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-===== Updates from FoAM bxl team members =====
+==== Updates from FoAM bxl 201709 ====
+=== Maja & Nik ===
+Our summer was filled with wrapping up the previous phase of FoAM bxl, including moving out from the Koolmijnenkaai studio, sale of valuables, distilling the archive and setting up the new library, administrative closure of various contracts and official changes to the governance structure of FoAM vzw. To close the 'summer of moving out' in a meaningful way, Maja wrote the article (with Nik’s editorial and pictorial help) [[https://medium.com/@foam/foam-has-left-the-building-61ac4994d97f|FoAM has left the building]].
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+Since the end of August we’re primarily focused on developing FoAM Earth, the new nomadic FoAM studio with its legal entity based in Estonia. Aside from all the practical details of starting a new company (setting up the financial management tools, bank-accounts, liability insurance, etc.), we are beginning to delve into our 'triangle' research (which is currently called ∆[∆], but doesn’t have a pronounceable name yet). We’re currently working on framing the global research on the interstices between uncertainty, experience and panpsychism and a series of its trans-local instantiations. We're reading (e.g. Human Kind by Morton, Process and Reality by Whitehead, Reclaiming Animism by Stengers, Romantic machine by Tresch, etc.) and writing, conducting speculative thought experiments and enjoying the fact that there is no externally imposed deadline for this work (definitely a new beginning!)
+For now, there are a few concrete things linked with the ∆[∆] research on our horizon:
+  * late September - formulation of our contribution to "Spectres in Change", a research residency in collaboration with the CAA collective and the Archipelago research institute in Finland: [[https://libarynth.org/spectres_in_change|notes]], [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/sets/72157683096135201|photos]]
+  * 04-07 October - Parables and meditation retreat on stories and practices of diverse spiritual journeys, in Tenerife in the first week of October (it’s a private retreat so there is nothing about it online), in collaboration with Julianne Lee of https://www.arsvitaecollection.com/
+  * 7-10 November - Anticipation conference in London where I’m giving a closing keynote speech. I’m designing it together with Nik as an audio-visual lecture-performance called "In anticipation of things already present": https://fo.am/anticipation-conference/
+  * 22 November - 6 December - Dust & Shadow fieldwork in Phoenix and the deserts of the south-west USA. Continuation of our work with the Arizona State University: [[https://libarynth.org/dust_and_shadow|notes]] and [[https://medium.com/@foam/dust-and-shadow-field-notes-1-48e94d02540b|fieldnotes]].
+  * In 2018 a few other instantiations of the research might emerge - in Croatia,  Australia, Japan and Iceland, as well as a possible 'romantic machines' workshop(s) (aka 'engineer cracking') in collaboration with Michka.
+In addition to the ∆[∆] research at FoAM Earth, we are also engaged in collaborating with other FoAM studios and developing the FoAM network as a whole:
+  * we became participants in the Feral Business Network designed by Kate Rich to look at business/economic practices from the perspective of experimental arts, with FoAM being one of its case studies. Funding proposal submitted in September 2017
+  * we worked with Greta and Jo of the budding FoAM Malta on 'Amber Spark', a training hub for artists and other creatives, where we might design and host a few training programmes (e.g. The Lab Approach, Hosting Craft, International Finance, Futurecrafting…). Funding proposal submitted in September 2017
+  * We’re going on a research visit to FoAM Kernow in the beginning of November to look at possible collaborations from 2018 onward (incl. possibly a new version of Tasting Tomorrow or some other food-related adventure)
+  * Maja is working with Barbara, Rasa, Stevie of FoAM bxl to design the [[https://fo.am/opening-europalia/|opening ceremony]] for the Europalia Indonesia exhibition "Ancestors & Rituals" on the 10th of October
+  * Nik, Stevie and Maja are forming "gloam" (old english for dusk, twilight…), an AV band embracing our 'fluffy gothic' aesthetics - making sound (and possibly light and imagery) on the liminal edges of perception, in praise of shadows, etc.
+  * Nik is working on a new [[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22farmersmanual%22|farmersmanual]] album (release date unknown)
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   *touring with Eisa her previous piece “The Princess” (save the dates in Brussels 6th and 7th of October!!!)
   *residency with performing artist Nelle Hens to help her research and develop one to one dance performance under the working title “Ont-moet”
   *opening ritual of Europalia on the 10th of October in collaboration with Barbara, Maja and Stevie
   *participating in the working group of Global Lithuania organised by the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs to re-think, re-invent and create a new vision for Lithuanian communities across the world.
   *together with Barbara guiding a few workshops on the daily mini rituals for kids in the frame work of Europalia