Self-repair (work in progress) Laboratory. 2017-2018 n number of participants Concept Contributions Contact Concept “Self-repair Lab" is an artistic installation and a collaborative framework for biological, chemical and geological experimentation. The installation resembles a DIY biological experiment laboratory, where artworks, lab equipment, people and events are brought together in order to understand and to reflect self-organization of the ecosystem, human-machine interaction, and up to date discourses brought by artists, scientists and engineers. Self-repair theme refers to the organism’s ability to identify and to fix own system. If organism’s DNA gets damaged, it attempts to fix itself. From an evolutionary perspective, Lynn Margulis introduced a theory of symbiotic organisms wherein, through interaction and collaboration, prokaryotic organisms evolved into more complex eukaryotic cells (Sagan, 1966). On a social level self-repair could refer to organisms’ ability to adapt to the changing environment. There are also extreme self-repair cases, which might be interesting to consider. For example one of the better known self-surgeries under "real-life conditions" was performed by Leonid Rogozov during his expedition to the Antarctic, when he removed his own appendix. “Self-repair Lab” reflects the theme through cultural perspective. What could one do with the knowledge gained in collaboration with artists, scientists, and engineers? How one could “produce” new meanings in the collaborative setting? “Self-repair Lab" is also about acquiring knowledge and seeking of answers while making things. Having no access to science laboratory and scientists, but having access to kitchen tools and internet, one could aspire knowledge, which could help in solving problems, especially those related to ones health and the ecosystem. The installation provides laboratory tools to examine scientific experiments in a cultural context and as cultural artifacts. The experiments unfold as DIY and DIWO workshops and invite visitors to think of self-organization, ecology, interaction, and other topics relevant to the self-repair theme. Beside the culturally loaded discourses, visitors of the workshops will experience scientific method, which is based on observation, analysis and new proposals.