FoAM - Brussels
Born as the Art & Science department of Starlab in 2000, FoAM became and independent association in Brussels in 2001. Its shape, size and focus are as dynamic as the people involved. What began as a mixed reality lab transformed by mid 2000s into a transdisciplinary arts laboratory (multidisciplinaire kunstenwerkplaats). After a decade of working with hundreds of artists and generalists in a beautiful building on the Kanal, it was time for FoAM Brussels to transform again. Since 2017 we became a loose collective without fixed premises, focusing on the connections between art and nature, art and care.
From 2018 the core team of FoAM Brussels are Rasa Alksnyte and Ingrid Vranken.
Activities
- Advice Centre
- Arboreal Identity
- Art in the Kitchen
- Bitesize Lectures
- Borrowed Scenery
- Doing Nothing
- Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures
- f0amfr0th
- Future Fabulators
- Germination X
- gRig
- groWorld
- Integrative Process Facilitation
- Library Salons
- LIREC
- Luminous Green
- lyt_A
- Marine CoLABoration
- Open Sauces
- Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)
- Research Gatherings
- Residencies
- Resilients
- Rooted Hauntology Lab
- Splinterfields Workshops
- TGarden
- Transgenerational learning encounters
- Translucent Futures
- TRG
- txOom
- Voice of Nature: THE TRIAL
- Workshops
- .x-med-k.
Events
- Analoog naar Digitaal
- Drawn on Sound
- Edible Perfume
- Europalia: Ancestors & Rituals
- FO[am]tones (aka FOtones special edition)
- Food and Farmtruck
- Krachtige natuur, unieke mens exhibition
- Kunst in de Keuken 2018
- Kunst in de Keuken 2019
- LGRU Live
- Long Now Lab - Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
- Performance Philosophy Biennal
- Reading & Research Group II - Fluid Fundaments - Working with ghosts
- Research Gathering Spring 2018
- RESHAPE: Lublin Forum
- Resilients: The Flotilla
- Rooted Hauntology Lab / Séance #1
- Swamp gathering
- The Art of Futuring
- The art of organising hope - workshop art & activism
- The Wild Brunch: Beyond Brunch
- Through Art We Care
- Voice of Nature: The Trial - Mid-creation showing
- Workshop voor NMEDO cursus Helix
Blog posts
Publications
- A Futurist's Fieldguide
- A Lab Approach for Marine CoLABoration
- Borrowed Scenery: Cultivating an Alternate Reality
- Borrowed Scenery short film
- Digital Art and the Glitch
- Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times
- Exploring and Designing our Future Robot Companions
- FoAM has left the building...
- Formalising Operational Adaptive Methodologies, or Growing Stories within Stories
- From Representation to Performance
- Futurish
- GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture
- Human-Scale Systems in Responsive Environments
- In human format
- Luminous Green
- Open-Ended Processes, Open Space Technologies and Open Laboratories
- Open Sauces
- PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives
- Performing Publicly in Responsive Space
- PHOEF – The Undisclosed Poesis of the Photovoltaic Effect
- Resilients Handbook
- stillness
- Thriving in Uncertainty
- [tk's:um]
- Transient Patchiness: The Slippery Territories of groWorld
- TRG: On Transient Realities and Their Generators
- Words which Matter to People
- .x-med-a.