Artlabo Retreat: a week of creating in and with nature
In early June, Ultra and Makery co-hosted Artlabo Retreat on the island of Batz in Britanny, France. One week of creating together, with the island at the heart of the activities.
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Towards a symbiotic future: An intervention, Arts as Catalyst
For Kochi's Soil Assembly artist Vivek Vilasini looked back at his permaculture intervention in Western Ghats of Kerala (India).
More-Than-Planet symposium at ISEA 2023: On the Same Planet
The "Ocean-Space-Ocean" symposium at ISEA 2023 brought together artists and researchers to question the role of the oceans in planetary balances and the perspectives offered by marine biodiversity in the ecological transition.
Exploring science and intimacy through artificial reproduction in Greece
For ten days from May 5-14, 2023, ten artists came together for the inaugural TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp in Corfu, Greece to explore assisted reproductive technologies (ART).
Fabrikarium Tokyo: prostheses and processes in the land of shower toilets
My Human Kit’s inclusive makeathon to make practical solutions to everyday problems of physically disabled individuals was held for the first time in Japan on May 4-6, 2023.
Fungi Cosmology, chapter 1: The Amazon experience, an imagination space of the unknown
An art and science research project on fungi held in Brazil in March 2023 hosted by Pro Helvetia South America. A short insight from an internal perspective.
The 2023 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Where to go this summer? Makery has made a selection of summer camps and universities in Europe 2023 edition.
Soil Assembly at Kochi Biennale: food transportation, climate change and ocean trades (2/2)
How the questions of soil and sail interweave in a desirable future for food transportation? Tim Boykett from Time's Up extends his presentation at The Soil Assembly in this essay (part two).
Rewilding Cultures opens a conversation and grants applications on mobility
Rewilding Cultures aims to initiate a conversation and offers grants to rethink mobility and cultural exchange in novel ways. Applications are open util May 19th.
Soil Assembly at Kochi Biennale: food transportation, climate change and ocean trades (1/2)
How the questions of soil and sail interweave in a desirable future for food transportation? Tim Boykett from Time's Up extends his presentation at The Soil Assembly in this essay (part one).
Aerocene: Bring The Sun Down
On April 6, the Aerocene community attempted a world record for a solar balloon flight, near Maintenon, France.
(Français) Invitation : venez faire voler un ballon de 7000m3 par la force du soleil et du vent
Mercredi 5 avril, la communauté d’artistes Aerocene lancera dans les airs un ballon aérosolaire de 7000m3 à Maintenon, près de Paris. Un décollage garanti sans énergie fossile auquel tout le monde est convié.
Growing microbes, planting forests and other fungal fantasies
Focus on Malte Larsen's (microBIOMIK Society) work around community building, mushroom cultivation, urban forests and soil regeneration.
Art and medicine: early warning systems and collaborative world makings
For Adam Bencard, the collaboration between art and medicine highlights the socio-cultural mechanisms of care, and initiates practices of doing-together that decompartmentalize practices.
Highlights from Kochi Biennale: Soil, Sustainability, and Community at The Soil Assembly
"The Soil Assembly" at the Kochi Biennale (India)is about the (bio)diversity and the interconnectedness of all living beings. Makery was there.
An artistic residency in a scientific laboratory in Lapland: call for applications for Field_Notes
Since 2011, the Bioart Society has been organizing an artistic residency in a scientific laboratory in Lapland. The next edition will take place from September
Synthetic Becoming: Life in the Molecular Commons
The essay Synthetic Becoming explores the new molecular commons, in which myriad vectors connect our bodies with human industry, the consumer habits of other people and the material state of our lived environment.
More-Than-Planet: Finding new planetary imaginaries and actions
The exhibition More-than-Planet (July-December 2022) presented five international artists working on critical narratives to reduce the global environmental crisis.
Bioart and reproductive technologies: two calls for applications open until February 28
TTTlabs is offering two calls for for applications for its residency and Summer Camp, on the theme of bioart and reproductive technologies. Applications are open until February 28.
Paleo-aero: an alternative low-carbon history of aerospace and aeronautics
The book "Space Without Rockets" adresses the ways in which we could travel away to space, sustainably. Makery publishes three of the texts from this essential reading. Second text by Atelier 21.