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Another answer, smaller and stranger: "Edible Alchemy", Collet's work with Bartaku on flax, aronia and edible photovoltaics; a tendril a dedicated post would have severed – pigment, current, and taste meeting, for a moment, on someone's tongue.
https://anarchive.fo.am/green/edible_alchemy/
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Brussels, 2005: Joanna Berzowska asks a room of people trying to work out what these new, active materials are actually for: "Who are the actors, what is the stage, where does the activity happen?" She speaks of electroluminescent wires and soft circuits, not fungus, but her questions hold. Who initiates the change? Neither of these texts supplies a single answer. Instead, they keep answering: different answers, different timescales – split-second responses, then nine years of cactus fur.
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Tilt the vessel and the roots redirect. Modulate the light, the pattern changes. The technique is simple; what grows from it is anything but.
Carole Collet spent over a decade learning to work at the pace of a cactus, aerial roots, mycelium – treating garden and grow-tank as studio, plant and fungus as collaborators. "Designing (for and with) Living Systems" gathers fifteen years of this inquiry: botanical studies, speculative provocations, slow-manufactured objects. Learning the plant's terms, then bending them.
https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/designing_living_systems/
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Anarchival talk with Florian Cramer
21th May, 19:00–21:30, @roodkapje_rotterdam | Free entrance 💜
What is the difference between a hoarder and an archivist?
Eccentric (an-) archives: histories of experimental, fantastic, and anarchic archives.In this second anarchival talk we will hear from researcher & DIYer Florian Cramer.
During this talk we approach the concept of the anarchive from the viewpoint of artistic practice and collection. Archives are often seen as institutional, preserving, and focused on canonical heritage. Yet archives can also be eccentric, chaotic, and anarchic collections shaped by obsession and idiosyncratic systems.
Think of record collections, eccentric libraries, a hoarder’s apartment, or collections of subcultural production. What is the difference between a personal composition of objects, a collection, or an archive?📍Keileweg 10a
💜Free entrance
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Cut a Möbius strip down the middle. Expecting two pieces, you get one, longer, with twice as many twists. The more you try to separate knowing from making – theory from practice, template from floor – the more surface there is to walk.
#anarchive #crafting #moebiusstrip #mathematics #appliedmathematics #reimaginingtechnology #patterns
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July 2024. A terrace in Istria. Tiles half-laid, some already fixed, a template that doesn't match the floor, an unanswered voice call from Brussels. 480 limestone pieces, CNC-cut from a shape proven mathematically a few months before. One constraint: no tile can be flipped.
Three months, a long hot summer to find out if the pattern held.
https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/spectres/
#aperiodic #tiling #spectre #anarchive #aperiodicmonotile #mathematics #appliedmathematics #reimaginingtechnology #patterns -
📖 @paulaalbuquerque is the author of the chapter ‘Glitching Colonial Film Archives Digital File Manipulation and Ecological Analogue Processing as Decolonial Anarchival Strategies,’ included in the book 'Slow Technology Reader', edited by Carolyn F. Strauss.
👉 https://valiz.nl/en/publications/slow-technology-reader
#Histodons #FilmArchives #Anarchive #Colonialism #ColonialFilms #Cinema #Arquivos #Colonialism #FilmStudies
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SMILE: SELL YOUR ARCHIVE
issue of the international magazine of multiple origins published by Pete Horobin, Dundee, Scotland, 1987scanned and online for the first time:
https://archive.org/details/smile-sell-your-archive/This zine from 1987 addresses an urgent issue that has only become more pressing in the meantime: How to preserve personal and non-institutional collections of DIY/small press experimental publications, zines, mail art, and similar materials?
Open letter by Pete Horobin, with replies by Robin Crozier, Simon Anderson, Robin Klassnik, John Furnival, Susan Young, Michael Leigh & Hazel Jones, Mark Pawson, Stewart Home, Stefan Szczelkun, Art Naphro, Keith Bates, Ben Allen, DJ at FOMT, Tony Lowes, David Jarvis, Eric Finlay, Barry Edgar Pilcher, Michael Scott & subsequent replies by Pete Horobin.
#mailart #smallpress #zines #anarchive #archives #neoism #smilemagazine
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For the season when boundaries thin—
Organic Abstraction: a deconstructed photobook, an exhibition-in-a-box. Loose hand-cut cahiers in a slipcase. Images printed with iridescent ink, on contrasting paper textures, translucent sheets veiling the threshold between text and image.
Pages that stand upright, creating spatial interruptions. Images that sprawl across tables, shelves, altars – you choose the arrangements, the juxtapositions. The anarchiving continues in your hands.
From two decades of walking and watching, attending to lifeworlds on scales other than our own. Moss and oil slicks. Root networks, wave patterns, desert stone – organic forms photographed so intimately that micro and macro collapse.
Afterimages – not quite memory, not quite now. Double exposures where pasts and futures fold into unstable presents. Matter that looks back. Images that refuse to stay in their own time.
Continents meet in palm-sized cahiers. Conceived in late 2020 as a gift for those confined indoors by illness, weather, conflict.
https://fo.am/publications/organic-abstraction/
Part of FoAM's #Anarchive – experimental publishing as practice of care.
By Rasa Alksnytė, Nik Gaffney, and Maja Kuzmanović, introduced by Branka Benčić.
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What if weaving had kept its memory for weather and weight? What if code was written live? Electronics exposed?
Developed through studio visits with @thentrythis in Sheffield and Cornwall last autumn, three new texts from FoAM's Anarchive trace technology's minor paths and forgotten possibilities.
#anarchive #algorithms #pattern #reimaginingtechnology #weaving #coding #livecoding #tidalcycles #organisedatoms #jacquard #counterfactualcomputing -
A question about the best way to ship a printing/zine archive [8 moving boxes weighing a total of 95 kilograms] from Rotterdam to Dundee/Scotland, to the crowd wisdom here.
