What do a handful of soil, the forest, city greens, or some invisible creatures have to do with the health of our human and more-than-human bodies?
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 PLACCC Festival, the Lab’s pop-up pharmacy showcases its collection of medicines and treatments, encapsulated landscapes, microbial drops, and the stories of various irregular patients – cities, rivers, atmospheres. During the Future Medicine workshops the public is also invited to speculate together about the future of Budapest by designing new rites and medicines for the various lifeforms that inhabit it.
Artist: Eva Bubla
The project is rooted in the collaboration with the researchers of the Microbial Childhood Collaboratory (MCC).
Time: 8 AM – 7 PM, 3-6 September 2024 (during the opening hours of the pharmacy)
Venue: Benu Pharmacy, 1053 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 9.
Workshop time: 7 – 8 PM, 2 September 2024
Workshop location: meeting in the pharmacy
Language: the installation is English-friendly, but the workshop is in Hungarian
The installation and the workshop are free to visit, but prior registration to the workshop is required at bublaeva@gmail.com.
Max number of workshop participants: 20 persons
This project is realized as part of the IN SITU (Un)common Spaces international collaboration project. IN SITU (Un)common Spaces is supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Special thanks for the venue: Benu Gyógyszertár Budapest Astoria