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Research Gathering with Bartaku & Christina - Periferry

maja — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:08:30 +0000

Start: 2010-04-02 18:00 Europe/Brussels

End: 2010-04-02 21:00 Europe/Brussels

From December 2009 to February 2010, Christina Stadlbauer (Body Water) and Bartaku (A Slow Flow) were residents at the Periferry 1.0 project in Guwahati, North-East India.

They will share their findings and experiences during a Research Gathering at FoAM.

Christina Stadlbauer: BODY WATER
Every-day-medicine in every-day-life - tales from Himalaya's feet

Intensive investigations on herbal medicine, water and the regional cuisine were conducted in the N-E-Indian state of Assam. The experimental research, a day to day quest, became the core of a residency at periferry - governmental, non-functional ferry for crossing the Brahmaputra and unique, interdisciplinary platform for artists and similar breeds. Numerous arranged and accidental encounters with local wells of knowledge, adventurous purchasing at Ulan and Pan Bazaar, and visits of nurseries and botanical gardens resulted in a peripheral archive of medicinal plants cum interactive lunch preparations - and moving images.

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Bartaku: A SLOW FLOW
A residency at periferry 1.0, fused by:

The ferry, a redundant icon of the fossil fuel era, the Brahmaputra river with its highly energetic currents, fed by the mighty mountains up North; the growing multi-tribal city of Guwahati where the wild edible power plants rich soil is eaten by concrete buildings; the Indian Institute of Technology, exclusive residence of the chosen ones; and especially, the giraffe of the Zoo-cum-Botanical garden. A residency that evolved into the elaboration of PhoEf*-narratives, embodied by micro-interventions, a workshop and an essay.

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About Periferry 1.0

"The "Periferry1.0 " project is an alternative space that works as an incubator for transforming cultural productions. The project is designed to link together the cultural energies of the Northeast India with other parts of South and Southeast Asia and the world. It is a laboratory for people engaged in hybrid practices, people whose knowledge tends to fall through gaps between disciplines, people who thrive in the interstitial spaces between art, culture and science, technology and ecology.
The project focuses on the creation of a network space for negotiating the challenge of contemporary cultural production. It is located on a ferry on river Brahmaputra"

www.periferry.in

* This residency is a part of PhoEf: The Undisclosed Poésis of the Photovoltaic Effect - a research project on the relation between light power and electricity at the interstices of arts, science and technology. http://libarynth.org/luminous/phoef

The residency is included in FoAM's 2010 Euro-Asian residency programme, supported by the Flemish Authorities.

corrupted HD

maja — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:41:35 +0000

Image by Angelo Vermeulen, 2009

Corrupted C#n#m#

maja — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:34:53 +0000

Image by Angelo Vermeulen, 2009

gRig: PhoEf Workshop

maja — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:39:58 +0000

Start: 2009-05-11 09:00 GMT+2

End: 2009-05-14 09:00 GMT+2

Bart Vandeput will lead a gRig workshop on Photovoltaics for artists.

Phoef & Biomodd

maja — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:12:45 +0000

Start: 2009-01-24 20:00 Europe/Brussels

At the Burning Ice festival: Re-thinking the Future'
Two of FoAM's researchers in residence will talk about their climate related work.

Bartaku will present PhoEf in the form of a mini-workshop and a talk.
http://x4.fo.am/phoef/

Angelo Vermeulen will present his project Biomodd in the evening.
http://www.biomodd.net/

http://www.kaaitheater.be/productie.jsp?productie=511

48 degrees Celsius

maja — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:53:31 +0000

Start: 2008-12-13 10:45 GMT+7

End: 2008-12-13 12:00 GMT+7

Bart Vandeput is representing FoAM as the Provocateur of the City Space and The Every Day session of 48 degrees Celsius, Symposium on public space, art and ecology:

http://www.48c.org

PHOEF - The Undisclosed Poesis of the Photovoltaic Effect.

nik — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:58:54 +0000

PhoEf - Photons Crash on the Arts

maja — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:00:25 +0000

Start: 2008-09-02 17:45 GMT+2

End: 2008-09-02 19:00 GMT+2

Bartaku's 'PhoEf' exposé at the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy and Conference and Exhibition'

Session nr.: 5BO.
Feria de Valencia, Auditorium 3a - Valencia, Spain
http://www.photovoltaic-conference.com

