ArtLabo Retreat, from Blue to Green
ArtLabo Retreat 2025 was a two week-long camp in West Brittany, France. Chrysa Chouliara, the 2025 Makery summer chronicler-in-residency, reveals her chronicle of the two weeks spent at the ArtLabo Retreat.
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ArtLabo Retreat: A Journey to the End of the World
From the 30th of June until the 6th of July 2025, ArtLabo Retreat took place on Île de Batz, Finistère, France, to explore the unique landscapes and possible materialities of coastal ecosystems.
Pedro Soler: “During the Soil Assembly, we explored how the natural world has an agency of itself.”
Interview with Pedro Soler, main curator of the Soil Assembly #2, which took place in La Chimba, Ecuador in may.
Embodied Defiance: Exploring Indigenous Dances as practices of Anti-Colonial and Ecological Reclamation
In the framework of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation, dancer Ghazal Ramzani travelled trough Europe to meet dancers, choregraphers, artists and philosophers involved in anti-colonial and ecological practices. Here is her report.
Frame Story: A Long-term Research in Bicycle Design
Frame Story is Atar Brosh's long term design project, which combines traditional hands-on craftsmanship with contemporary digital manufacturing technologies. 21 bicycles frames have been produced until now.
The Benjamin Netanyahu Research Laboratory: A Political Design Experiment in 3D
Atar Brosh's Benjamin Netanyahu Research Laboratory is a project of critical design, that explores the relationship between politics, design and technology within Israel's complex socio-political landscape.
Rewilding Cultures conversations: Observations on Permafrost
In the framework of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation, artist Jean Danton Laffert went to Greenland to develop his project "Observations on Permafrost". Report in photos.
Earth-Space and Place: Reimagining Law and Place in the Earth-Space Complex Systems
In her book, Elena Cirkovic proposes an exploration of the law-making paradigm for complex interactions between the Earth system and outer space in the Anthropocene era. Here are exclusive reading notes.
The Politics of Symbiosis
We discuss here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.
Roscoffensis I/O: on exploring our becoming Homo Photosyntheticus. Artistic research in the footsteps of the Roscoff worm and Lynn Margulis
Roscoffensis I/O by Miha Godec and Roscosmoe Lab was showcased at OSMO/ZA during the Expedition to Public Outer Space in Slovenia, 27-30 Nov 2024. The project combines photosymbiosis and artificial intelligence to care for S. roscoffensis worms.
Feral Living through Poetic Immersion in the Satoyama
Here, Leila Chakroun shares her experiences of a stay in a japanese satoyama, and her thoughts on an agro-ecological future inspired by it.
Building the archipelagos of the future at Island School of Social Autonomy
Report by Klara Debeljak on a collective action of Island School of Social Autonomy on the Island of Vis (Croatia) to build new ways of living together.
A fairy tale or a true possibility: traveling long distances by land and sea as a substitution for flying
Artist Johanna Sulalampi surface travelled from Finland to Cologne on a two-night trip. A realistic alternative to flying? In this text, she explores the opportunities of sustainable travel.
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.
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.
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.
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.