Results of the Fem_Lab Catalunya-Austria Grant

The jury, composed of Patricia Reis (Mz* Baltazar’s Lab) and Veronica Valentini (Hangar), gathered on 22 July 2024

DECIDES:

To award the Fem_Lab Catalonia-Austria, one-week research residency and exchange grant at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab (Vienna) to Marzia Matarese with the project Dreaming about mushrooms dreaming about me sleeping between their gills.

About Dreaming about mushrooms dreaming about me sleeping between their gills
Dreaming about mushrooms dreaming about me sleeping between their gills is an embodied research project that evokes the desire to establish a common perspective with mushrooms from which to create language, memory, body and meaning together. The project proposes an exploration of the complex relationships that can be established with a fellow species, appealing to the construction of an extended kinship outside the epistemic framework of human exceptionalism and situated in post-natural (and post-human) queer ecologies. As part of this process, a speculative technique and embodied strategies take shape that intertwine exercises in fiction, biological experimentation and artistic practice.

About the Fem_Lab Catalonia-Austria exchange project
The Fem_Lab Catalonia-Austria exchange project is a collaboration between Mz* Baltazar’s Lab and Hangar, promoted by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia in Central Europe and the Institut Ramon Llull to support artistic exchange between Catalonia and Austria, and the research project Feminist Hacking: Building Circuits as an Artistic Practice funded by FWF – Austrian Science Fund | PEEK (AR580) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. www.feministhacking.org

We thank everyone who sent in their proposals and congratulate Marzia Matarese.

Image: Marzia Matarese