Tag: art

Tending to Elusive Matter

September 23, 2024

by sina

A living potato decomposes over time. A seemingly alchemical process transforms living matter into a supple, atemporal, odorless piece. How durable is bioplastic? Who negotiates the degree of solubility? Is non-toxicity the criterium? In her research, Gülşah investigates the thermoplasticity of starch. Plants store energy in the form of starch. Animal bodies can’t make starch; they digest it to obtain energy. Humans learned to transform it outside of their bodies, too, to make fuel or different materials.
Sina Ribak

Extract of the text featured in Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s catalogue:

Around a Tree – A marathon of voices to connect plants and people

July 15, 2024

by sina

From the perspective of plant life, what does climate justice mean?

Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) presents an artistic public intervention in the Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Together with the Colombian cultural foundation MAMA I will host encounters between visitors, artists and scientists co-creating a space to experience and discuss interconnections between humans and plants in times of rapid biodiversity loss.

Publishing Matters

June 28, 2024

by sina

Join us at the Temporary Editorial Office of Occulto at Art Laboratory Berlin. Sending Occulto 8 to Print – A Temporary Editorial Office as Performance, Organic Exhibition, and Non-systematic Archive, is the project by Alice Cannavà, editorial resident of Art Laboratory Berlin.

Around a Tree

June 18, 2024

by sina

What can plants teach us? “Around a Tree” – a project initiated by Fernando Arias, James Richardson, Jonathan Colin, Lucia Lohmann, Mateo Suarez, Miguel Navas, Paola Pérez, Sina Ribak – wants to learn about the work of Plant Science research how it can contribute to understand better the relations of plants and climate change.

Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #49

May 17, 2024

by sina

Have you been into composting lately? Making soil definitely is a good idea. We also ask what soil is. Soil is home to 90% of the world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria – and 59% of life overall, a recent study says. Let’s look closer at soil organisms through the art and science practice of a microbiologist, who brings the tiniest soil world to light.

Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care

March 21, 2024

by sina

Book launch Art Laboratory Berlin

MATTER OF FLUX is a unique project that combines micro views on the cellular level with macro perspectives on more-than-human ecologies. The project is based upon the careful network creation of research hives.
Regine Rapp (Art Laboratory Berlin)

Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #48

March 11, 2024

by sina

Up to 90% of living organisms live or spend part of their life cycle in soils. 95% of our food comes from soils. Most soil is degraded. In a time of planetary change, we want to expand our views on soil.

An Encounter with Leaves

October 8, 2023

by sina

The agency of chlorophyll engenders tree-insect-sun relationships that are often symbiotic and that I see as a way to co-create knowledges.

OO [Open Occulto] // Session 3

May 17, 2023

by sina

Participants are invited to visit – and tend – a garden of ideas, stories, and practices that will connect with past and future Occulto publications and events, while also encouraging detours into new collaborations and projects.

A Walk Exploring the Urban Biosphere // November 27, 2022

November 24, 2022

by sina

Investigating the relationship between Tegel residents, the biosphere and the city, in this walk we observe wildlife interactions in the area between the Flughafensee and the Tegeler See. For instance, we learn about human-beaver negotiations around the willow tree.