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.
Rewilding Cultures with Andrew Gryf Paterson: leaving comfort zones and academically clean spaces (1/2)
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 1.
The Anthropocene Bomb
For 15 years, a workgroup of the International Union of Geological Sciences has tried to establish scientific foundations of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch. An inside vote in last March has suddenly undermined its all work and conclusions, and raised a debate among scientists. What interests and ideologies are at stake? Makery maps the controversy.
(Français) NØ School : Apprendre à s’émanciper du capitalisme
Depuis 2019, les artistes Benjamin Gaulon et Dasha Ilina tiennent chaque année à Nevers, en Bourgogne, la NØ School, une école alternative pour imaginer un modèle hors du capitalisme et de la pensée extractiviste. Les deux fondateurs nous expliquent leur vision.
Mobility Conversation, season 2: new grants to explore our cultural and artistic exchanges
Season 2 for the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant! After a year 2023 rich in propositions, the European collaborative project is launching a new call for applications. Deadline March 30.
Walking the questions: A slow journey in a three-piece business suit
For six weeks, Monique Besten, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, "walked the questions" to live them better. Here's her story.
A residency to research Grätzel cells at Hackteria, encounter with Shih Wei Chieh (2/2)
Taiwanese artist and designer Shih Wei Chieh was in residence this fall at Hackteria in Zürich. Makery wanted to know more about his background and new projects. Second part of the interview.
From e-textile to Grätzel cells, encounter with the taiwanese designer Shih Wei Chieh (1/2)
Taiwanese artist and design researcher Shih Wei Chieh was in residence this fall at Hackteria in Zürich. Makery wanted to know more about his background and new projects. First part of the interview.
Waag Space Lab in Amsterdam: Planetary Public Stack Research Residencies
Three Planetary Public Stack workshops organised by Waag took place at Old Observatory Leiden from April to May, engaging with around 30 artists and researchers.
Field Notes: Recalibrating perspectives and observing the environment in Lapland
This year, 23 participants immersed themselves in nature during an art residency at the Kilpisjärvi biological station around the theme of "The North Escaping".
Radical re-imagining: why we need planetary imagination
What do we mean when we talk about images of the planet, why are they so important and how does this relate to the climate and ecological crisis? Bonnie van Vugt explains in this essay on planetary imaginaries.
A new version of our map of labs
New version of the Makery labs map: update your information to provide a beautiful and efficient tool for makers all over the world!
Mobility in Motherhood : a personal experience
Shona Robin MacPherson is an artist, curator and researcher based in Glasgow and the laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant. She talks about the challenges of her mobility in motherhood.
Alizée Armet and the Ghostly Plants of Damaged Worlds
Alizée Armet will present her creation "Ghostly plants of damaged worlds" in the "I Told You It's Alive" exhibition at Kersnikova (Ljubljana) from November 28. Makery wanted to know more.