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| ==== Winter Newsletter 2013 draft ==== | ==== Winter Newsletter 2013 ==== |
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| While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere descends into wintry hibernation, it's time look back on FoAM's bustling activities over the last months as well as look forward to what the new year brings. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation). Some things are simmering down, more is bubbling up, and there's much that is quite new to all of us. At FoAM Brussels we continue to deepen and broaden our investigations in food and speculative culture. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts, thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a guided tour of the highlights. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! | While we contemplate slowing down and revaluing silence as the northern hemisphere descends into wintry hibernation, it's time look back on FoAM's bustling activities over the last months as well as look forward to what the new year brings. Travels, talks, workshops, celebrations, residencies (punctuated by copious EC reporting and accounting) -- there’s been much interesting ferment (and fermentation). Some things are simmering down, more is bubbling up, and there's much that is quite new to all of us. At FoAM Brussels we continue to deepen and broaden our investigations in food and speculative culture. FoAM Kernow has found its niche in blending science, technology and the arts, thereby benefiting both the scientific community and wider society. FoAM Amsterdam is touring the world with Sphaerae, and FoAM Nordica consolidates its work on Foodprints. So without further ado, here’s a guided tour of the highlights. We hope you’ll be inspired, and be in touch! |
| A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed the Australian artist [[http://www.sarahneville.com/about/|Sarah Neville]] and her five-month-old daughter Florence as [[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|family in residence]] at Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. The four of them spent an intensive week exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate change. Our collaboration with Sarah will continue at our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia during February 2014, and may involve Sarah's return to Europe to participate in one of Future Fabulators' events. Read more in [[http://lib.fo.am/research_report_parenzana|Sarah's research report]] and the [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes]]. | A few days afterwards, Maja and Nik welcomed the Australian artist [[http://www.sarahneville.com/about/|Sarah Neville]] and her five-month-old daughter Florence as [[http://fo.am/family-residency-sarah-neville/|family in residence]] at Castelletto Parenzana, FoAM's temporary residence in Istria, Croatia. The four of them spent an intensive week exploring the past, present and future of weather lore in a time of turbulent climate change. Our collaboration with Sarah will continue at our mobile studio in Adelaide, Australia during February 2014, and may involve Sarah's return to Europe to participate in one of Future Fabulators' events. Read more in [[http://lib.fo.am/research_report_parenzana|Sarah's research report]] and the [[http://lib.fo.am/parenzana_residency_notes|Parenzana residency notes]]. |
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| === Live coding and citizen science === | === Live coding and citizen science === |
| Intercontinental exchanges involving FoAM Brussels focused this autumn on the [[http://euroaxaca.org/|Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures]], in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC: The Homecoming]], where we celebrated the project's closure. [[http://nadine.be/|nadine]] and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting under the gentle co-ordinating hand of [[http://performingpictures.se/|Performing Pictures]] from Sweden. Designed and produced by [[http://apiary.be/|Christina Stadlbauer]], Loes Jacobs, [[http://www.bartaku.net/|Bart Vandeput]], Pacome Beru and others, it was an opportunity for widely dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest insights and some of the more tangible results of project, such as Bart and Christina's agave-inspired artworks developed with the glass artist [[http://www.xaquixe.com/glass/christian-thornton.php|Christian Thornton]]. We saw old friends like [[http://dougald.co.uk/|Dougald Hine]], Geska and Robert Brecevic, as well as a few of the other project partners for the first time. Aside from the exhibition, which displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald's movie //Memories of Development,// which featured him and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Esteva|Gustavo Esteva]] in conversation. | Intercontinental exchanges involving FoAM Brussels focused this autumn on the [[http://euroaxaca.org/|Euroaxacan Initiative of Transformative Cultures]], in which European and Mexican artists spent two years working in urban and rural areas of Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as in Belgium, Sweden and the UK, combining traditional crafts with new technologies. The early beginnings of this project were seeded at a FoAM workshop in 2009, and this October the project 'came home' to Brussels for [[http://fo.am/eitc-wrapup/|Fiesta del EITC: The Homecoming]], where we celebrated the project's closure. [[http://nadine.be/|nadine]] and FoAM hosted the event and the subsequent consortium meeting under the gentle co-ordinating hand of [[http://performingpictures.se/|Performing Pictures]] from Sweden. Designed and produced by [[http://apiary.be/|Christina Stadlbauer]], Loes Jacobs, [[http://www.bartaku.net/|Bart Vandeput]], Pacome Beru and others, it was an opportunity for widely dispersed collaborators to reunite and harvest insights and some of the more tangible results of project, such as Bart and Christina's agave-inspired artworks developed with the glass artist [[http://www.xaquixe.com/glass/christian-thornton.php|Christian Thornton]]. We saw old friends like [[http://dougald.co.uk/|Dougald Hine]], Geska and Robert Brecevic, as well as a few of the other project partners for the first time. Aside from the exhibition, which displayed several of the multidisciplinary artworks emerging from the project, the event featured presentations by participating artists and a screening of Dougald's movie //Memories of Development,// which featured him and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Esteva|Gustavo Esteva]] in conversation. |
