The Metabolic Arts Gathering explores art-science and metabolism through a series of monthly meetings with readings, discussions, and art sharing over the course of 2023 at Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark. Meetings will take place in February, March, April, September, October and November 2023.
Metabolic Arts Gathering (MAG) is meant as an experiment; an open-ended process of coming together to see what happens when a group of artistic practitioners engage in sustained, topical conversation over time. The outcomes are the conversations, which it is hoped will stimulate future collaborations and art making as questions are asked around what it means to develop metabolic arts and what a metabolic aesthetic can be.
The organisers invite artists to be part of the metabolic conversation around arts and seek different levels of experience with biology/science, as well as a variety of mediums. There are no required outputs: you are simply asked to engage in metabolic thought and let your art and ideas take you to new processes. Participating artists will be asked to be available for six day-long group workshops, plus an introductory and a final workshop, as well as 2.5 hours for art-science research interviews and will be compensated for their time at a rate of 60,000 DKK (~8000 EUR) with a small additional pool of funds for international artists to help off-set travel costs.
