PIFcamp : drawing report from the favorite Slovenian Summer Camp
It's the beginning of August. All Europe is taken by vacation. All? No! The small village of Soča, in Slovenia, is taken by hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers.
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Makery introduces its 2023 Rewilding Cultures mobility grant laureate
In April, Makery and its Rewilding Cultures’ partners opened a conversation to rethink mobility and cultural exchange and to offer grants. 3 months later, Makery found its laureate!
Photo report: Electric Wonderland, building a geodesic dome in the Croatian mountains
At the fifth Electric Wonderland Summer Camp in the Croatian mountains, participants were invited to build a geodesic dome. Photo report.
The Aerocene community gathers at Hangar Y and reclaims the air
On Friday 14 July, the Hangar Y in Meudon near Paris opened its doors and its skies to the public in order to host Aerocene for a unique collaborative and artistic experience.
Mycopoetics: embodying regeneration and ways to “compost the toxins of the Anthropocene”
For five days in June, artists, theorists, scientists, performers and researchers gathered in Berlin for(Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures on the theme of Mycopoetics.
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.
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.