A hybrid open-ended do-it-with-others workshop revolving around experimental making, irrational tonalities, resonant impromptu data scratching, post-digital utopias, and weird speculative artefacts. It took place at MADLab (Limassol, CY) where John Bowers lead an experimental laboratory on a continuum spanning almost 2 days (from Thursday 20th October 8:30 to Friday 21th October 17:00) with groups of students, resident researchers, invited artists, and the local public succeeding and blending with one another so as to engage with creative tactics and outputs as part of a broader hybrid event – your own 'Machine of Mantic Stain' right in central Limassol. The event has been facilitated by Marinos Koutsomichalis.
Machines of Mantic Stain
A hybrid open-ended do-it-with-others workshop revolving around experimental making, irrational tonalities, resonant impromptu data scratching, post-digital utopias, and weird speculative artefacts. It took place at MADLab (Limassol, CY) where John Bowers lead an experimental laboratory on a continuum spanning almost 2 days (from Thursday 20th October 8:30 to Friday 21th October 17:00) with groups of students, resident researchers, invited artists, and the local public succeeding and blending with one another so as to engage with creative tactics and outputs as part of a broader hybrid event – your own ‘Machine of Mantic Stain’ right in central Limassol. The event has been facilitated by Marinos Koutsomichalis.
Machines of Mantic Stain starts with a 3h long workshop for students revolving around experimental making and continues with several invited artists rehearsing and setting up prepared and improvised works. The audience is then invited to attend a series of solo performances, impromptu ‘scratch’ collaborations, expositions of various (non-)creative artefacts prepared during the workshop, and a quick presentation of the overall creative material-social process. Among others, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Dimitri Savva, Yiannis Christidis, Thanos Vozikis, Maria Mitsi, and Anastasia Melandinou participated. The following day starts with another workshop for students, this time revolving around speculative artefacts, fiction, and an exquisite corpse, and the eventual conclusion of the laboratory with an informal discussion. The following days, John Bowers produced a series of ‘laminamancies’ employing photos and materials from the event.
