Humuspunk: How Does Soil Prototype?
Imagining the future means anchoring practices and aesthetics in the movement and phenomena observable in the soil. The life that animates humus shows the matrix of all creativity.
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Planetary Peasants, Werkleitz festival celebrates the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War
This text is an introduction to the exhibition Planetary Peasants at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, about the evolution of peasantry in Germany from Thomas Müntzer's Peasants War (15th century) to our times.
Eating the sun: the Disnovation collective explores the Solar Share at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria
The collective Disnovation.org is presenting its new project The Solar Share from 4 to 8 September at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.
Sharing open-source knowledge: from Do-It-Yourself electronics to artist-run associations
Belarusian artist Maryia Kamarova was the 2024 winner of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant. She recounts her summer on the move for Makery.
Fungal cosmology investigations in Patagonia: “art-science research is an invention of modernity”
The Fungi Cosmology project is meeting this September in Switzerland for the latest chapter in their fungal investigations. Impressions from chapter 2 in Patagonia by artist Maya Minder.
A telltale of Sarjapura Curries and associated art space SARLA in Bangalore
Over the past 10 years, artist Suresh Kumar G has set up a community village in Bangalore, India, where agro-ecology and artistic activities are practiced.
Electric Wonderland: The chilly willy of maker camps, run by wizards
From july 21 to 28, the 6th edition of Electric Wonderland in Baške Oštarije, Croatia. gathered makers, tinkerers and artists. Makery was there sketching their secrets.
The Nutmeg’s Curse, biopolitical wars, terraformation and extermination. Interview with Amitav Ghosh
From book to book, Amitav Ghosh encourages us to think about global crises through the prism of colonialism. We talk to him about his latest work, The Nutmeg's Curse.
Hackers & Designers: a summer camp challenging power through collective making and being
For ten days in July, Hackers & Designers held the 2024 edition of their summer camp with a program full of workshops, interventions, communal activities, radio sessions, and collective experiments centered on the topic of “Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy”.
Helping migrant people to settle into agriculture and crafts in France
The Association A4 helps migrant people to settle projects in agriculture and crafts. Presentation.
Kerminy, a Space for Agriculture in Arts: Weathered Esthetics
We're experimenting with artistic and agricultural practices at Kerminy. Sonifying natural elements, caring for living things, self-building - we're working towards a concrete utopia.
At the Village of Water, care culture and a communal fight for sustainable uprisings
On July 16-21, over 120 organizations gathered at a temporary camp in the city of Melle in southwestern France.
Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole
From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Roger Pibernat, Makery's resident columnist for the Feral Labs Network, was there.
Michèle Boulogne : “hands tend to think faster than head!”
Based between Martinique and Rotterdam, Michèle Boulogne is an artist and textile designer questioning the cultural and social context of imaginary space exploration. Makery met her.
Plantation Planet
We are living in the Plantationocene, the agro-political order born of decades of post-colonial history. What does this mean, and what are the ways for abandoning this deadly system?
Land and Liberation: Congolese Plantation Workers’ Art Circle (CATPC)
CATPC members have just been awarded the Grand Prize at S+T+ARTS Africa 2024. Éléonore Hellio, special art consultant for CATPC since 2014, looks back on this inspiring Congolese intiative.
David Legrand’s Transmutatiographe: Transdisciplinary poetics of space
David Legrand's Transmutatiographe proposes a collaborative experience within multiple universes. The exhibition runs until June 30, 2024 at La Chaufferie, HEAR, Strasbourg, France.
The 2024 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Makery brings you its selection of summer camps, for a DiY season in the great outdoors. A tour of Europe from Slovenia to Portugal, via Armenia, the UK and France!
The Laboratory Planet: Laboratories for habitable futures
Makery et ART2M publient La Planète Laboratoire N°6, "Paysans Planétaires", dans le cadre du programme More-Than-Planet. Nous republions ici l'éditorial.
Rewilding Cultures with Andrew Gryf Paterson: how to live in symbiocenic harmony with our changing environments (2/2)
Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, Andrew Gryf Paterson was able to embark on a slow travel from Finland to Serbia and Montenegro, to investigate what it means to be a climate migrant. Part 2.