More-than-Planet @ Ars Electronica 2023

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More-than-Planet @ Ars Electronica 2023

6.9.2023 – 10.9.2023

It’s a full programme!

 1 conference

3 workshops

3 expert tours

12 artworks in the Theme Exhibition

1 event in Deep Space 8K

come and join us

and visit the More-than-Planet Lab

in the POSTCITY Bunker

 

> More-than-Planet

http://www.more-than-planet.eu

The More-than-Planet project seeks to redefine our understanding and representation of the environment on the level of the planet as a conceptual whole. With 75% of the planet’s land surface experiencing measurable human pressure, the way people envision the planet significantly impacts the environment itself. Such environmental imaginaries are shaped by underlying concepts, value systems, visual cultures and technologies, which are not neutral or inclusive of society. Through collaboration with artists, critical thinkers, and experts from cultural, environmental, and outer space institutions, the project aims to address the crisis surrounding our planetary imaginary and foster a more inclusive and accurate portrayal of the planet.

> Theme Exhibition : (Co)Owning More-than-Truth

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/theme-exhibition/

Developed within the framework of the More-than-Planet-project, this year’s theme exhibition, (Co)Owning More-than-Truth, calls for a complete shift in our worldviews, relationships, language, consciousness, and narratives across the planet. (Co)Owning More-than-Truth views truth as a pharmacon to navigate current topologies of the knowledge structure, to map them out as dynamic and multifaceted entities and to accommodate the truths that are drifting and shifting. On display are artworks gliding from truths unearthed from the landscapes, ecosystems and cycle of life in and out of Earth to ground truths of collecting data and processing information to challenge existing regimes of knowledge. Deviating from the quandary of what the truth is and to whom we delegate the right to the truth, (Co)Owning More-than-Truth offers a space where interdisciplinary practices, approaches, and narratives are pluralized to unearth a more profound and inclusive understanding of being together, forging a path towards a consensus of collective efforts for the crises we face as a whole.

Artists: Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE); Gregor Krpič (SI), Simon Gmajner (SI), Dr. Jan Babič (SI), Dr. Marko Jamšek (SI), Gal Sajko (Jožef Stefan Institute) (SI); Cecilia Vilca (PE); David Shongo (CD); Felipe Castelblanco (CO), Lydia Zimmermann (CH); Karen Palmer (GB); PЯОТO-ALIEИ PЯOJECT (CO/JP); Anne Duk Hee Jordan (DE/KR), Pauline Doutreluingne (BE); Barnaby Francis (GB), Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja (GB), Dale Vince (GB); Spektr Z (SI); Sebastian Schmieg (DE); Noor Stenfert Kroese (NL), Amir Bastan (IR)

 

> MORE-THAN-PLANET LAB

Location: POSTCITY Bunker

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/more-than-planet-lab/

Located at the heart of the theme exhibition in the POSTCITY bunker, the More-than-Planet Lab is not only hosting the workshops but also proposing a whole range of documentation from the partners activities in the project and more. We offer an experimental space teeming with living traces, narratives and imageries to carve a new lens into how we perceive the planet. Through exploring ongoing projects and participating in workshops, we aspire to deepen our understanding of the planet and raise collective awareness of urgent planetary issues.

> CONFERENCE: (Un)Earthing the Truth: Ownership and Narratives about the Planet.

Friday Sept 8th, 11:00 – 18:00

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/unearthing-the-truth/

On Friday it’s More-than-Planet day, on which the central question is ‘Who owns the planet?’ in (Un)Earthing the Truth: Ownership and Narratives about the Planet we delve into the notion of ownership in relation to the planet, questioning their complicated relationship. The day will also be dedicated to discussion and talks on topics addressing environmental concerns, planetary imaginaries, and related environing technologies. In debates and keynotes traversing the deep seas and the stratospheric skies, we reshape our understanding of ownership, recontextualizing the dominant economic systems and power hierarchies that have allowed us to establish proprietary relationships with our planet. Guests from a wide array of disciplines, encompassing artists, scientists, scholars, and economists, will discuss to challenge the narratives that mold our comprehension of ecological concerns.

