Opening event: February 24 2017, 7pm – 10pm
Exhibition: February 25 – 26 2017, 12am – 6 pm”
Traditionally the arts (when not being strictly conceptual) function within the natural boundaries of human perception where its purpose is to tickle the human cognition. But what happens if we push those boundaries to the very limit or even beyond (human) perception and thus focusing on this threshold or transition between cognition, perception, sensation as well as the non-anthropocentric?
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with Matthias Roth
24.02.2017 3-6pm
Distillation is a simple chemical process of separating the component substances from a liquid mixture by selective evaporation and condensation. The oldest described distillation equipment dates from about 5500 b.c. which was a pot with top on which sponges where mounted and just squeezed after boiling. Common uses of Distillation are extracting gasoline from petroleum and producing Ethanol. On this we will focus in this workshop.
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With Penka Mincheva.
23.02.2017 3-6pm
Penka will be introducing an unusual way to work with glass in a kitchen laboratory circumstances. Up to 15 to 20 min can be enough for the glass to fuse in a microwave kiln. Most common glass in the everyday surrounding contains up to 50-80 % of SiO2. The transformation can be seen in a short term.
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In 2015 and 2016 members from Top association were working on Phytomining, a technology that use living plants to clean up soil, air, and water contaminated with metals and chemicals. On the 2nd of March Mindaugas Gapsevicius and Juan Pablo Diaz present at the Die Semiosphäre von Le Commun in Geneva their research.
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A workshop with artist Elizabeth McTernan.
17.02.2017 3-6pm
“Sun collaborations: A workshop introducing the cyanotype process” workshop on cyanotype which is a photographic printing process producing a cyan-blue print and can be performed on a variety of papers and textiles. While the photo chemicals are painted onto the print surface in a dark room, the print itself is made outside, under direct sunlight. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron (III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide, which are both safe to handle and easy to obtain.
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With Veiko
Over the course of several months, Common(s)Lab will facilitate a series of DIY (or rather, Do-It-Together) neighbourhood building workshops with the assistance of a skilled craftsman, Veiko from Estonia. Together with participants, we will salvage wood and other materials from in and around the neighbourhood to construct tables, chairs, and planter boxes, and more – and learn about simple construction techniques, materials, sustainable surface treatment, and also, the background and causes of bulky waste and the issues connected to it.
Saturday, February 10 at 11 AM – 4 PM
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With Elise Mattisson Chue, Klara Ravat and Gert-Jan Stam (TAAT).
Fri 9th February 2018, 7pm
How do scent and people interact in a particular place or space?
Can we direct people’s behavior through implementing a scent design in a specific place? How do people operate when a certain aroma is spread in the public transport? What are their reactions?
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