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.
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A fairy tale or a true possibility: traveling long distances by land and sea as a substitution for flying
Artist Johanna Sulalampi surface travelled from Finland to Cologne on a two-night trip. A realistic alternative to flying? In this text, she explores the opportunities of sustainable travel.
Tinku Uku Pacha in Ecuador: towards a second Soil Assembly in 2025
Tinku Uku Pacha, the next international meeting dedicated to art, soil and indigenous knowledge, will be in Ecuador's upper La Chimba valley, at the foot of the magnificent Cayambe volcano.
Human-flamingos, queer pokemons and other unique creatures at the BioFeral camp in Crete
The latest camp in the BioFeral.BeachCamp series of Ionian University's Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence program was held in Crete at the end of September. Lynn Hagan immerses us in the queer world of the organizers and participants of this decidedly feral lab.
Composing in Lapland, where the landscape becomes a verb
In July 2024, Johanna Ruotsalainen went to Sápmi for an art residency. With the support of Projekt Atol and its Mobility grant, she travelled through Finland, Sweden and Norway, encountering the landscape and its musicality.
Feral Circuits: Rewilding electro-cultures at HomeMade 2024
Reflections on a journey to the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society’s Homemade summer camp from July 27 to August 4, 2024 by Miranda Moss, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant.
Planetary Peasants, Werkleitz festival celebrates the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War
This text is an introduction to the exhibition Planetary Peasants at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, about the evolution of peasantry in Germany from Thomas Müntzer's Peasants War (15th century) to our times.
Sharing open-source knowledge: from Do-It-Yourself electronics to artist-run associations
Belarusian artist Maryia Kamarova was the 2024 winner of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant. She recounts her summer on the move for Makery.
Fungal cosmology investigations in Patagonia: “art-science research is an invention of modernity”
The Fungi Cosmology project is meeting this September in Switzerland for the latest chapter in their fungal investigations. Impressions from chapter 2 in Patagonia by artist Maya Minder.
Electric Wonderland: The chilly willy of maker camps, run by wizards
From july 21 to 28, the 6th edition of Electric Wonderland in Baške Oštarije, Croatia. gathered makers, tinkerers and artists. Makery was there sketching their secrets.
Hackers & Designers: a summer camp challenging power through collective making and being
For ten days in July, Hackers & Designers held the 2024 edition of their summer camp with a program full of workshops, interventions, communal activities, radio sessions, and collective experiments centered on the topic of “Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy”.
Helping migrant people to settle into agriculture and crafts in France
The Association A4 helps migrant people to settle projects in agriculture and crafts. Presentation.
Kerminy, a Space for Agriculture in Arts: Weathered Esthetics
We're experimenting with artistic and agricultural practices at Kerminy. Sonifying natural elements, caring for living things, self-building - we're working towards a concrete utopia.
At the Village of Water, care culture and a communal fight for sustainable uprisings
On July 16-21, over 120 organizations gathered at a temporary camp in the city of Melle in southwestern France.
Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole
From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Roger Pibernat, Makery's resident columnist for the Feral Labs Network, was there.
Land and Liberation: Congolese Plantation Workers’ Art Circle (CATPC)
CATPC members have just been awarded the Grand Prize at S+T+ARTS Africa 2024. Éléonore Hellio, special art consultant for CATPC since 2014, looks back on this inspiring Congolese intiative.
The 2024 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Makery brings you its selection of summer camps, for a DiY season in the great outdoors. A tour of Europe from Slovenia to Portugal, via Armenia, the UK and France!
Rewilding Cultures with Andrew Gryf Paterson: how to live in symbiocenic harmony with our changing environments (2/2)
Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, Andrew Gryf Paterson was able to embark on a slow travel from Finland to Serbia and Montenegro, to investigate what it means to be a climate migrant. Part 2.
Rewilding Cultures with Andrew Gryf Paterson: leaving comfort zones and academically clean spaces (1/2)
Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, Andrew Gryf Paterson was able to embark on a slow travel from Finland to Serbia and Montenegro, to investigate what it means to be a climate migrant. Part 1.
(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.