Speculative Life BioLab

Écotones — October 14th – 29th, 2022

A series of artistic interventions in Champ des Possibles by Brice Ammar-Khodja and Philippe Vandal

Hexagram x ELEKTRA – MATERIA : Labo Public de création de savoirs numériques — Sept 8 – 10

This event will bring together, over three consecutive days, local and international artists, creators, scientists, researchers and professionals from the artistic and cultural sectors. Invited guests and visitors, along with a team of mediators, will also participate in this arena of creation and knowledge sharing, at the intersections of art, design, science, and multiple forms of knowledge and forms of knowing

[re]capture in residence at Perte de Signal

Exploring the concept of ‘filtration’ using biomaterials, plants, and electronic strategies, [re]capture is a dialogue between in situ atmospheric data capture devices and gallery installation. With air toxicity a growing issue, this ongoing project seeks to give shape to the microscopic invisibility and the macroscopic dimension of air pollution.

[Vernissage] jacqueline beaumont at Projet Casa: Sonnet à la science. Ode à la magie.

Vernissage July 29th 2022, 5pm. Exhibition runs July 29th – September 4th

[Vernissage] jacqueline beaumont & Philippe Vandal at Eastern Bloc for In the Middle, a Chimera

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…

[Exhibition] Vanessa Mardirossian at In the Middle, a Chimera

‘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

_SPIRATION — Paris | May 17th – 20th

The biolab is off to Paris to participate in an international research-creation workshop on membranes and air activity

Biolab at In the Middle, a Chimera — May 5th – 18th

Brice Ammar Khodja, jacqueline beaumont, Vanessa Mardirossian, and Philippe Vandal will be presenting work at the Milieux Institute End-of-Year Exhibition and Symposium.

Fossilation: Nurturing Slow Expectations

The project’s design folio is out today at Riverside Architectural Press.

The Waste Cycle of Planetary Vision Infrastructures — April 22nd from 1:30-4pm

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….

Inertia: Speculative Fossil — April 22 – June 13

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.

Cooking and Culturing Colour Part IV

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…