Vernissage July 29th 2022, 5pm. Exhibition runs July 29th – September 4th
On Thursday, May 5th, Eastern Bloc hosted the vernissage for Milieux’s In the Middle, a Chimera. This opening party kicked off two weeks of exhibitions, workshops, and a symposium by Milieux members and affiliates in venues around the city. Biolab members jacqueline beaumont and Philippe Vandal were two of the featured artists at Eastern Block…
‘Residual Textile Dye Spectrum: A Colour Chart of Textile Fibres on Cotton Canvas (142 x 96 cm), 2022’ will be on display from May 5th-18th at Milieux
The biolab is off to Paris to participate in an international research-creation workshop on membranes and air activity
Brice Ammar Khodja, jacqueline beaumont, Vanessa Mardirossian, and Philippe Vandal will be presenting work at the Milieux Institute End-of-Year Exhibition and Symposium.
The project’s design folio is out today at Riverside Architectural Press.
Within the context of Earth Day, the Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (dir. Alice Jarry) invites the Biolab community to join us for an afternoon of demos and roundtable conversations entitled The Waste Cycle of Planetary Vision Infrastructures at the Planétarium de Montréal on Friday, April 22nd from 1:30-4pm….
A speculative work that crosses the disappearance of the Earth in the eye of the Voyager probes with the atmospheric and ecological situation in the east of Montreal.
It’s results day! It’s only been 48 hrs since our last workshop and our plates and fabric samples are already brimming with pigmented bacterial cultures. Our fourth workshop session takes us through the final steps of bacterial dyeing textiles, which involves printing using the stencils we prepared on Tuesday and getting all the samples ready…
In the third instalment of this workshop series, we were able to see how well our bacterial plates and liquid cultures grew over the week. We then harnessed the pigment-producing abilities of this bacterium to colour both un-dyed fabric samples as well as some of the food waste-dyed fabrics from the first session. At the…
This week, Vanessa facilitated the second instalment of the Cooking and Culturing Colour workshop series. We were able to see the results of the food waste dyeing we did last week and experimented with modifying the colour of the fabric using different acidic, basic, and iron solutions. We used everything from soda ash to lemon…
On March 15th, Vanessa Mardirossian facilitated Part I of the Cooking and Culturing Colour workshop series. She introduced participants to dyeing with food waste and showed us how to prepare protein and cellulose fibres (using different mordants and pre-treatments) for the dye baths. We prepared dyes using onion skins, avocado pits and peels, black beans,…
Speculative Life BioLab 