BIOLUDIC FLOW Soirée
Working with life can get messy. There is an
ever-growing tension that forms between the desires and needs of two entities entering an exchange. The process of making
art with living materials and organisms can often reveal how complex and entangled the networks of relationships are. This
talk and workshop will explore how care and caring systems can be integrated into artistic practice, how we can read and generate
meaning from the aesthetics of care, and how we can rethink and reimagine interfaces of care to engage with living materials,
organisms, and systems.
Lyndsey Walsh is an American artist, writer, and researcher
based in Berlin, DE. Lyndsey has a Bachelor’s in Individualised Studies from New York University and a Master’s in Biological
Arts with Distinction from SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Lyndsey’s
practice fuses speculative narratives and horror with autoethnographic investigations into the ruptures created by technology
in the corporality of culture. Lyndsey sets out to question the cultural binaries of human-non-human, diseased-healthy, and
life-machine using Crip, Queer, and intersectional feminist frameworks. Currently, Lyndsey is the first and only residing
artist of the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Their work has been featured in events
and with institutions such as Frieze Art Week New York, the Humboldt Forum, the Ural Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, Athens
Digital Arts Festival, Transmediale/CTM, and more.
Bacteria Babies
Katja Banović & Xavier
Madden
www.bacteriababies.com
Bacteria Babies is a project which focused on the experimental growth of bacterial
cellulose and worked with 65 participants between Pula (HR) and Vienna (AT). This decentralised factory aimed to explore two
questions: How well can bacterial cellulose grow in varying conditions? And how customizable are the growth processes? What
initially appeared to be two straightforward questions evolved into a nuanced exploration of the relationships between people,
bacteria, and the environments in which we live.
Katja Banović and Xavier Madden
are European-based designers with backgrounds in architecture, stage design, and set design. Since receiving their diplomas
from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2022), they focused on creating atmospheric spaces that foster community interaction
through their performative qualities. Some of their recent projects include spatial installations for Museumsquartier Vienna,
Waking Life Music and Arts Festival Portugal, Pitch Music and Arts Festival Australia, Winter Stations Toronto, and Base Milano
for Milan Design and Art Weeks. Previously, Xavier was also a research assistant for Co-Corporeality, a project that addressed
responsive spaces in the era of biomediality which was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and won best project at ACADIA
2022. There, he gained valuable knowledge in the production and treatment of bacterial cellulose.
We bring
science and art together and develop unique places of exchange between the disciplines! The project enables scientists to
gain new perspectives on their work and artists to expand their practice through scientific methods. The cities of Jena and
Ulm will be opened up as a meeting place for the arts and science community. An artistic research process that is transparent
to the public provides the basis for future encounters between science and art.
Enrique Xavier Torres Solorzano
(he/him), based in Berlin and Jena, is an
independent curator skilled in merging the arts with technology. He graduated
with
distinction from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Cross-Disciplinary Strategies).
Since 2018, Enrique
has been integral to the re:publica team, notably expanding the
Off Stage Program. He initiated the "künstlerische Tatsachen"
(kT) residency, a program that brings together artists and scientists to develop research-driven artworks. The label kT has
evolved into a recognized regional actor that now produces and consults on transdisciplinary
