<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Thanks Shu Lea - </div><div>I read the Simbiotica announcement and reposted it (not the be confused with SymbioticA in UWA, Perth Australia!). Such a beautiful sounding place and event!</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a>> on behalf of shu lea cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net">shulea@earthlink.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> soft_skinned_space <<a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 12:49 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> soft_skinned_space <<a href="mailto:empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [-empyre-] writing from Buffalo: Coalesce Lab / BioArt and Food<br></div><div><br></div>----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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BioArt</title><div><div>Dear Kathy et all</div><div><br></div><div>I am most happy to learn about Coalesce Lab , Nature Lab in
the East-North area.</div><div>With the community Sanctuary for Independent Media has cultivated
over the years,</div><div>I am sure the DIY biolabs will grow and benefit a greater
community.</div><div><br></div><div>Following your many links, i want to plug in this open call from
Calafou, Spain.</div><div><br></div><div>with all respect</div><div>sl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#1A1A1A">------------------------------------------------------------<br>
*[en] Hack the Earth: SIMBIOTICA / 22-24 abril*<br>
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The 4th edition of HachTheEarth is coming!<br>
>From 22 to 24 april, SIMBIOTICA a call to learn and share about
relationships of coexistence with our toxic environment, ecological
resilience, the action of planning from the bodies the gelocalization
movement, health of the community organs.<br>
BODY, FOOD & WATER are the main nodes that we'll work on the
event.<br><br>
We are open to proposals related to the WATER node (rain harvest,
bioremediation, phytodepuration for example), make it trought the
formulari. [1]<br><br>
Confirmed for now:<br>
First Aids: basic notions from experience<br>
DIY Gynecology and Proctology<br>
Self-physiotherapy<br>
Introduction of Ayurveda, her history and applicability of her
practices in the practice of DIY medicine.<br>
Symbiotic Micro-macro organism. Isolation of Lactobacilus from our
vaginal flora to make Yogurt.<br>
Toxic intra-actions and abstrac machines<br>
Solar dryer as a conservative metyhod for food<br>
Kit natural remedies and body listening<br><br>
For more info about other proposals that we are working on it and the
ones that are pending to confirm,<br>
visit the WIKI Hack The Earth: simBIOtica >></font><font face="Arial" color="#093ACA"><u>
<a href="http://wiki.calafou.org/index.php?title=Hack_The_Earth:_simBIOtica">http://wiki.calafou.org/index.php?title=Hack_The_Earth:_simBIOtica</a></u></font><font face="Arial" color="#1A1A1A"><br><br>
keywords: DIY medicine, biohacking, simbiosis, body, fluids,
autonomy<br><br>
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<a href="https://calafou.org/es/content/hack-earth-simbiotica-22-24-abril-conv">https://calafou.org/es/content/hack-earth-simbiotica-22-24-abril-conv</a><span></span>ocatoria</u></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-3" color="#1A1A1A"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>At 11:48 AM -0400 3/27/16, Kathy High wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="">----------empyre- soft-skinned
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Hi Amanda and everyone!<br><br>
Amanda - Thanks for mentioning NATURE Lab and the work going on at
The</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="">Sanctuary for Independent Media
(mediasanctuary.org) The Sanctuary's<br>
mission is to use art and participatory action to promote social
and<br>
environmental justice and freedom of creative expression.
Celebrating our<br>
10th year anniversary this year, we have developed a very local
presence<br>
in North Troy - a community that is part of the post-industrial
complex<br>
left over from the height of its heyday - with brown fields, river<br>
pollution, food deserts, abandoned houses and lots and a low
income<br>
economy. We have adopted many of the abandoned lots on this one block
and<br>
- as Amanda said - have turned them into thriving gardens and
compost<br>
sites. Now we are rehabbing an old building we purchased for cheap for
a<br>
DIY NATURE Lab community bio educational center in tandem with a
local<br>
biomaker group of scientists who call themselves BioPalette. So the
lab<br>
will help facilitate the work going on in the gardens and teach people
to<br>
do soil and water testing with DIY kits, analyze ph levels, site
examples<br>
of urban biodiversity and more! NATURE Lab stands for "North Troy
Art,<br>
Technology and Urban Research in Ecology." We will keep you updated
on<br>
this new project as we will hopefully - some day - offer an artist<br>
residency program where people can come to use the lab, and the<br>
lots/gradens to further their own food, field, animal or other bio
type<br>
projects!<br><br>
For my own art work, I am luckily on sabbatical this year and am
diving<br>
deeper into the gut biome with a project I am calling (as an
umbrella)<br>
"Gut Love". I spent a month as an artist in residence at Will
dePaolo's<br>
gut biome lab at the University of Southern California, LA, CA. The
lab<br>
team was amazing there and we did a lot of crazy projects together.
