Hackteria's Empathetic Taxidermia Lab is a durational, collaborative and explorative experimentation on taxidermy with Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr, a co-founder of the Hackteria network. The aim of the lab is to investigate artistic practices and traditional craft with living/non-living media to reconnect us with our ecosystem and ourselves.
Taxidermy is the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals for display, study or just simply preservation. It has been around for centuries in various implementations from hobbyists' anthropomorhic representations of imagined human happiness, to contemporary artists.
Overview of Schedule
Ongoing 8-21- Sep: "Taxidermia Lab" - Join us at anytime to collaborate, 14-20h
Saturday 10. Sep: "Lab Inauguration & Apéro" - Come and join!
Tuesday, 13. Sep: "Bring your own Rat" - OpenTaxidermia Lab evening, 17-21h
Sat & Sun 17/18. Sep: "Next Gen Taxidermy 2.0 Kit Making Workshop", 14-18h
Wednesday, 21. Sep: "Bring your own Fish" - OpenTaxidermia Lab Final Reflection, 17-21h
Intensive Workshop "Next Gen Taxidermy 2.0 Kit Making"
Sat & Sun 17/18. Sep: "Next Gen Taxidermy 2.0 Kit Making Workshop", 14-18h
During this workshop we will look into more depth of the tools and materials used for taxidermia of various different species (and feces) with the goal to enable more people to get started within this interesting and sometimes empathetically conflicting topic. We will investigate different available instructions in print and online media and collaboratively develop a contemporary kit/instruction to be shared and communicated.
Presentation of Outcomes @ Pixelache Festival
On 24 September at Omenpuutalo
Mentor
Marc Dusseiller aka dusjagr is a nomadic researcher and workshopologist. He is part of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research and co-founder of SGMK and the Hackteria network. Before travelling the world for making DIY / DIWO laboratories for creative biological experimentation with living media, Marc entered the world of DIY electronics, designing printed circuit boards for synthesizers and organizing workshops and festivals mostly in Zürich. He also loves coconuts.
This experiment is not active.
There has been no activity towards this experiment during the past over 7 years. The experiment is assumed to be completed or abandoned.
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