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
- Rooted Hauntology Lab
- Voice of Nature: THE TRIAL
- Art in the Kitchen
- Open Sauces
- groWorld
- Future Fabulators
- Marine CoLABoration
- Doing Nothing
- Resilients
- Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives (PARN)
- Transgenerational learning encounters
- Advice Centre
- Germination X
- Residencies
- Borrowed Scenery
- Luminous Green
- Research Gatherings
- Integrative Process Facilitation
- Workshops
- Arboreal Identity
- LIREC
- Splinterfields Workshops
- .x-med-k.
- gRig
- TRG
- txOom
- TGarden
- Bitesize Lectures
- lyt_A
- f0amfr0th
- Translucent Futures
- Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures
- Library Salons
Events
- Resilients: The Flotilla
- FO[am]tones (aka FOtones special edition)
- Krachtige natuur, unieke mens exhibition
- Europalia: Ancestors & Rituals
- Kunst in de Keuken 2018
- Workshop voor NMEDO cursus Helix
- Research Gathering Spring 2018
- Analoog naar Digitaal
- Food and Farmtruck
- Drawn on Sound
- LGRU Live
- Swamp gathering
- Reading & Research Group II - Fluid Fundaments - Working with ghosts
- Long Now Lab - Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
- The art of organising hope - workshop art & activism
- Voice of Nature: The Trial - Mid-creation showing
- The Art of Futuring
- Through Art We Care
- Kunst in de Keuken 2019
- RESHAPE: Lublin Forum
Blog posts
Publications
- Transient Patchiness: The Slippery Territories of groWorld
- Human-Scale Systems in Responsive Environments
- Formalising Operational Adaptive Methodologies, or Growing Stories within Stories
- TRG: On Transient Realities and Their Generators
- .x-med-a.
- Open-Ended Processes, Open Space Technologies and Open Laboratories
- Performing Publicly in Responsive Space
- Digital Art and the Glitch
- From Representation to Performance
- In human format
- [tk's:um]
- PHOEF – The Undisclosed Poesis of the Photovoltaic Effect
- Open Sauces
- Borrowed Scenery: Cultivating an Alternate Reality
- Words which Matter to People
- Exploring and Designing our Future Robot Companions
- Resilients Handbook
- Luminous Green
- GroWorld: Experiments in vegetal culture
- PARN: Physical and Alternate Reality Narratives
- Borrowed Scenery short film
- Futurish
- A Futurist's Fieldguide
- Thriving in Uncertainty
- Enacting Futures in Postnormal Times
- stillness
- A Lab Approach for Marine CoLABoration
- FoAM has left the building...