So<br>
look out for more info on fecal microbial transplants in the near
future!</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="">At present this topic is big in the media
- but it is amazing to think</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="">ecologically about our body's systems
and with whom we cohabit in terms of<br>
bacteria, yeast, fungi - which is also directly related to FOOD!
Other<br>
artists also thinking/working on this bacterial/microbial front
include<br>
Anna Dumitriu from UK, Tagny Duff from Canada, Kira O'Reilly now
in<br>
Finland, and Adam Zartsky from US! I know there are many others. Š
Please<br>
see the great exhibition "Gut Instinct" that was curated by
curated by<br>
Charissa N. Terranova and David R. Wessner through the NYC Sci/Art
Center.<br>
<a href="http://www.sciartcenter.org/gut-instinct.html">http://www.sciartcenter.org/gut-instinct.html</a><br><br>
I have loved reading all these entries and learning about
everyone's<br>
current and past works. Some of my favorite people in the world
have<br>
posted with this discussion! Thanks for bringing it all together
Amanda!!!<br>
With deep respect and many thanks to you all, Kathy High<br><br>
<br><br>
On 3/24/16, 1:29 PM, "Amanda McDonald Crowley"<br>
<<a href="mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a> on behalf of<br>
<a href="mailto:amandamcdc@gmail.com">amandamcdc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
>----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
>Hi Renate and all,<br>
><br>
>On Mar 24, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I am struck at this morning, as I get ready to participate in
an Art<br>
>>and Biology<br>
>> workshop<br>
><br>
><br>
>Excited to hear that you are in Buffalo for the launch of Paul
Vanouse's<br>
>Coalesce Lab initiative. I can't wait to get up there myself at
some<br>
>point!<br>
><br>
>I'm sorry that I have been slow to respond these last few days. I
have a<br>
>seriously ill cat at the moment and we've been spending a lot of
time<br>
>going back and forth to the veterinary hospital. Perhaps poignant
to this<br>
>discussion is that he has serious issues with his Gastro
Intestinal Tract<br>
>- we're not sure what just yet, or even whether it is treatable
or<br>
>terminal. So I've been a bit distracted, but remaining
hopeful.<br>
><br>
>I will leave it to Nicole to respond about WFiM. But I think
you'll find<br>
>links to both the exhibition and the non-profit from her web
site.<br>
><br>
>I can speak a little to the Bio-Art / lab and food question
though.<br>
>Bioart is a term I am not especially fond of, but I won't go into
that<br>
>here, because it certainly has some currently in this specific
area of<br>
>practice.<br>
><br>
>Interestingly, right at the moment I am working on finalizing a
report<br>
>I've been doing, undertaking research for Kathy High on the
numerous<br>
>bioart labs that are being established across the globe, to help
her and<br>
>The Sanctuary for Independent Media as they establish their NATURE
Lab<br>
>program and activities in Troy, New York.<br>
><a href="http://www.mediasanctuary.org/naturelab">http://www.mediasanctuary.org/naturelab</a><br>
><br>
>One of the things that is so exciting about the NATURE Lab project
for<br>
>me, is that it is part of an integrated series of projects and
spaces<br>
>established by The Sanctuary including media labs; Collard City
Growers -<br>
>an urban food project; the L Lot - a bio remediation project... So
food,<br>
>art and biology will definitely figure centrally in the programs
they are<br>
>developing. It is very grass roots, locally engaged, has a
strong<br>
>community focus, is deeply concerned with issued of access, and
also a<br>
>integrated emphasis on art and creative practices. Incidentally,
Kathy<br>
>also mentioned that she has been lurking and enjoying the
conversation<br>
>when we last spoke - perhaps this might prod you into contributing
a<br>
>small post about the project (and your work more generally) Kathy?
