slums contributes to urban mining of e-waste by manually upcycling precious materials.
Lines to Follow—Soils to Gather: A living artwork ferments its way across the seas
An international collective artwork concluding the Soil Assembly #3 at Kochi–Muziris Biennale 2025 follows ancient spice routes from India to Europe.
Making Narratives: Stories about creating, empowerment, and agency through time
Makery gives the floor to Karla Spiluttini, from Schmiede Hallein in Austria, for an overview of maker culture, an essay published in Feral Labs Node Book #2.
Feral by occupation
We are launching a series of essays drawn from the 2024 Feral Labs Node Book #2 and the upcoming #3 issue. Here is an essay by Kate Rich, founder of the legendary Feral Trade project and facilitator of the Feral MBA in Australia.
Spielplatz Endzeit: Digital rites in alpine borderlands
The Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation aims at initiating conversations on cultural exchange and offers grants for mobility. Supported by Projekt Atol, Toma Pilein, reflects on his experience with the "Spielplatz Endzeit" project.
New Gleaning: Encounter on art and paludiculture with Daniel Hengst
Encounter with intermedia artist Daniel Hengst who presented 'New Gleaning', at the “Swamp Things! The Liveliness of Peatland Plants” exhibition of the _matter festival 2025 in Berlin.