An Algoliterary Publishing House

From 24 May till 12 June Anaïs Berck will be in residency in Medialab Prado. The residency consists of three parts, with different possible modalities of sharing, participation and collaboration. During this residency Anaïs Berck proposes to explore the idea of a decolonial publishing house in which...
Anaïs Berck, Una editorial algoliteraria

Anaïs Berck, An algoliterary publishing house

From 24 May till 12 June Anaïs Berck will be in residency in Medialab Prado. The residency consists of three parts, with different possible modalities of sharing, participation and collaboration.

Application to reduce the ecological footprint of your shopping basket

Aims of the Project Improve the social knowledge about the ecological impact of the food we buy by developing an app. Summary Food consumption is a good target in order to reduce the ecological impact of our lives, but neither the labeling nor the complex information necessary to take good decisions...

Between the planet and the market: Mapping the climate financial complex

As part of the LAB#01 Medios Sintientes program, Medialab Matadero invites you to participate in the collective research workshop entitled Between the planet and the market: Mapping the climate financial complex, which will be given by artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang on April 20, from 5 to 8 pm, in Nave 16 of Matadero Madrid. 

Aimed at journalists, economists, artists, writers, and anyone interested in these issues with basic research skills, the objective of this workshop will be to develop scenarios and intervention strategies, where participants will explore the economics of the

Beyond Empirical Re-Aesthetics

«This is the collection of the temperature festival, a party that never "occurred", because it was not legal. Maybe there was a botellón, but outside the Matadero Madrid. In any case it is a story of frustration but also of learning. The objective was never the party itself, which was only an excuse...

Collaborative cooking workshop 'Cocina tu Deuda' (Cook your Debt)

In this workshop, directed by Cocinar Madrid, we will cook a delicious menu among all the participants, which we will then share and taste. While we peel potatoes and cut carrots we will be launching concepts: food sovereignty, ecological debt, kilometric food, gender debt... We will talk about how and under what conditions food is produced, where it comes from, what social and ecological costs it has. Together we will elaborate and cook, at the same time that we cook the food, the definitions of these concepts and knowledge to share them and to be able to debate while we enjoy the delicacies

Cooking Earth

The food research platform Black Almanac operates on the assumption that humans have barely begun to exploit the full spectrum of possibilities for energy and matter that might be understood as “food.” Far from it. In fact, we argue that it is the repetition of a limited repertoire of cultural, culinary, technological and agricultural techniques that is the primary cause of widespread ecological damage suffered in the name of feeding. 

In 12,000 years of agricultural time, human beings have cooked both dishes and the landscapes that produce them. We cook the Earth in order to feed ourselves

Cooking with Information: Art, Science, and the Transformation of the Food System

A round table discussion as part of Cooking Earth, part of the LAB#02 “The Metabolic Sublime”

Is cooking art or science? Is it both? We live in an age of culinary conservatism, which is bad news for the planet, our taste buds, and our souls. While many of us strive for radical innovations in art, politics, technology and design, why does the world of food and agriculture seem so hopelessly difficult to change?

To celebrate Cooking Earth at Medialab-Matadero – a week of workshops, lectures and events dedicated to questions of food system transformation – we will convene a group of expert