When in Fukushima, do as the surfers do
In 2025, I went to Fukushima to participate in the 4th edition of “Let’s Ride the Waves on March 11th”. This year, local surfer host Yuko Takahashi shares her backstory and thoughts on this ritual event.
Interview
New Gleaning: Encounter on art and paludiculture with Daniel Hengst
Encounter with intermedia artist Daniel Hengst who presented 'New Gleaning', at the “Swamp Things! The Liveliness of Peatland Plants” exhibition of the _matter festival 2025 in Berlin.
Interaction, improvisation and transdisciplinarity: interview with Simon Berz at Home Made 2025
Simon Berz, famous drummer and multidisciplanary artist, runs its own art center Combination Space. We met him at Home Made 2025, the summercamp of SGMK (Swiss Mechatronic Arts Society), where Makery and PING (Nantes) set a pop-up radio studio. Interview.
Legal battle against political abuse of art: interview with Maja Smrekar
Maja Smrekar reflects on how her work was misused in a far-right political campaign and the need to build collective resilience. These issues will be addressed on 11 September in Ljubljana at the Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT).
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.
The Nutmeg’s Curse, biopolitical wars, terraformation and extermination. Interview with Amitav Ghosh
From book to book, Amitav Ghosh encourages us to think about global crises through the prism of colonialism. We talk to him about his latest work, The Nutmeg's Curse.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence (TTT): “Rethinking the Wolf” in Malta
Spotlighting its legendary themes of Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science, TTT founder and director Dalila Honorato spoke with Makery before the opening of TTT 2023 (September 27-29) in Valetta, Greece.
Electronic Textile Camp: Fiber nerds, wool punks and DIY electronics unite at the Vicksburg Mill in Michigan
This year from September 15 to 24, Electronic Textile Camp returns to Vicksburg, Michigan, USA. Artist and co-organizer Lara Grant spoke with Makery about eTextiles camps and projects past and present.
Summer school at Cultivamos Cultura: Taking time to inhabit Portugal’s wild Alentejo
This year marked Cultivamos Cultura’s 11th Summer School program based in the village of São Luís, just north of Portugal’s vast coastal Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park.
Cyberwitch: technological emancipation, relationships with the living and spirituality
Interview with Lucile Olympe Haute, an artist, activist, teacher, researcher, cyberwitch, coder and specialist of web-to-print.
The sustainability turn of the Fab Lab Network, Anastasia Pistofidou reflects on the biomaterials community within the Fablab movement (2/2)
On June 6-11, Fabricademy Bootcamp was held at the fablab Onl'Fait in Geneva. Anastasia Pistofidou reflects on the biomaterials community within the Fablab movement.
Anastasia Pistofidou, co-founder of Fabricademy: “If technology is ubiquitous, then craftsmanship is an emergency” (1/2)
On June 6-11, Fabricademy Bootcamp was held at the fablab Onl'fait in Geneva. Interview with its co-founder, Anastasia Pistofidou.
MakersXchange: Waag, an interview with Miha Turšič
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Miha Turšič from Waag.
MakersXchange: Buinho, an interview with Carlos Alcobia
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Carlos Alcobia from Buinho.
Emilia Tikka: Transformation with the ‘more than human’ in the Arctic
In the framework of the ART4MED program, designer and film maker Emilia Tikka collaborates with artist and reindeer herder Leena and Oula Valkeapää to question biomedical enhancement and posthuman survival. Correspondence.