Herzliche
Einladung zu unseren bevorstehenden Veranstaltungen:Workshop zu Spiel und bio-ludischer MaterialitätMit einem Hands-on Workshop zu Spiel und bio-ludischer Materialität starten wir am 15. Mai um 13:00 Uhr mit der Künstler*in
und Aktivist*in Lyndsey Walsh.
Ludic Method SoiréeAm Abend folgt um 19:00 Uhr eine Ludic
method soirée im FLUX 2 mit Beiträgen von den Panelistas Lyndsey Walsh (Interfaces of Care), Enrique Torres (künstlerische
Tatsachen), Katja Banović & Xavier Madden (Bacteria Babies) und Ivan Jakarić, (BioLudicLab).
Die Veranstaltung
ist ein Teil des Projekts „The Psycho-Ludic Approach: Exploring play for a viable future“, unterstützt durch FWF/PEEK/ AR
787. Dieses Panel erforscht das Spiel als kritisches und kreatives Werkzeug zur Gestaltung zukünftiger Lebensweisen.
Wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Abend mit den folgenden Gästen und Beiträgen:Interfaces
of CareLyndsey Walsh
www.lyndseywalsh.comWorking
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.künstlerische TatsachenEnrique Torres
https://www.kuenstlerische-tatsachen.de/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 