PhoEf aims to provide insight about aims and aesthetics of converting solar radiation into electricity. More particularly, the opportunities that photovoltaic technologies provide to artistic creations, performances, and interventions that make use of electrical energy.

http://x4.fo.am/phoef/

Vlaamse Overheid

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:36 +0000

Culture 2000

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:19:08 +0000

Sanjeev Shankar: WcCafe

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:04:12 +0000

Toilets have been a source of taboo, embarrassment and humour in many cultures. This project explores the subject of toilets and defecation and aims to bring it out in the open. The intent is to create a cafe which makes toilet discussion a table discussion, thereby giving it legitimacy. ‘WcCafe’ would serve coffee and snacks in an environment which is beautiful, refreshing and purposeful.

In progress: http://libarynth.org/wccafe_report

Bartaku: PhoEf

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:36:31 +0000

PhoEf is a research project exploring the essence, use and abuse of the photovoltaic effect - the conversion of light in electrical energy - in the realms of science, industry, technology and the arts. PhoEf emerged from a personal, transversal flight through the interconnected worlds behind and around photovoltaics; a technology based on A.E. Becquerel's 1839 observation of the photovoltaic effect. PhoEf is embedded in a rich, multidisciplinary, historical context.

In progress: http://libarynth.org/luminous/phoef

Sanjeev Shankar: RUrban Permaculture

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:27:42 +0000

This project explores aspects of human environment, its relation with ecology and our attempt to encourage more sustainable growth. The relevant fields of inquiry are urban ecology, sustainability, human plant interaction and biomorphism. The research explores ways in which we can transform our cities into productive, healthy, edible and playful green visions. In recent years there has been a growing public movement to bring ecology into urban environments where many people spend most of their time. However, people are still grappling with the problem of a balance between 'growth' and conservation. This problem is not limited to emerging cities in the developing world. The thrust of this research is to explore methods to initiate collective public action in this direction.

In progress: http://libarynth.org/research_report_sanjeev-shankar

Theun Karelse: Tsunamipants

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:10:42 +0000

How do you relate to global crises in a way that is not demotivating? The discussion about our future is dominated by appeals for austerity and reduction. This is not a very inspiring message as it focuses on negative aspects of society. It is hard to see a positive revolution on a global scale, based on negative arguments. Instead we should focus on positive changes that inspire everyone. This debate should be dominated by the possibility of increasing the quality of life.

The Tsunamipants project shows the traps that are hidden in responding to problems by coming up with solutions that are built within the limits of the problem. This invariably creates new versions of the same problem, it doesn't solve them. That is the tragedy in which the inventor Martin Brolin is caught in Tsunamipants. Martin engages the extreme weather conditions that are associated with future climate changes and tries to engineer his way out-off danger. In his work Mr. Brolin suffers from lack of expertise, lack of budged, oversized ambition and being over-all mediocre. These are common human traits that run beneath the surface of positive social change. To be able to construct anything realistically and therefor longlasting, I suggest we start by acknowledging that there is nothing inherently wrong with being mediocre. I realise that this goes against giant forces in popular culture, but Martin is deliberately portrayed as a mediocre inventor, although I only later became fully conscious of why I was doing this.

In progress: http://libarynth.org/research_report_theun_karelse

PhoEf – Photons and the electric kiss

maja — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:11:18 +0000

Start: 2008-05-30 13:30 Canada/Central

End: 2008-05-30 17:30 Canada/Central

PhoEf is a research project led by Bart Vandeput, exploring the essence, use and abuse of the photovoltaic effect - the conversion of light into electrical energy - within the realms of science, industry, technology and the arts.

As photovoltaics illustrate the interwovenness of matter and mankind, with the elements and the cosmos, it promises to trigger a deeper understanding of the qualities, origins and movements of light. Of the Sun. PhoEf provides both sky and earthbound information, sometimes structured alongside linear vertical paths, only to make an abrupt stop. Finding junctions between intuitive text and the flowing of new (inter)connections in an attempt to reach, inspire and connect researchers, developers and artists.

As light is the primary source of energy in photovoltaics, these technologies are subject to the schizophrenia of the photon’s behavior as both a wave and particle, their multiplicities; healthy to dangerous, subtle to aggressive, absent to abundant and from invisible to tangible. Might it lead to just enough energy for an electric kiss, or to the rise of one of the Buddhas, perhaps even to the deepening of our understanding of electricity?

http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2008/?page_id=208