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, treatments and medicines 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 FAROUT Festival, the Lab’s pop-up pharmacy showcases various Milan-specific patients and invites the public to speculate together about the future of the city by designing new rites and medicines for the various lifeforms that inhabit it.
Bio
Eva Bubla is a Hungarian artist and activist. Her works articulate current ecological concerns and are strongly connected to the specific environment. She is keen on working together with local citizens, communities and other sectors. At the boundaries of art and science, her projects aim to map, perceive, interpret and as such (re)connect audiences to the local ecosystem by offering new perspectives, future imaginations, and alternative ways of doing.
Credits
The project is rooted in the collaboration with the researchers of the Microbial Childhood Collaboratory (MCC) at Tampere University, Finland.
The Milanese adaptation of Microbial Futures Lab was developed during the residency at BASE and supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the frame of (UN)COMMON SPACES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.
This event is part of CAVALCAVIA, the diffuse festival realised by BASE Milano with the neighbourhoods of Barona, Giambellino and San Siro thanks to the support of the Municipality of Milan in the context of Milano è Viva
