by Maxence Grugier
Schmiede 2022: Enter the labyrinth of ideas
For the past 20 years, the Smiths of Schmiede have been gathering in the Old Saline of Hallein in Austria. Ten days of wild collaboration that culminate in an extravagant group exhibition.
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.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (2/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (1/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
Constructing convivial alternative habitats at Bellastock
An ephemeral city under construction, wild tech village, urban fiction, Bellastock is human-scale architecture laboratory that has opened up to experimentation, education and mediation.
Critical Makers at Nø School Nevers 2022
Detour to Nø School in Nevers, France, where every summer for the past four years, participants from around the world gather for workshops, talks, performances and concerts.
Infiltration Process: eco-friendly, open source civil engineering in Lyon
Infiltration Process summer camp invited international post-graduate students in rainwater management, urban hydrology and eco-engineering to the open-air lab “Eco-Campus” at the University of Lyon in France.
Kongo Astronauts: “the astronaut feels like a foreigner on his own planet, exiled by fate”
Kongo Astronauts was founded in Kinshasa in 2013 by Eléonore Hellio and Michel Ekeba. Their transmedia art practice includes performance, video and networked art.
“Virus Becoming”: Shu Lea Cheang on Viral Love Biohack
Makery met with Shu Lea Cheang, on the occasion of the presentation of "Virus Becoming", an exhibition that was held at the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts in Nice this May.
NØ SCHOOL NEVERS, Covid edition: “meeting and exchanging in real space”
Initiated by artists Benjamin Gaulon and Dasha Ilina, Nø School is a conceptually alternative anti-school spanning two weeks of talks, workshops and other activities in Nevers, France.
Post Growth: The Biosphere’s Work and The Solar Salary (2/2)
Since 2018, DISNOVATION.ORG’s Post Growth project puts into critical perspective the imbrications between growth mechanisms and contemporary ecosystemic crises. Part 2.
Post Growth: a Toolkit for Radical Transitions (1/2)
Since 2018, DISNOVATION.ORG’s Post Growth project puts into critical perspective the imbrications between growth mechanisms and contemporary ecosystemic crises. Part 1: Toolkit.
Metamorphosis: ELEKTRA/BIAN channels virtual worlds and video games in Montreal
In June 2020, Elektra presented a hybrid biennial that hovered between virtual and real spaces in both Montreal and Seoul.
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand explore exotic physical phenomena
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand explore the increasingly intimate relationship between artistic visions and emerging scientific theories and discoveries.
Rocio Berenguer: “Dethrone humans from the summit of their pyramid”
Transdisciplinary artist Rocio Berenguer was in residence at Théâtre Nouvelle Génération in Lyon, France, from September 21 to October 9. Makery met her on site.
The wild adventures of Porte Nef
Awarded at Shenzhen Design Week 2019, Maxime Aumon’s “Porte Nef” is a surrealist, even dadaist, human adventure, in the form of a plurimedia work.