Maxime Le Calvé

We joined them to design shape-shifting shading devices, protocols for sensing emotional territories, outer heart fountain flows, plant ritual accessories for extra-planetary life, mycelium spatial collaborations, and garden-based divinatory systems.

Together, we go through the space that has now become strangely familiar, handling ideas that we have been already stretching in many directions.

Critically referencing classic anatomy lessons—like that of Doctor Tulp, portrayed by Rembrandt in 1632 — »Dissect« is an updated theatre for the analysis and discussion of contemporary works of art and design in the presence of the works.

“The idea of the exhibition project was to accompany the interdisciplinary research process on African materials and by doing so activate a space of reflection for each discipline to go beyond its normal procedures.”

A big step into our experimental exhibition-as-research: the public opening, which unrolled as a final sprint, a hectic evening, and a sudden relief.

How we brought the visitor into a tinkered techno fantasy which brings into collision the technoscience worlds of physics and medicine.

What is an exhibition-as-research? The multifarious experimentations to relate space to objects-in-process is part of what “curation” meant in the first place.

That week at Matters of Activity, we switched methods to a more interventionist style: constituting a « fermentation club » is a participatory and collaborative way to investigate on the relation between human and microbiome.

Amid this fascinating but somewhat nebulous discourse, the idea of a collaboration between Matters of Activity and Driving the Human emerged. It was a glimmer of balance in a sea of ideas; a potential solution to the missing piece of this intricate puzzle.

In the labyrinthine heart of the Berlin State Library, we gathered under the guidance of Horst Bredekamp for a special session of our Second Breakfast bi-weekly seminar, dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of energy.

Entering the Central Laboratory that day, participants were greeted with balloons to inflate with their breath and a 285-hertz “Theta” sound bath, which they were invited to explore haptically through to the red latex bubbles.

How can we use 3D sketching to further develop neuroanatomical education, in particular to teach spatial understanding of anatomical landmarks and neurosurgical approaches?

We explored how to attend to more-than-human collectivities at different scales, from the built environment to cellular activity, the workshop was designed as an inventive anthropological design inquiry within the heavily mediated sense worlds of bio-design, HCI, and Medicine.