Microbial Futures Lab: Future Medicine workshop w/ Eva Bubla

What do a handful of soil, the forest, city greens, fresh air, or some invisible creatures have to do with the health of our bodies? 

We invite you to spend the November evening at Šopa gallery for a creative workshop, which will be guided by Hungarian artist Eva Bubla.

Microbial Futures Lab is a traveling laboratory, a constantly expanding collection of future medicines, treatments, rites and narratives reflecting on the well-being of human and more-than-human lifeforms. All bodies are interconnected microbial ecosystems, living and breathing habitats of tiny organisms: bodies of cities, bodies of waters, air, soil, and our own human bodies are inseparable.

How can we imagine the medicines of the future in a world where the state of our environment and our present relationship with it is compromised? What speculative visions of the future, old-new rites and treatments can we imagine if we look at the concept of health in a holistic way, if we understand it as the mutual well-being of symbiotically living human and more-than-human lifeforms?

During the workshop, the Lab showcases the key elements of its collection (eg. encapsulated landscapes, designated breathing zones, freshwater and urban body treatments), it’s more-than-human patients and stories related to them, and invites the public to speculate together about the future of Kosice by designing new remedies for the various life forms that inhabit it. 

The project is rooted in the collaboration with the researchers of the Microbial Childhood Collaboratory (MCC) at Tampere University, Finland. 

You can register for the workshop using the online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSff7Kd0pQOE_hW6CGlWIQSM3titzG-V727i8KYOFu2bUJNIsQ/viewform?usp=pp_url  

max. 20 participants

Duration: 2 hours / 18:00-20:00

When? 13.11.2024

Where?  Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40

For more information please contact us by email at monika.padejova@gmail.com

More info about Eva Bubla: https://www.kair.sk/en/eva-bubla-hu/

The residency program is supported using public funding by the Slovak Art Council. The Slovak Art Council is the main partner of this project. The project is also supported by Mesto Košice and Creative Industry Košice.

The residency of Eva Bubla is organized thanks to the partnership with Budapest Gallery.