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| Leading up to the EITC closing event, two Mexican artists -- Daniela Porras and Luis Canseco, together with their child Dante -- spent a month at FoAM as [[http://fo.am/family-residency-porras-and-canseco/|family in residence]], working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand-painted coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about her experiences in Belgium and Oaxaca. As they were departing with teary eyes, they made us promise to come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home… | Leading up to the EITC closing event, two Mexican artists -- Daniela Porras and Luis Canseco, together with their child Dante -- spent a month at FoAM as [[http://fo.am/family-residency-porras-and-canseco/|family in residence]], working with elements of Oaxacan and European culture to create their playful pieces for the exhibition. Luis shared an old machete -- a family heirloom -- to create a piece of participatory 'action drawing', while Daniela hand-painted coasters as a memory game of things that surprised, delighted and puzzled her about her experiences in Belgium and Oaxaca. As they were departing with teary eyes, they made us promise to come to Oaxaca after the project ends, and maybe even set up a FoAM studio in their home… |
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| === Hosting and sharing === | === Hosting and sharing === |
| One of the pillars of our work at FoAM Brussels is the facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists -- the transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our [[http://fo.am/services/|services]] to the cultural sector and beyond. In the spirit of sharing resources, skills and knowledge, we keep a library, offer coaching and mentoring, host residencies and much more. A new service that we started in June 2013 is [[http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft|Hosting Craft]], a series of tutorials where we train a group of cultural workers in facilitating co-creation and group processes, using techniques gleaned from other sectors and developed ourselves in FoAM's workshops, masterclasses and retreats. We're currently experimenting with the format of the tutorials, and might open them up to wider groups in coming years. | One of the pillars of our work at FoAM Brussels is the facilitation and support of a wider community of generalists -- the transdisciplinary and speculative cultural proletariat. We call this work our [[http://fo.am/services/|services]] to the cultural sector and beyond. In the spirit of sharing resources, skills and knowledge, we keep a library, offer coaching and mentoring, host residencies and much more. A new service that we started in June 2013 is [[http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft|Hosting Craft]], a series of tutorials where we train a group of cultural workers in facilitating co-creation and group processes, using techniques gleaned from other sectors and developed ourselves in FoAM's workshops, masterclasses and retreats. We're currently experimenting with the format of the tutorials, and might open them up to wider groups in coming years. |
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| We're delighted to let you know that the [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|digital catalogue of our physical library]] is now online. Alkan has been cataloguing the publications and sorting them on the shelves, so it is now much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, giving not just our audiences but also ourselves a chance to enjoy reading and sharing our love of books and the written word. If you're interested to peruse the library, email us at bxl@fo.am for an appointment. | We're delighted to let you know that the [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|digital catalogue of our physical library]] is now online. Alkan has been cataloguing the publications and sorting them on the shelves, so it is now much easier to find what you're looking for in our humble but exciting collection of more than thousand books, magazines, grey literature and other ephemera informing and emerging from FoAM's activities. From 2014 we're planning to hold Open Library Days and Salons, giving not just our audiences but also ourselves a chance to enjoy reading and sharing our love of books and the written word. If you're interested to peruse the library, email us at bxl@fo.am for an appointment. |
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| Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: [[http://fo.am/doing-nothing|Doing Nothing]]. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector (though also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing/|Libarynth page]]. | Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we are working hard on a new field of study at FoAM: [[http://fo.am/doing-nothing|Doing Nothing]]. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector (though also the wider society of Europe and beyond), FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM itself, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations that have begun to amass on the project's dedicated [[http://lib.fo.am/doing_nothing/|Libarynth page]]. |
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| To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun and games. But above all else we wish you plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. Looking forward to seeing you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… | To conclude this newsletter, we'd like to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and a beautiful 2014, with much space for speculation, experimentation, good food, fun and games. But above all else we wish you plentiful time to do nothing and enjoy the abundance of life, whatever it may bring. Looking forward to seeing you on the other side of the holidays, in person or online… |
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| This newsletter is supported by the Flemish Authorities and the Culture 2007–2013 Programme of the European Commission. | |