Commercial shipping seems to cost about 2000 EUR… Does anyone know of cheaper alternatives? Could someone transport it privately against reimbursement?- This concerns my own archive of materials from 1980s/1990s DIY cultural networks around Neoism, consisting mostly of zines, and pamphlets. I always wanted it to be public, but considered art institutions unsuitable due to restricted access to their archives, Neoism's distance to the art system, and vice versa the little art curatorial value and appreciation of such subcultural materials.
At the University of Dundee, efforts to preserve Pete Horobin’s (thematically and interpersonally related, archiving-as-daily-art-practice) Attic Archive led me to donate my archive there, trusting librarians for their understanding of cultural commons and alternatives to commercial regimes.
Longer story here: https://pod.thing.org/posts/2552034
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An experiment in slow publishing, 'Wabi-sabi: Weathering Transience' has gradually emerged – page by page, cluster by cluster. This reader from FoAM's Anarchive dwells with the transient, incomplete, and inconspicuous. It invites you to wander, to watch and wait, noticing and letting things unfold. Exploring time in its many guises, it dives into the liminality of transitions. It seeks out places of enchantment and seclusion, fostering reflection on care, repair and the often neglected art of bringing things to an end. 🍂
https://anarchive.fo.am/wabisabi/
Collated by Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney, Justin Pickard and Theun Karelse, with new and 'anarchived' contributions by Alkan Chipperfield, Anna Maria Orrù, Barbara Raes, Cat Jones, Cocky Eek, Francesca da Rimini, Ingrid Vranken, Jo Vernaillen, Martin Howse, Paul Prudence, Rachid Tahri, Rasa Alksnyte, Stephen Barrass, Stevie Wishart, Sarah Neville and Timothy Morton.
#anarchive #wabisabi #time #shadow #stillness #transition #fallowing #tangping #noticing #meditation #attention #geomancy #ritual #bodyweather #fungi #magic #panpsychism #myths #refugia #sanctuary #isolation #connection #quiet #care #illness #burnout #repair #death #regeneration -
Final Grumblings. The inevitable fade out.
#overlooked #unfinished #unassuming #anarchive #wabisabi
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Conscious Closure. Or how to intentionally dissolve a studio.
#consciousclosure #ending #letgo #anarchive #wabisabi
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Death and Gardening. The individual disintegrating into the many.
#carcassecology #death #trees #gardening #whalefall #anarchive #wabisabi
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Repair! On the restoration and revitalisation of damaged objects, systems, or structures.
#repair #damage #restoration #anarchive #wabisabi
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Beyond the Spoken. Notes from a year in transience.
#transiency #rituals #loss #transition #anarchive #wabisabi
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Rituales para mi corazón. Rituals for my heart.
#heart #rituals #bedtimestories #anarchive #wabisabi
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Making Dis-ease Matter. Transforming the effects of chemotherapy into a Tibetan singing bowl.
#pain #chemotherapy #3D #sound #sonification #anarchive #wabisabi
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To care, with care, for care. Allow yourself to be touched.
#care #artandcare #time #anarchive #wabisabi
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Being with. Helping cope, without intervening.
#care #anthropocene #anarchive #wabisabi
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The Infinite Table, an endless combinatorial collage, is FoAM's reworking of the 19th century myriorama.
Aspiring to unconditional hospitality, the Infinite Table is inhabited by unexpected guests: humans, plants, animals, robots, mysterious foods, strange objects, and otherworldly characters. Their imperfect connections are deliberate, leaving gaps to be filled with stories. The disjointed scenes and impossible perspectives provide endless storytelling possibilities, for young and old alike.
https://fo.am/activities/the-infinite-table/
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Is it possible to smell the meaning of a publication? What if the content of a book could be extracted and blended into a perfume?
A few snapshots from the making of 'Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails' – the most fragrant fascicle in FoAM's Anarchive, where a profusion of words is distilled into evanescent fragrances.
https://fo.am/scent-imprints-mnemonic-trails/
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Scent Imprints & Mnemonic Trails is a set of six fragrances in a hardcover box, with an accompanying booklet and origami diffuser.
Together with the virtuoso scent artist Maki Ueda, we distilled the essence of the Anarchive into a hand-crafted olfactory art object.
Now available in the FoAM Shop.
https://shop.fo.am/product/scent-imprints-mnemonic-trails/
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Walk with Me. Why you must exchange your feet with your hands.
#handstand #antifragile #postman #movement #exercising #anarchive #wabisabi
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Honing our skills in the Crafts of Noticing, we've collated immersive, multisensory practices for being-in-the-world. Tried and tested in various situations and surroundings by FoAM & friends across multiple timezones.
#noticing #craft #embodied #attention #ecology #anarchive #wabisabi
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Wherever you are at the moment, whenever you are here. A few approaches to the non-linear, from FoAM's #anarchive.
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To mark the transition into the second half of the solar year, we tend to things transient, unfinished, and overlooked. Some experiments and impressions of being with the world-at-large, foreshadowing the 'wabi sabi' reader from the @FoAM Anarchive.
An invitation to wander, to watch and wait, noticing and letting things unfold. 🍂
#anarchive #wabisabi #transience #noticing #overlooked #unfinished #侘び寂び
[Caligraphy by Maki Ueda] -
"In the gloaming, amidst liquid shadows, the liminal shimmers." 🌌 A shimmering mid-year sonic transit with Lowdjo's latest mix for FoAM's Anarchive.
https://fo.am/blog/2023/06/30/in-the-gloaming/
#midyear #transition #reset #darkambient #wabisabi #anarchive