Mia Melvær & Wendy Van Wynsberghe

Mia Melvær (1988, Norway) is a visual artist and researcher based in Brussels, whose work often reference moments of fishing or searching for small fragments, kinder technologies, casting nets or networks and giving weight to something that might easily drift. The work is made using highly manual scanning and printing methods, such as wood block printing, carved sculptures and paintings with various tracing techniques.

Wendy Van Wynsberghe (1974, Belgium) creates moments of zooming in on our multispecies existence, by looking at protocols and prompting interactions, as non extractive as possible. She loves to tinker, digitally and in the physical (textile, sound...) realm.

Additionally, as ‘content members’ of the Brussels based organisation Constant, Mia and Wendy facilitate open ended artistic research on the topics of what speculative and open source technologies could be.

At MORPHO, Mia and Wendy will work on developing a collective research session for Constant called Otherworldly Communications, which will look at interspecies coexistences and their different arrangements of life. Life in this context means biological, geological, digital, immaterial, time/space or beyond. The wish is to find other ways of relating and engaging with technology than through damage. Using the harbour of Antwerp as a starting point, with special attention to life organized in and around water, the intention is to start by looking closer at the less obvious communication streams and highlight the various extraction flows and interrelations involved.

,.--.-.,.--.-.,.--.-.,.--.-.,

Mia graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven, and her work has been presented in BOZAR Brussel, ESC Graz, Kunsthalle Bern, Hönnunarmiðstöð Reykjavik, BNA-BBOT Brussels and other. In addition to Constant, she also makes collaborative work through collective projects such as Mothers & Daughters – a lesbian and trans bar and BAD (Brussels Almanack Dykes).

Wendy studied literature and linguistics at Universiteit Antwerpen, with additional courses in electro-acoustic music composition (Mons) and Pure Data (Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam). As part of the collective Domestic Science Club, their performance was programmed in Belluard Bollwerk, de Warande, Pianofabriek... supported by Wp Zimmer. Her work and research was shown at Constant, Nadine, Bozar, PleinOpenAir, Bleep, and a series of group shows.