Underground subsistence: Feeding beings in the Andes of Ecuador
In Ecuador, in the face of violent land grabbing practices, the Andean population is resisting by safeguarding ancestral practices for their food survival.
Tinku Uku Pacha in Ecuador: towards a second Soil Assembly in 2025
Tinku Uku Pacha, the next international meeting dedicated to art, soil and indigenous knowledge, will be in Ecuador's upper La Chimba valley, at the foot of the magnificent Cayambe volcano.
Human-flamingos, queer pokemons and other unique creatures at the BioFeral camp in Crete
The latest camp in the BioFeral.BeachCamp series of Ionian University's Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence program was held in Crete at the end of September. Lynn Hagan immerses us in the queer world of the organizers and participants of this decidedly feral lab.
Soil, Plants and Thunderstorms
This spring, Makery co-produced issue 6 of the occasional newspaper The Laboratory Planet. Julian Chollet discusses here how climate, clouds and ecosystems are closely linked.
Composing in Lapland, where the landscape becomes a verb
In July 2024, Johanna Ruotsalainen went to Sápmi for an art residency. With the support of Projekt Atol and its Mobility grant, she travelled through Finland, Sweden and Norway, encountering the landscape and its musicality.
Feral Circuits: Rewilding electro-cultures at HomeMade 2024
Reflections on a journey to the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society’s Homemade summer camp from July 27 to August 4, 2024 by Miranda Moss, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant.
“It takes the whole region to make the city”: territories, ecosystems and populations by Patrick Geddes
“Learn by doing”, "Think local, act global": P. Geddes (1854-1932), biologist, sociologist and urban planner, thought up the relationship between town and country and reinvented city planning.
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.
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.