Thank you to everyone who came along to a great wierdass Bioart Society kirppis at SOLU yesterday to browse and buy; books, rocks, scientific glass, prosthetics, magnifying lenses and boxes, slime mould other disorders of things.
As a member of Bioart Society I initiated the event, however its ebullient success was the outcome of everyone who participated; there were two sellers, Erich Berger and Laura Beloff, and myself. Thank you to them both, to Velho for canine support and to Yvonne Billmore as well as the punters.
Here in Finland we know the Kirppis as a deeply established convention, the impromptu and otherwise selling and redistributing of things. For artists, workshopologists, technologists and mattering philosophers, flea markets facilitate the generative potentials of wilful browsing. Serendipitous connections suggest themselves, the Le Guinian Carrier Bag of Fictioning manifests, the magical operations of correspondences - the dis/ordering of things - tally.
Some of the terrific topics of conversation in no particular order:
Slime moulds
DIY microscopy
Forest accessories and essentials
Geology
Hackteria*
Workshops and workshopolgy*
Prosthetics
Books and print media, why they and our braided histories of practice are vital
Some of the artists and orgs chatted about:
Arts Catalyst: projects curated by Rob La Frenais and Nicola Triscott
Arts at Cern
Heather Barnett
Helen Chadwick
Beatriz da Costa
Critical Art Ensemble
Andy Gracie
Hackteria
Marc Dusseiller
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism (BQF)
Slime Molds, wild and unwind
SymbioticA
Neal White
‘ Workshopology: Marc Dusseiller, Hackteria instigator, talks about workshopology with a sense of workshoping the workshop whilst running the workshop. My words - he’s far more articulate than that.
Mary Maggic refers to this and Hackteria a lot when giving their lineage line, expressing thus: Workshopology describes collaborative hands-on experimentation as an iterative process and design strategy that takes feedback from its own mishaps, accidents, and participant experiences in order to develop new methodologies in the future Source: https://maggic.ooo/Mobile-Lab-Workshopology