Braiding friction
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and postponed activities, Biofriction is setting up a a series of Working Groups and online events to instigate an informed discussion on current situation and possible scenarios.
What does it mean to be acting in accordance with to “flatten” the mathematically constructed curve? Speculatively, it seems a little reminiscent of aspiring for the best possible version of the present. What is the role of art in the unpacking/understanding of the now? How can art mobilise a better understanding of possible futures? How can art spaces be prepared to respond to this possible pendulum of cyclical outbreaks? What alliances can be woven in this context of precariousness, life, death, and malaise?
Since June 2nd, four groups will work for one month on these and other specific questions and concerns raising from the current situation. The presentations and working groups can be followed in streaming at https://stream.biofriction.org/.
Working groups
Working group focused on the following investigations, among others: What is the role of art in the unpacking/understanding of the now? How can art mobilise a better understanding of possible futures? How can we understand the long- and short-term (temporal); local and global (spatial); micro- and macro-scales of more-than-human and non/living actants and the processes of the Anthropocene they are involved in (like previously unknown viruses, for example)?
Workgroup interested in the disintegration of the thick now and in the fluidity of the memory. They will strive to be attentive to the various ways, in which the messages are resurfacing (for example, in linguistics) and in the ways, memories are being re/created.
Working group focused on the following investigations, among others: Can we articulate a re-politicization of the malaise? Can we think of new models of accountability? How to confront suffering? Are we able to confront some less-than-pleasant thoughts that emerge when we think about the pandemic crisis, environmental struggle, and justice? What alliances can be woven in this context of precariousness, life, death, and malaise?
The objective of this workgroup is the development of different scenarios for insuring the access to art as an essential need for the cultural identity of a society and its individuals. It aims to propose a variety of provisions that can guarantee the required level of biosafety and security engineering further than physical distancing and the adequate methods of decontamination in art spaces.
Calendar/Presentations
1st Presentation and introduction to the working groups
Tuesday, june 2nd. 6 pm (CET)
https://stream.biofriction.org/
Working groups
Non Living Queerings
Wednesday, June 17th. 6 pm (CET)
https://stream.biofriction.org/
Phageologies
Friday, July 10th. 8 pm (CET)
https://stream.biofriction.org/
Aero-Sol-Nauts
Wednesday, July 15th. 6 pm (CET)
https://stream.biofriction.org/
Arts Shows and Public Health
Thursday, July 23th. 6 pm (CET)
https://stream.biofriction.org/
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