The Theater festival in deSingel (Antwerp) organized on the 11th of September a day of reflection on the subject of performing arts in Flanders. The day started with three statements, including this text from Barbara Raes, who recently resigned as artistic director of the Vooruit Arts Centre. This is an English translation of the text "Stralend opbranden en stenen stapelen".
Some photos from Shakti Lamba who is currently testing Symbai in the Chhattisgarh state in north eastern India.
Symbai is part of a project to study the evolution of sociality and culture in humans. Shakti collects detailed networks of knowledge, prestige and friendship in villages with contrasting cultural structures in rural India.
Rebecca Conroy visited the f0am library for a week in September to share stories from her Sydney based Librarium, as well as possible future exchange ideas around radical archiving and the different forms and functions of library spaces around the world. After reading an obscure passage from the latest book by Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato for the library salon, she presented a brief talk for the Library salon. The following ...
Barbara Raes op de reflectiedag voor de podiumkunsten: "Een burn-out ontstaat wanneer de kloof tussen je eigen diepe overtuigingen en de overlevingspatronen van je dagelijkse praktijk te groot geworden is. Eigenlijk daar waar drijfkracht en onmacht elkaar ontmoeten. Elk tijdperk kent zijn valstrikken, en uitgeput zijn is van alle tijden. Wat echter telt, is hoe we ermee omgaan. In die zin vertelt de ‘ziekte’ veel over het reilen en zeilen ...
As part of this year's Fascinate festival we took over the bar at Falmouth's Poly with visualisations of the camouflage pattern evolution process from the egglab game.
Het Nieuwe Instituut hosted a show on scarcity as an agent for design innovation. FoAM was invited to exhibit the free and open source smartphone foraging app Boskoi.