Het Life Time special weekend van vrijdag 16 tot en met zondag 18 februari geeft de mogelijkheid om zelf aan de slag te gaan met kunstenaars en te ontdekken hoe zij werken. Tijdens het uitgebreide programma met lezingen, workshops en performances presenteren kunstenaars en wetenschappers, ontwerpers en denkers verschillende vraagstukken op het gebied van bio art en design en biowetenschappelijk onderzoek. 

Voertaal Engels

Life Time special weekend
Het hele weekend kun je zien hoe harde schijven in zuur oplossen in de chemical garden van Thomas Thwaites, kun je uren luisteren naar de Longplayer, een muziekcompositie die 1000 jaar duurt, en kun je tot rust komen bij de performance Time Worth Spending door Nora Jongen en Jeannette Lili Weiss. 

Vrijdag 16 februari
17:00 – 17:45 | Live performance An Incomplete Life 
18:00 – 20:30 | Cryo-Sites: Ice Tasting 
20:30 – 22:00 | Napraten met drankjes

Reguliere entreeprijzen / gratis toegang vanaf 16:30

Zaterdag 17 februari
15:00 – 18:00 | Workshops 
- Xandra van der Eijk
- Heather Leslie

- Jiwon Woo  

18:00 – 19:00 | Diner & drankjes

19:00 – 21:00 | Presentaties & lezingen 
- Sarah Davies (The Longplayer Trust)
- Cheng Guo (winner BAD Award 2017), 
- Nora Jongen & Jeannette Lili Weiss (Time Worth Spending)
- William Myers (Chairman of the BAD Award)
21:00 – 22:30 | Napraten met drankjes

Tickets € 15,- (incl. diner). 
Studenten € 10,- (incl. diner).  

Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar via Eventbrite. Let op: voor de workshops is een beperkt aantal plaatsen beschikbaar, je moet je hiervoor apart aanmelden (in de prijs inbegrepen).

Zondag 18 februari
14:00 – 15:00 | ARTOGETHER: rondleidingen in het Nederlands en Engels voor jong met oud.
15:00 – 15:45 | Live performance An Incomplete Life

Reguliere entreeprijzen

Life Time special weekend

Chemical Garden
For Chromobytes, Thomas Thwaites dissolved digital electronics in acid, and experimented with column chromatography, which is used by chemists to separate liquid mixtures in to their constituents. The artist and scientist partially dissolved hard disks in acid. This acid mixture was dripped with sodium silicate to precipitate into artificial stalagmites.

Longplayer
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31 December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. From 16 – 18 Februari, MU will be a temporary listening post.

Time worth spending 
Time Worth Spending is an exercise in being idle by Nora Jongen and Jeannette Lili Weiss. In our always-busy culture, being idle can seem an impossible indulgence - or a total waste of time. It feels uncomfortable because it might be perceived as being lazy. But empty time is good medicine and active inactivity essential for creativity!

Cryo-Sites: Ice Tasting 
Cryo-Sites by Susana Cámara Leret & Sissel Tolaas is a collaborative research project that investigates LIFE in and through ice. The display, at MU, showcase the project in process i.e. investigations into methods of working as well as topics of importance. On 16 February we will host a tasting - and a conversation event on the topic of ICE.

The topics / menu will be: 
1. Waiting, 
2. Accumulating
3. Revealing. 

Invited Experts, related communities and practitioners, will address the various narratives surrounding ongoing transformative processes within frozen diverse environments.

Feel free to come listen to the conversation. 

Workshops Saturday 17 February

Xandra van der Eijk: Build your own hydrophone 
The message behind Seasynthesis is that we should all be listening to our oceans. Through sound, we may gain a valuable understanding of the activity of both man, aquatic life and the planet, over a vast distance. In this masterclass, we will construct our own hydrophone with inexpensive parts that can be found around the house, in the waste bin or the hardware store. You will leave ready to explore the underwater world, and we hope that your recordings will become part of a larger effort to collectively map the oceans through sound. 

Limited spots available! Please sign up via Eventbrite.

Heather Leslie: Can we design our plastic-pollution free future?

Bags, candy wraps, cigarette butts and drinking bottles have at least one thing in common: they are all found in the plastic soup, in waters around the world. Plastic long outlives all of us who use it and is on track to become a legacy pollutant of the
Anthropocene. Plastic has been powerfully framed as a problem of the oceans,
but our urban landscapes, indoor environment and food chain are also contaminated by persistent plastic. Environmental scientist Heather Leslie from the Dept. of Environment and Health, VU, Amsterdam organizes a workshop in which participants will discuss how plastic technology bit us back, and entertain ideas about designing e.g. packaging materials that are not destined for the plastic soup - or to be monotonous messages to the geological future. What if these designs were infused with a human intention of harmony with natural ecological systems and ourselves? Join this workshop to gain more knowledge in environmental processes of living and
perishing, and to think about designing great stuff without a pollution afterlife.

Limited spots available! Please sign up via Eventbrite.

Jiwon Woo: Grow your own Makgeolli
Mother’s Hand Taste (Son-mat) is a culinary ode to the personal touch. In the workshop, participants will explore the complex relationships between intangible cultural heritage, microbiology, immigration, and notions of a ‘transient self’. We will examine living organisms on our hands, especially yeast, and its effects on the taste of fermented food that every culture has been inherited in different forms for more than thousands of years. By Investigating Korean word “Son-mat (hand taste)” through artistic and scientific means, participants will think critically on the origins, authenticity, and preservation of cultural heritage. They will leave the workshop with their own hand printed growing hand yeast petri dish, Korean rice wine Makgeolli that they cooked with their own “Son-mat”, and a critical reconsideration of his/her own heritage.

In collaboration with Freek Appels, Institute of Environmental Biology, Microbiology group, Utrecht University

Limited spots available! Please sign up via Eventbrite.

Waar MU
Wanneer vrijdag 17– zondag 18 februari 2018.
Aanmelden & tickets via Eventbrite.