Tag Archives: wetlab
Getting the most out of inhabiting the North of art/science by bringing in the bag the cosmopractices of the South
There is an immense accumulation of knowledge that comes from discomfort or friction, and that allows the emergence of discourses and practices that go halfway or beyond modern Western thought and the ancestral knowledge breathed in other lands. There is something in the discomfort or friction that allows for the experience – sometimes enriching, sometimes […]
Open Call Wetlab 2025/2026
Open call for residencies at Hangar’s Wetlab (1 year).
Deadline for applications: until January 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm.
Places available: 2
Duration of the residency: from April 2025 to March 2026.
Result of the selection: end of February 2025.
Access to Wetlab, programs and services: €80 per month (VAT included).
Deposit: €80 to be returned at the end of […]
Call: Humedal II
Wetlands all over the planet are disappearing. Barcelona is becoming more and more arid, so we invite you to a collective residence to regenerate the wetlands of the laboratory. It is also about opening the space to local inhabitants to activate the most micro and everyday fabric of the city.
For two weeks the Wetlab will […]
Microscope Party
On 17 February between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m Ce Quimera + Gaia Leandra from Hangar’s Wetlab organize the Microscope Party, an experimental microscopy session and a meeting for those who want to explore a world that is invisible to the human eye.
This project has been supported by the Barcelona 2020 Award Grants from Barcelona […]
Open call for collectives in residence at Hangar’s Wetlab
From now until 3 July 2020, the submission of applications is open.
Start of the residence: August/September 2020
Result of the selection: mid-July 2020
Cost: Free
Deposit: 100 Euros which will be returned at the end of the stay
Residence conditions
The wetlab is a space where hybrid interactions that disrupt the limits generally established between art and science take place under […]
Biofriction Open Call Resolution
Biofriction selection committee, formed by Lluís Nacenta (Hangar), Laura Benítez Valero (Biofriction Art Director), Erich Berger (Bioart Society), Simon Streljaj (Kapelica), Marta de Menezes (Cultivamos Cultura), Quimera Rosa (external jury member) and Isabelle Carlier from Bandit Mages (external jury member) has decided, among the 133 valid applications received, to award the grant to:
– Maddalena Fragnito and […]
Cicatrization group
Grupo de cicatrización meets periodically at the Hangar wetlab to share knowledge related to the tattoo. It is a meeting open to any interested in practicing, learning or being tattooed.
Under the idea that biomedicine is not the owner of (un)care, this group understands itself as a community of resistance to Western, heteropatriarchal and capitalist authority through […]
Questions, debates and proposals to elaborate an open protocol for the use of wetlab
Every Tuesday from the October 15 until December 17, Laura Benítez moderates a series of open sessions where sharing questions, debates and proposals to elaborate an open protocol for the use of the wetlab. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in Hangar’s wetlab.
There is, a Philosophy of “life” in Spinoza; it consist
precisely in […]
Tattoos and nothingness, or, your body was already tattooed before you put ink
On December 13 from 16 h to 7.30 pm takes place the theoretical/practical activity Tattoos and nothing, or, your body was already tattooed before you put ink, taught by Violeta Mayoral and Lucía Egaña in Hangar’s Wetlab. The meeting focuses on the existentialist nature and the political-spiritual dimensions of the practice in the significance of […]
First meeting of PUAJ! Open Laboratory of Living Cultures
On October 31st from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. the Hangar Wetlab hosts AAgua animada, the first session of a cycle of sessions organised by PUAJ!, an open laboratory that emerges from the Hangar Fermentation Group.
“Our symbiotic, interactive and interdependent past is connected through animated waters.”
MARGULIS, Lynn.
The laboratory starts from Vernadsky’s concept of […]
SF Trans*Plant. A theorical-practical bio-hacking / bio-art workshop by Quimera Rosa
The SF Trans*Plant A theorical-practical bio-hacking / bio-art workshop by the Quimera Rosa collective will take place in Hangar on 17th, 18th and 25th June from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
After the introduction presented in Hangar on
Quimera Rosa starts its residency with the project Trans*Plant
From the 4th to the 30th of June the collective Quimera Rosa carries out a residence in Hangar’s wetlab. The objective of this residence is the continuation of the project ‘Trans*Plant: Mi Enfermedad es una Creación Artística started in the framework of the Prototyp_ome programme.
This medical self-experimentation project on condylomata acuminata, an STI produced […]
Third edition DIY microscope workshop
On May 8th at 6.30 pm, the IMVEC residence collective proposes an appointment to build DIY microscopes in the Hangar wetlab.
Contents: We will guide the participants through the construction of their own microscope with affordable materials: cardboard, screws, web cameras and tape. The model is built in half an hour and is connected to a […]
