C is for Citrus

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they’re here! over 20 varieties of @todolicitrusfundacio marvels, ready to be tasted from tomorrow evening on, until christmas. get them as long as stocks last!
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todolí pop-up
shop open daily 18-24 dec 10-20h

there’s not only fruits! we have an evening program to go with the todoli citrus shop

cocktail special 19 dec from 20h

performances/music in odoriferous atmosphere, brought to you by ben kaczor

sat 20 dec
20:30 – 21:00 performance by sanja lukanović & simon baumann
followed by music by damla

mon 22 dec
20:30 – 21:15 agnes leclaire live
21:30 listening session: papiro’s new album “Uscire Da Fuori”

art basel special: we all scream (for i scream), kaspar könig and friends

inflatable organ/EARphones plus homemade ice cream open every day from noon til 7pm (or longer)mon 4-6pm: blowing things up (kind of an opening)wed 5pm: launch of the post research dinner series (with instrumental prelude)fri 8pm: bar and music

once a month, we invite researchers working outside of institutional research contexts and discuss their research practice, the challenges, the pros and cons, the experiences with institutions, the freedom of freelancing.
ah, why post, you might ask? think pluralism, think anti scientific method monopoly, think epistemological anarchy. we’ll talk about that more in detail, for sure.

launch this wednesday with Kaspar König, sound artist, hacker, inventor, listener (and much more)

tuning in from 5pm: apero and live music in the inflatable organ with Kaspar König, Jope Schneider and friends
dinner discussion from 8pm: Kaspar König in conversation with Roland Fischer

Sci-Fi Sunday! 27 April 18h – Chinese SciFi

Zu Gast: Jessica Imbach, Junior Professor in Freiburg and specialist for aesthetics and politics of genre fiction in China, focusing in particular on science fiction

Wir werden also über Fortschrittsglauben und -geschichten in China reden – und wie sich das vom Westen unterscheidet. Gibt es überhaupt so etwas wie eine “chinesische” SciFi-Tradition? Was wäre daran charakteristisch? Lässt sich via SciFi Gesellschaftskritik leichter an den Zensoren vorbeischmuggeln?

What started in 1985 as an intellectual debate on the meaning and relevance of tradition (Confucianism in particular), science, and Western theory to China’s integration into the global economic system, was by the time it violently ended in 1989 a nation-wide discussion on national identity and globalisation that also had an enormous influence on popular culture.

Und was hat es mit dem Sinofuturismus auf sich?

Screening: Civilization, Technology and Consciousness

11. April, 6pm
screening: 7.30
cocktails and exchange with Felix Stalder after

Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey

A video by World-Information.Net – Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder

In his last interview, cultural theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson draws a wide arc through the history of civilization, technology and consciousness. As the author of “Temporary Autonomous Zone” and dozens of other books, including titles like “Pirate Utopias”, he inspired several generations. He died one day after the last recording of this interview in May 2022.

post research
regular dinner discussions, fostoering a wide plurality of research cultures

post research as in post modern – not as a position that overcomes the concept of research and leaves it behind, but as a position of complexity:

If there is a common denominator to all these postmodernisms, it is that of a crisis in representation: a deeply felt loss of faith in our ability to represent the real, in the widest sense. No matter whether they are aesthestic [sic], epistemological, moral, or political in nature, the representations that we used to rely on can no longer be taken for granted.

he citrus are back! 21-23 march, todoli spring edition

open friday-sunday 10am until evening, with cocktails on friday, food on saturday, scifi special on sunday

symbiont macht mit bei der ∑ SUMME Biennale 2025!

Der symbiont als pluriversité populaire: wir präsentieren eine Reihe von «Kontaminationen», experimentellen Begegnungs- und Diskutierformaten, um uns gegenseitig mit Ideen und Gedanken-Memen anzustecken. Keine Reinheitsgebote, nichts für Puristen! Hier wird mit Lust gemixt und durcheinander gebracht. Es gibt Cocktails, es gibt Bücher, es gibt Kaffee und Kuchen.

