3rd Metahuman Futures Forum

Picture and video galleries

For full programme and booklet/catalogue go here & PDF

Lesvos, Greece – 28th May-4th June 2024

Videos of the conference sessions:

- - 3rd MFF – SESSION 1 – 1st June Morning https://youtube.com/live/o4xKDiEwEmQ
    - The missing talk by Stelarc (due to change of room) can be found here: https://youtu.be/XPi44EM6VSQ
  - 3rd MFF – SESSION 2 – 1st June Afternoon https://youtube.com/live/ksg6wraxosg
  - 3rd MFF – SESSION 3 – 2nd June Morning https://youtube.com/live/vi5GaH0LZKE
  - 3rd MFF – SESSION 4 – 2nd June Afternoon https://youtube.com/live/dMO4fXsGMlY

Metahuman Lab – at the Queer Festival in Skala Eressos – 28th-30th May

The lab session at the Queer Festival at Ohana Ranch, the night projections at the festival opening, the visit to the Donkey Centre Sanctuary with Menga, the trips around to Kroussos, gathering plants, to Molivos and Sigri, and participating in the festival activities and the magic of Eressos, and the fabulous vegan food!

With Jaym* del Val, Patricia MacCormack, Jean-Marc Matos and Aleksandra Łukaszewicz: the Quartett of Eressos!

Metahuman Lab – improvisation in the beach of Skala Eressou, Lesvos – 29th May

with Aleksandra Łukaszewicz, Jean-Marc Matos, Anastasia Sebastiadou, and Jaym* del Val. A mesmerising, transformative journey of symbiotic and indeterminate sensations. Using Flexinamic structures built by Jaym* del Val at a refugee Camp in The Hague in 2019, which were shipped back to Jaym* in 2023 upon closure of the camp.

Metahuman Lab, plants gathered – 28th-29th May

by Aleksandra, as well as Jaym*, first in the dunes of Kroussos, later in Eressos on the way to Ohana Ranch. Taking on the metahuman mutation towards selfrewilding and nomad gathering.

: Seaholly/Eryngium maritimum – eatible – from Kroussos

: Searocket/Cakile maritima – eatible – from Kroussos

: Seafennel/Crithmum maritimum – eatible (and delicious) – from Kroussos

: Euphorbia peplis – toxic – from Kroussos

: Cocklebur/Xanthium Strumarium/Bardana – toxic – from Kroussos

: Caper/Capparis Spinosa – eatible – our dear Capers – with beautiful flower – from Kroussos

: Caper/Capparis Spinosa – eatible – our dear Capers – with beautiful flower – from Kroussos

: Sea Lavender/Limonium sp. – decorative – from Kroussos

: Sand couch Grass – a kind of wheat, for flour – from Kroussos

: Witches’ cushion/Euphorbia acanthothamnos – not eatible, and don’t sit on it! – from Kroussos

: Witches’ cushion/Euphorbia acanthothamnos – not eatible, and don’t sit on it! – from Kroussos

: At the centre Sauzgatillo/Vitex agnus-castus, for tea, very good for menopause – from Kroussos

: plants from Kroussos

: plants from Kroussos – Top left: Ferula sp. – Second from top right: scolymus hispanicus Bottom left: Seafennel/Crithmum maritimum – eatible (and delicious)

: plants from Eresssos

: Wild Carrot/Daucus Carota – root eatibleand flour for cosmetics – from Eressos

: Wild Wheat/Triticum Boeoticum – seeds eatible, like wild oat, also avaibale around – from Eressos

: Solanum elaeagnifolium/Solanum sp./Silver leaf nightshade/Quillo – poisonous – from Eressos

: Origanum Onites – A kind of Oregan – eatible -from Eressos

: Radish – Cruciferae family – – eatible – from eressos

: Sauzgatillo/Vitex agnus-castus, for tea, very good for menopause – from Eressos

: Chicory/Cichorium intyus – eatible – from Eressos

: Camomile/Matricaria chamomilla – for tea – from Eressos

: Hoary mustard/Jaramago/Sinapsis arvensis – eatible! – from Eressos

: Mallow/Malva silvestris – medicinal and decorative – from Eressos

3rd MFF – Conference and workshops in Mytilene – 31st May-2nd June

“Ending the Age of Denialism” at the University of the Aegean, with 30 fabulous speakers from 13 countries and 4 continents, and including 5 workshops – full programme and infos here & PDF

Videos of the two days conference sessions:

3rd MFF – SESSION 1 – 1st June Morning https://youtube.com/live/o4xKDiEwEmQ
- The missing talk by Stelarc (due to change of room) can be found here: https://youtu.be/XPi44EM6VSQ
3rd MFF – SESSION 2 – 1st June Afternoon https://youtube.com/live/ksg6wraxosg
3rd MFF – SESSION 3 – 2nd June Morning https://youtube.com/live/vi5GaH0LZKE
3rd MFF – SESSION 4 – 2nd June Afternoon https://youtube.com/live/dMO4fXsGMlY

Exhibition – Ocean’s Soul Reconstitution / Meta(plastic) extinctions at Sea – 31st May – 2nd June

by Joan Caronil (blue panels right and left) and Maria Asimakopoulou (white hanging sculpture in the middle) at the University of the Aegean.

Exhibition catalogues: pdf1 – pdf2

Extinction: Marine Holocaust – metaformance by Jaym* del Val – 2nd June

at the Metahuman Futures Forum, University of the Aegean in Mytilene

Performance calalogue: here

Bodynet Lab with the refugee community – 4th June

with/in RAD Music International, in Mytilene, Lesvos, imparted by Jaym* del Val and Jean-Marc Matos, 4th June, sharing the healing power and joy of moving and disaligning together.