Cultivamos Cultura: feral conditions and rural futures
This essay reflects on the ongoing practices of Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal, as a cultural institution fostering creativity, experimentation, and knowledge circulation.
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Liberatory laboratories: a feral future for art-science collaborations
In this essay Chessa Adsit-Morris takes a look back at the "laboratory turn" in art and culture since the 1960s, ultimately offering a reflection on the Feral Labs network itself.
Soil Assembly at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Situated, For the Time Being
Artist and curator Neal White explores the latest iteration of the Soil Assembly held from 20-25 January at the 6th Edition of the Biennale – titled, ‘For the Time Being’.
Crips, cryptids and imagining other beings
Lyndsey Walsh here takes on a personal approach to embodying ferality through the lens of art practice that engages with their lived reality and queer crip positionality.
Immersion with Toxics Link in New Delhi: meeting the Kabadiwalas and other upcyclers of e-waste
How female labor in New Delhi's slums contributes to urban mining of e-waste by manually upcycling precious materials.
Lines to Follow—Soils to Gather: A living artwork ferments its way across the seas
An international collective artwork concluding the Soil Assembly #3 at Kochi–Muziris Biennale 2025 follows ancient spice routes from India to Europe.
Taboo, transgression, transcendence and other provocative stories
The Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence (TTT) in Art & Science international conference was holding its 6th edition at Kino Šiška in Ljubljana on September 9-13. Report by Chrysa Chouliara.
Switzerland: Oscillations from the HomeMade super camp
HomeMade is an annual mechatronic research retreat. From 1st to 10th of August, the camp brought together 109 participants. Chrysa Chouliara, shares her impressions of this unique edition.
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.
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.