# MemóriasCOVID-19

The online platform # MemóriasCOVID-19 will be presented and promoted by the teachers Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel and Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, focusing on the concept of the Platform itself and its curatorial processes.

Adriatic Garden
Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Gjino Sutic (HR)

Adriatic Garden nimmt die ZuschauerInnen mit auf eine Reise durch das Adriatische Meer.

SEAWEED SALON
Lichen Kelp, Jessie French

A two-part workshop series by the Seaweed Appreciation Society International that invites you on a field trip to another world - an alternate seaweed reality, where edible algae bioplastics are mixed up alongside refreshing seaweed cocktails. By speculating on a radically sustainable seaweed future, we will be asking if biomutualism can play a part in our everyday lives in the future. A radical sustainable seaweed intervention has never felt more urgent.

Morphing Matter is ?
Morphing Matter Lab (US)

Als physische Verkörperung der KI ist das Morphing-Material ein neues Konzept in Wissenschaft und Technik. Allerdings sind rein technologieorientierte Lösungen oft kurzsichtig, befangen und manchmal irreführend.

BODY / INSECT / MACHINE
Prue Lang, Mathieu Briand

BODY/ INSECT /MACHINE is a movement experiment between Prue Lang’s choreography, artist Mathieu Briand’s androids and a Phasmid (stick insect). The work explores the body/androids/artificial movement/intelligence on the one side and the body/human instinct/natural movement/nature on the other.

On the eve of uncertainty
Charlotte Jarvis (UK)

Der Ort für unsere Tour ist meinem 39 Wochen schwangeren Körper entnommen. Die Tour befasst sich mit dem Projekt In Posse, bei dem ich mit Wissenschaftlern zusammenarbeite, um den weltweit ersten ‘weiblichen’ Samen herzustellen. Sie reflektiert auch darüber, wie die Beobachtung der Wandel meines Körpers während des Jahres 2020 - dieses wandelbarste aller Jahre - eine einzigartig ‘queering experience’ war, die meine Perspektive auf meine Praxis, Politik, das Patriarchat und die Gesellschaft verändert hat.

FEMeeting Seeds

The seeds of our garden, the aromatic herbs and giant sequoias growing within FEMeeting the year throughout, are the members of our worldwide community. This part of our garden’s program includes video testimonies, images and sounds expressing the character and souls of some of the extraordinary women working today in art, science and technology.

A Journey into Ai Hasegawa's practice
Ai Hasegawa (JP)

In diesem Video spricht Ai Hasegawa mit MitarbeiterInnen, WissenschaftlerInnen und ExpertInnen über ihre Projekte rund um Wissenschaft, Sexualität, Leben, Politik und Institutionen. Sie bespricht unter anderem ihre Ansätze zu Human X Shark, (IM)POSSIBLE BABY, The Extreme Environment Love Hotel, Shared Baby, I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin.

FEM Books

FEMeeting 2020 Garden has its own reading corners where you can find more information about the conferences and other meetings. Check out the abstracts for a concise idea on the rich variety of topics researched by the participants of FEMeeting gatherings.

Without water: between life and death
Shashi Thutupalli , biologist

Biologist Shashi Thutupalli questions our understanding of life and death in his Confluence lecture. His lecture is based on his exhibit FrankenShrimp where dehydrated brine shrimp remain dormant until they are placed in water. Once in water, they begin their life processes. He speaks about how cells in living beings need to be in a liquid state to be active, highlighting the importance of water in life sustaining processes.

A trip to the island
Alessandra Burotto (CL) / Paula Lopez Wood (CL) /Víctor Mazón Gardoqui (ES/DE) / Alfredo Prieto (CL) / Gerd Sielfeld (CL) / Nicolas Spencer (CL/AT) / Terra Ignota

An artistic, geological, archaeological and historical research trip into the southernmost continental island in the world before Antarctic; Cape Horn.

New Frontiers in Water Science
Veena Srinivasan, water researcher

In her Confluence lecture, water researcher Veena Srinivasan calls for a new approach to science that is problem driven, interdisciplinary and grounded in real-world questions. She presents three examples to illustrate why we must consider anthropologic changes in this new approach. She addressed the case of disappearing surface water in the Upper Arkavathy watershed near Bengaluru, the impact of droughts on Chennai and questions whether tree planting is good or bad for streams.

Antibodies
FEMeeting WEB 2020

set of short videos and audio podcasts

The future crashes into the present
Karen Palmer (UK)

Als Erzählerin aus der Zukunft nimmt Karen Palmer die ZuschauerInnen mit auf eine Reise durch eine Reihe von Sendungen aus der Zukunft und warnt uns durch ihre immersiven Filmerlebnisse vor dem, was noch auf uns zukommen wird.

spaceEU Toolkit Launch

spaceEU is an EU project for space outreach and education activities. In order to make these activities available to a wide audience, we collected all our expertise in a toolkit. Find out about how to use it and discover how space becomes a source for inspiration

Sarah Petkus’s Noodle Feet visits the Pavilion of Knowledge

Sarah Petku’s Robot called Noodle Feet is visiting the Pavilion of Knowledge. Join and find out how the Pavilion of Knowledge looks like.

Pavilion of Knowledge: A Virtual Exhibition

Visit the virtual exhibition Pavilion of Knowledge and find out what our impressive space looks like.

A Utopian Post-Colonial Future – Victoria, Australia 2027
Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne (AU)

Can we imagine a utopia that creates a post-colonial social and political framework and overcomes the concept of land as commodity, inspired by indigenous concepts of relationship to country? Emerge yourself in VR to engage in a multitude of future scenarios that sketch out the potential to reflect on these questions.

Voices of Country
Dr. Rochus Urban Hinkel (AU); in collaboration with NExT Lab, Melissa Iraheta and Tony Yu (AU); Büro Achter April (DE); Dr. Hélène Frichot (AU)

This VR movie is set in the rural landscape of the Dja Dja Wurrung aboriginal tribe in southern Australia. The project tells stories of the land from different perspectives, allowing the audience to move through the site by engaging in a VR environment, with narrators telling different stories.

Video tour of the Marine Institute’s RV Celtic Explorer
Aerial/Sparks and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture (IE)

A ship tour for curious listeners.