Fermentation and Collective Wellbeing of Micro and Macro Organisms

Workshop hosted by Paweł Stypuła
Saturday 13.06.26

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Fermentation offers a language for thinking through burnout and radical sharing, balancing exposure and withdrawal. The collective process of fermenting plant-beings becomes a way of asking: when do we need contact, and when do we need boundaries? What conditions allow us to change, without exhaustion?

The workshop takes place as a drop-in gathering with Paweł, where participants are invited to make their own ferments using a selection of plant ingredients. Jars will accumulate on shared shelves, and throughout the exhibition period, the audience is invited to take a jar home with them, or donate their own creation to the shelves.

About the host

Paweł Stypuła (b. 1987, Poland) is an artist and carpenter based in Oslo. His work spans relational aesthetics, biomaterials, low-tech practices, reuse, and degentrification.

At Dep.artment, a living and fluid studio that is also his home in Tøyen, he transforms the space into a site for experimentation and collective engagement, where architecture, food, and technology intersect. His current projects explore try-how and fermentation, emphasizing rest, playful chaos, and subtle forms of interaction. Through intuitive practices and story-sharing, he investigates alternative ways of living, creating, and connecting, inviting participants to engage spontaneously with environments, materials, and each other.

He founded the Porridge Club, a series of experimental breakfast gatherings, and is developing regenerative projects in a former school building at the North Cape, transforming it into a residency and research centre.

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The Fallow Year

This is one of five free workshops as part of The Fallow Year, where Amber Ablett invites other artists to think about what creates rest for them, and to use the exhibition's frame to explore that. The five gatherings reflect on the exhaustion that can accompany having marginalised stories, and by creating space for people with shared experiences, identities or backgrounds, explore how community can offer moments of restoration and belonging.