Epicuro Lab is a multidisciplinary collective founded in 2022 by art producer and curator Tatiana Kourochkina, director of Quo Artis. Dedicated to artistic research, site-specific interventions, and community-driven workshops, the collective explores the biodiversity crisis in urban environments. Its core members include Gabino Carballo, agrobiologist and landscape architect and Helena Pérez, art historian, and Quo Artis' project coordinator.

Epicuro Lab collaborates with artists, scientists, and cultural practitioners, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue. Since its inception, it has worked with curator Claudia Schnugg, artists Robertina Šebjanič, Paula Bruna, Margherita Pevere, Joaquín Jara, Tranja Collective, and philosopher Eulalia Bosch, among others.  

A non-profit initiative, Epicuro Lab allocates all proceeds to artist fees and the co-financing of Quo Artis projects, ensuring continuous support for art-science collaborations. By merging art, ecology, and social engagement, Epicuro Lab creates ephemeral, impactful interventions that raise awareness of pressing environmental challenges.

Epicuro Lab started their collaborative work together with Claudia Schnugg in the workshop Community Alellopathy in the framework of "Roots&Seeds XXI - Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance"participation in Ars Electronica, in September 2022.

On 9 of May of 2023 Epicuro Lab held the first of the “Migrant Plants” workshop series with philosopher Eulàlia Bosch, a close friend of John Berger, together with a group of recently arrived migrants from various continents. The activity invited participants to establish emotional connections with their personal plant world and landscapes left behind. Inspired by John Berger's book "A Seventh Man,"  this workshop aimed to be a tribute to the author's ideas.

Epicuro Lab presented the development of the “Working Plants from Afar” artwork and the results of the different activities involving the local community at the ISEA Symposium 2023.

More recently, Epicuro Lab led two workshops at the Museu d'Història de la Immigració de Catalunya (MHIC) as part of the Imagining Futures cluster for Manifesta 15.  

Migrant Crops (October 15, 2024) explored the intersection of plant life and contemporary social challenges. Developed within the Working Plants from Afar project, it featured an installation centered on rapeseed, a plant cultivated and modified to serve human needs without recognition. Through participatory activities in the museum’s gardens and orchards, attendees reflected on the concept of biocenosis—the interdependence of living organisms—by examining how rapeseed embodies global proletarian biocenosis. 

On October 19, 2024, Epicuro Lab presented Gratitude Meditation: Honoring Migrant Plants, a guided meditation accompanied by an immersive soundscape created by artist Robertina Šebjanič, inspired by the nearby Besós River. This multilingual meditation focused on rapeseed as a migrant plant and served as an expression of gratitude to "working plants."

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