The "Ocean-Space-Ocean" symposium at ISEA 2023 brought together artists and researchers to question the role of the oceans in planetary balances and the perspectives offered by marine biodiversity in the ecological transition.
On April 6, the Aerocene community attempted a world record for a solar balloon flight, near Maintenon, France.
The book "Space Without Rockets" adresses the ways in which we could travel away to space, sustainably. Makery publishes three of the texts from this essential reading. First text (part two) by Rob La Frenais.
The book "Space Without Rockets" adresses the ways in which we could travel away to space, sustainably. Makery publishes three of the texts from this essential reading. First text (part one) by Rob La Frenais.
‘More Than Living’ opened on September 27 at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. It was a complex, multi-faceted and ambitious project on several levels. The exhibition is visible until October 22nd. Makery attempted an overview.
On September 23-24, Global Periphery symposium was exploring the contemporary imaginaries of space through examples of artistic creations from the space sector with voices from multiple continents and locations.
In parallel to their new exhibition 'Hackers, Makers, Thinkers - Collective experiments in social fermenting', a two days event was proposed at Art Laboratory Berlin.
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.
In Airship Dreams: Escaping Gravity exhibition and publication, artist Mike Stubbs explores Britain’s Imperial Airship programme, as well as reflecting on our sense of place, belonging and ownership of our society and its direction.
One of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s most ambitious projects is due to be completed posthumously in September, the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
The STRP (pronounced "Strype") Festival opened in the Strijp-S area of Eindhoven, Holland, from June 2-6. Makery spoke to festival director Ton Van Gool on the first day of the festival.
Helena Nikonole and Lucy Ojomoko create genetically modified bacteria of human skin microbiome that affect the sense of smell transmitted by the human body, a radical approach to issues of health and disease prevention.
Jeremy Narby, the worldwide-known author of ‘The Cosmic Serpent’ (1998) is releasing a new book this year, ‘Plant Teachers - Tobacco and Ayhuasca’. Interview.
The 11th Liverpool Biennial opens this 20 March 2021. 'The Stomach and the Port' explores notions of the body and ways of connecting with the world. Makery discussed with the Biennal's curator Manuela Moscoso.
In ‘Extraterrestrial - The First Sign of Intelligent Life beyond Earth’, Avi Loeb, former chair of astronomy at Harvard University, confirms that the interstellar object `Oumuamua, could be a sign of extraterrestial life. Review.
Sophie Hoyle explores an intersectional approach to post-colonial, queer, feminist, critical psychiatry and disability issues.” The artist will be in Bourges in April.
Tiny Mining is a mineral exploration co-operative and community committed to the open source exploitation of the interior of the human body for rare earth and other mineral resources.
The Rencontres Internationales Monde-s Multiple-s was is held online from November 13 to December 6. Interview with Vienne Chan and Boris Oicherman from The Forms of Ownership.
As part of the Rencontres Internationales Monde-s Multiple-s in Bourges, France, we met the artists Daniela Mitterberger & Tiziano Derme on their work with bats and interspecies communication.
The Rencontres Monde-s Multiple-s will be held online from November 13 to December 6. Interview with Kat Austen on her multimedia project ‘Stranger to the Trees’, microplastics and coexistence.