All I have done … is dominated by the thought of a virus, what could be called a parasitology, a virology, the virus being many things…. The virus is in part a parasite that destroys, that introduces disorder into communication. … . On the other hand, it is something that is neither living nor non-living.
Jacques Derrida

chatty chatty

✦((✧:●:✧))✦ Chatty Chatty No. 5 with MAYA MINDER @symbiont.space ✦((✧:●:✧))✦

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We look forward to the next event in our student-led talk series “Chatty Chatty” on the 25th of February, 5:30pm open doors and 6pm Workshop start

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For Maya Minder, ⁠Cooking serves to reveal the metaphor of the human transformation of raw nature into cooked culture and she combines it to the evolutionary ideas of a symbiotic co-existence between plants, animals and humans.

What if the ocean would be sweet not salty? (hands-on Workshop)

So unfamiliar to inland people, the Ocean has been shaping seaside-community’s way of habits and cooking practices living in its proximity. They follow the circadian and lunar rhythm of the tides, things move in the fluidity of the waves, repetition and time are inscribed in daily practices. The environment has effects on humans and how they perceive daily life. Oceans such as Mountains give spiritual influence to humans, where men subsides to natural forces and the awareness that the more significant cause is bigger than the self. This workshop tries to fractal our perception towards materiality and existence. In this hands-on experience creating sweet Japanese crystals while playing with fractal shapes, similar to them.

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Lemon Dumplings and fizzy drinks provided by the sweet “To Fold Dough Around Filling” ⁠student crew^^

symbiont flea market #1: clothes and such

it’s a share fair!

with défilé, performance, music26-28 Jan

bringt kleider usw. die ihr nicht mehr braucht und baut einen kleinen stand auf – oder kommt einfach schauen und shoppen. wir sorgen für das mobiliar und den rahmen: musik, programm, kaffee/drinks.


fr 17-22 — bar ab 19
sa 11-22 — with maybe some music
so 12-18 — kaffee und kuchen

keine standmiete [kleine provision/kollekte für unseren aufwand sagen wir nicht nein]

rare citrus! before christmas

open daily, weekdays 12-19, weekends 10-19

A geometry of tastes and scents, we have 20 varieties: Palestina. Vaniglia, Sarzana Lemons, Cioccolate, Navelina, Clementina, Pomelo, Oroblanco, Star Ruby, Bergamotti, Borneo, Amalfi limone Pane, Volkamer, Meyer, Clams, Lipo, Marrakech, Chinotto, Faustrime

specials:
jeden Samstag Drinks (Sours, natürlich, aber auch Grog und manches mehr)
Dinners, Movie Nights usw. — nach Ansage

Rare citrus for the senses and for the soul

here we go again: rare citrus december at symbiont, coming direct from todolí citrus fundacio. open daily! 10-19h

come and taste more than 20 special citrus varieties (list see below)

– thirsty Thursday: cocktail workshops and drinks til late, every Thursday from 18h (starting next week)
– sour soul: DJs every Friday
 – coffee, cake and books: every Sunday afternoon

List of varieties:

cocktails for a guest

Art Basel special — we held regular cocktail evenings, out on the street, with great guests.

#1 — 28. Mai: Adrian Notz, Kurator AI Center ETH (und Ex-Cabaret-Voltaire)

#2 — 4. Juni: Germanist Hannes Bajohr, der eine gewisse Obsession für Texte entwickelt hat, die nicht von Menschen geschrieben sind. Vielleicht machen wir ja einen kleinen Turing-Test? Sind nämlich gar nicht mehr so leicht zu unterscheiden, Menschen- und Maschinentexte.

#3 — 12. Juni: Susanna Hertrich, Book Launch Following The Elephant-Nosed Fish

#4 — 14. Juni: Marcel Meury, Kunsthalle Tropical

#5 — 16. Juni: Melanie Bossert, Artist/Google interaction designer

#6 — 17. Juni: Selena Savic, Program lead Make/Sense IXDM

#7 — 18. Juni: Philipp Schrögel, Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien (Capas), Heidelberg