;)<br>
><br>
>Suzanne Anker runs an entire course on food projects in the
bio-art world<br>
>at SVA in New York:
<a href="http://bioart.sva.edu/food-projects-in-bio-art/">http://bioart.sva.edu/food-projects-in-bio-art/</a><br>
>Anker has also established a bioart lab at SVA<br>
><a href="http://www.suzanneanker.com/bio-art-lab/">http://www.suzanneanker.com/bio-art-lab/</a><br>
>Additionally food systems certainly figure significantly in
Anker's own<br>
>work as well.<br>
><br>
>In 2012 I organized an exhibition at CalIT2 Gallery at the
University of<br>
>California, San Diego. Titled CONSUME, several of the projects in
the<br>
>show specifically looked at biology, art, and food systems<br>
><a href="http://publicartaction.net/consume/">http://publicartaction.net/consume/</a><br>
><br>
>I included Beatriz da Costa's "Dying for the Other" a
video triptych<br>
>juxtaposing the lives of breast cancer research mice and a
human</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="">>(herself) suffering from the same
disease. The piece was part of the</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="">>series of work she was developing
towards the end of her life called "The<br>
>Cost of Life". Another work in the series was called
"The Life Garden"<br>
>which was an anti-cancer medicinal and demonstration garden, that
we<br>
>installed at Eyebeam when da Costa was in-residence there. -
and food<br>
>and health certainly featured as a key element in that body of
work.<br>
><a href="http://bdacosta.net/">http://bdacosta.net/</a><br>
><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_da_Costa">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_da_Costa</a><br>
><br>
>Brandon Balangee's "Committed", "Dedicated",
and "Tears of Och¨²n"<br>
>projects respond to the global crisis of fisheries worldwide but
more<br>
>specifically the unraveling of the food chain in the Gulf of
Mexico<br>
>following the 2010 BP Deep Horizon oil spill. Brandon actually
also<br>
>worked with Nicole Caruth out in Omaha to exhibit the other
significant,<br>
>and very beautiful installation that is part of that body of work,
titled<br>
>Collapse. Documentation of the full series is here:<br>
><a href="http://brandonballengee.com/collapse-the-cry-of-silent-forms/">http://brandonballengee.com/collapse-the-cry-of-silent-forms/</a><br>
><br>
>Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr project - Tissue Culture and Art
Project's<br>
>Remains of Disembodies Cuisine - documents a performance 'feast'
of tiny,<br>
>semi-living frog steaks that were grown for almost three months
in<br>
>bioreactors, with video made in collaboration with Jens Hauser.
The<br>
>installation played on the notion of different cultural
perceptions of<br>
>what is edible and ironically offered the possibility of eating
meat<br>
>without killing animals, creating a victimless meat. However it
also<br>
>provided a serious critique of current methods of tissue culture
which<br>
>require the use of animal-derived products as a substantial part
of the<br>
>nutrients provided to the cells, so not so "victimless"
after all.<br>
><a href="http://tcaproject.org/">http://tcaproject.org/</a><br>
><br>
>And for those on the list who don't know, Oron and Ionat were also
key<br>
>players in the establishment of possibly one of the first bio-art
labs,<br>
>SymbioticA - a lab that provides artists and researchers a space
to<br>
>engage in wet biology practices in a biological science
department.<br>
><a href="http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/">http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/</a><br>
><br>
>And Stefani Bardin, who we heard from earlier in this thread about
her<br>
>mapping project with Marina and the NYU research group might also
be<br>
>interested to pipe back into the conversation briefly to talk a
little<br>
>about her M2A project, which is currently installed at the
Cathedral of<br>
>St John the Divine here in NYC in an exhibition curated by Kirby
Gookin<br>
>and Robin Kahn titled "The Value of Food".<br>
><a href="http://www.stjohndivine.org/programs/vof/about/exhibition">http://www.stjohndivine.org/programs/vof/about/exhibition</a> I
wouldn't<br>
>describe M2A as a bio-art project per se, but it is a project
that<br>
>resulted in a very interesting art-science collaboration between
Stefani<br>
>and a gastroenterologist, Bradon Kuo.<br>
><br>
>So these are a few examples of work that I think really deeply
address<br>
>this question of cross disciplinary collaboration, and also our
food<br>
>systems; and many are also taking a deep look at food justice and
social<br>
>justice issues more broadly.<br>
><br>
>best<br>
><br>
>Amanda<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>--<br>
>Amanda McDonald Crowley<br>
>Cultural Worker / Curator<br>
><a href="http://publicartaction.net">http://publicartaction.net</a><br>
><br>
>@amandamcdc<br>
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