Workshop | Interspecifics
40 EUR / 20 EUR
Registration open from 14-21 April, 2022 – please apply here: https://forms.gle/6bKRCZm2gUKKmcB2A

The workshop has a limited capacity, therefore selected participants will be communicated on 25 April to receive more information and finalize the registration. Interspecifics, in collaboration with Art Laboratory Berlin, are proud to present a gathering for the collective creation of speculative post-humanist scenarios and build stories together that may assist our transition from the Anthropocene to the transversal inclusivity of the Symbiocene. The workshop Almost Nonhuman (Berlin) by Interspecifics is the first event of the Hackers, Makers, Thinkers: Collective Experiments in Social Fermenting project. For further details on the exhibition project, please visit our website: https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/exhibitions/hackers-makers-thinkers-exh...

For this workshop, we have designed a hybrid design thinking strategy via a collection of narrative techniques, drawing from more-than-human theories, Speculative Fabulation, and Cyberpunk to help us reframe human-nature relationships through a non-anthropocentric envisioning of better futures. To see beyond human rationality, dissolve binary or oppositional categories that elevate ‘people’ above ‘nature’ and recognize the agencies, and dependencies, of a range of living and non-living non-human actors (Maller 2019).
We invite the Berlin community of visual artists, storytellers, independent researchers, and sci-fi and DIY bio enthusiasts, to participate in this two-day workshop on May 7th and 8th that will combine bio sampling, microscopic photography, storytelling, and generative image programming led by artist and researcher Maro Pebo, member of the Interspecifics collective (Leslie Garcia & Paloma Lopez will join virtually). The participants are expected to commit to the workshop on both days, which will be both in-person meeting.
The workshop has a limited capacity, therefore selected participants will be communicated on 25 April to receive more information and finalize the registration.

Special thanks to The German Capital City Fund (HKF) and the Berlin Senate Dept. for Culture and Europe