Exhibition: ‘And Say the Animal Responded?’ at FACT Liverpool
After the pandemic standstill, FACT Liverpool have been able to jumpstart their physical exhibition programme with a show aiming once more to make us reflect…
Insight: on Pei-Ying Lin’s “Virophilia”
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a radical global shift in the ways in which humans articulate their relationship with viruses. While the impact of…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and the Utopian Body’ by Eleanor Wakeford
Defying fantasies of control, corroding internal integrity, and ignoring the borders that define and defend identity, contagion is considered a threat to individual, national and…
In conversation: Vanessa Lorenzo and Debbie Ding, examining new forms of art and speculative design
The realm of contemporary art is vigorously growing and morphing. While all definitions of practices and institutional frameworks have shifted and blurred, contemporary art is…
Exhibition: ‘The Flavor Genome’ by Anicka Yi at Espace Louis Vuitton München
Espace Louis Vuitton is an exhibition place encouraging creation of new contemporary artworks in Tokyo, München, Venezia, Beijing and Seoul. Inaugurated in 2014 the Espace…
STEVE BISHOP, orchestrating the notions of everyday life
I came across Steve Bishop for the first time last year, when I visited his installation Deliquescing at KW Berlin which got under my skin…
Online events: Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation synthesises three years of intersectional research, investigating the transformations of the world’s oceans in the Anthropocene. Assessing the latest scientific…
Insight: Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Sebastian Diecke’s ‘Bricolage’
Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, and Sebastian Diecke form the transdisciplinary collaborative team behind the work Bricolage. Bricolage debuted the 6th February 2020 at the Fremantle…
‘A Sculpture for the Age of Corona Virus: Dancing on the Line Between Art and Scientific Discovery’ by Mara G. Haseltine
In 2006 I installed one of my largest sculptures to date, 12 meters in diameter, SARS Inhibited. The Sculpture is situated in a reflecting pool…
Film Screening: ‘Sea Lovers’, a commission by TBA21-Academy
What if to save our seas and oceans we should have a deeply intimate relationship with it, and understand its most delicate interconnections from within,…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, News
Live streaming: ‘Humane Methods’ by Marco Donnarumma & Margherita Pevere
Performative and media artist director and composer Marco Donnarumma has been since the early 2000s exploring contemporary performance, new media art, and computer music. In…
Virtual Talk: LABS, Future Interiors by Studio Samira Boon
Studio Samira Boon, in collaboration with Waag and the VU Amsterdam, is working on Living Aero Bacterial Systems (LABS), a project that focuses on a new material…
‘Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future Of Fungi’ by Piotr Bockowski
The exhibition Mushrooms: The Art, Design And Future Of Fungi invites us to ever-mutating life of symbiotic hybrids and shows that co-existence of diverse bodies…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Insight: ‘Atensión!’ by Barena Bianca, a look into Venice lagoon’s delicate ecosystem
Venice-based artists’ collective Barena Bianca brings to the Imperial College CLCC Foyer Gallery Atensión!, an installation that catalyses the power of language to respond to…
Biomedia, Digital Culture, News
Exhibition: ‘Cambio’ by Formafantasma at the Serpentine Galleries
Formafantasma returns to the Serpentine Galleries in London with their upcoming exhibition Cambio. Cambio is the third exhibition of design in the Serpentine’s history, following…
Exhibition: ‘Acoustic Ocean’ by Ursula Biemann at Swiss Cultural Centre Paris
The Swiss Cultural Center in Paris is presenting Acoustic Ocean, by Ursula Biemann, an expedition to Antarctica’s oceans depth in the quest for interspecies communication…
Exhibition: ‘And Say the Animal Responded?’ at FACT Liverpool
What would animals say to us if we listened to them? What might we learn about the state of our shared planet? On 19 March,…
MARGHERITA PEVERE, the leaky character of the performative biomatter
Art practices that employ biological cells, tissues and organisms, habitually called “bioart”, are artistically most significant not because of their “usage” of this kinds of…
Flashow: ‘Raw/ à vif’ by Noémie Soula at Giudecca Art District Venice
Growing advancements in biotechnologies like gene editing and tissue engineering are transforming the face of medicine, while also challenging our current bioethical and legal landscapes….