> WORKSHOPS

Registration Required (follow the links)

Meeting Point: POSTCITY, We Guide You Meeting Point (First Floor)

Location: POSTCITY, More-than-Planet Lab

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/workshops/

* Planetary Public Stack

Wednesday Sept 6th, 14:00 – 16:00

led by Miha Turšič, Waag Futurelab (SI/NL)

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/planetary-public-stack/?occurrence=2023-09-06

This project builds on an earlier project, the Public Stack, which is based on the idea that all these technological layers should be developed from public values and takes a critical look at our use of technology. It builds from conceptual foundations of the comparative planetary imaginaries (matterings, concepts, cosmologies) toward required capacities (technologies, tools, data, skills) and the development of concrete new cases of public imaginaries. The participants will work on the technologies and skills to develop collaborative and art-driven innovation approaches with critical and creative tools for addressing today’s environmental troubles.

* Systemic Change in the Times of Polycrisis

Thursday Sept 7th, 14:00 – 15:30

led by Antti Tenetz (FI), Tero Toivanen (FI)

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/systemic-change-polycrisis/?occurrence=2023-09-07

The workshop « Systemic Change in Times of Polycrisis » explores how we can broaden our horizons and find sustainable solutions to the polycrisis caused by ecological emergency. It focuses on radical change in industrial societies. The perspectives of polycrisis will be linked to local examples that will be explored through the work of artists, researchers and activists. The discussion shifts from the global to the national/regional and back to the planetary level and is linked to selected art projects in the exhibition and to More than Planet art and science activities in Pyhäsalmi, the deepest metal mine in Europe and the Oulanka Research Station located in the middle of the Northern Boreal Forest, the world’s largest terrestrial biome.

* Planetary mattering

Saturday Sept 9th, 14:00 – 15:30

led by Miha Turšič, Waag Futurelab (SI/NL)

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/planetary-mattering/?occurrence=2023-09-09

It matters which planet we portray, and which one we do not. In this workshop, participants will learn about ways of mattering. With this term, we refer to the images, interests and facts that shape our image of the planet, and, in turn, how the solidification of these imaginaries determines the way we talk about the Earth and the decisions we make. Mattering looks at both the matter itself and its significance. In short, we research the drivers behind how we see our environment.

> EXPERT TOURS

Registration Required (follow the links)

3 tours in the themed exhibition focusing each time on specific artworks

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/we-guide-you/#experttours

 * Mattering by Miha Turšič (SI)

Wednesday Sept 6th, 10:30 – 12:00

Meeting Point: POSTCITY, We Guide You Meeting Point (First Floor)

Location: POSTCITY, More-than-Planet Lab

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/expert-tour-miha-tursic/

‘Matter’ can be understood as both a noun and a verb: it is about material and about caring. Mattering is the inseparable interplay between creating facts and values, and the cultural and societal structures that emerge from this dynamic relationship. The way in which we imagine our planet influences our direct environment and therefore matters greatly. What matters to us depends on a multiplicity of different things: locality, ethics, morals, values. Understanding the diversity of drivers behind environmental concepts will contribute to better accessibility of environmental knowledge. This tour will guide you through a varied selection of different artworks that will reflect on matters-of-fact, matters-of-concern, matters-of-care, and matters-of-hope.

* Terraforming Earth – Decolonizing Space by Annick Bureaud (FR)

Thursday Sept 7th, 12:00 – 13:30

Meeting Point: POSTCITY, We Guide You Meeting Point (First Floor)

Location: POSTCITY, More-than-Planet Lab

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/expert-tour-annick-bureaud/

Terraformation is used to describe the process by which we would like to transform other planets to make them habitable for us. Colonisation has become the synonym to appropriation and exploitation. We’ll consider those two notions to discuss how they could be useful in looking back at Earth and our endeavours in Space today through a selection of three artworks from the exhibition.

* Mikro Makro by Marko Peljhan and Uros Veber (SI)

Saturday Sept 9th, 11:00 – 12:30

Meeting Point: POSTCITY, We Guide You Meeting Point (First Floor)

Location: POSTCITY, More-than-Planet Lab

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/expert-tour-mikro-makro/

MIKRO-MAKRO, from observation to orientation, led by Marko Peljhan (SI) and Uroš Veber (SI) will be focused on the works that could be understood as systems observatories and will attempt to synthesize certain common topical vectors present in all of them.

> DEEP SPACE 8K

Ars Electronica More-than-Planet Commission: Connected – how the world is more than the sum of its parts

by Jörg Menche (DE), Sebastian Pirch (AT), Norbert Unfug (AT), Felix Müller (DE), Christiane V. R. Hütter (AT)

Wednesday, Sep. 6th, 18:30 – 19:00

Location: Ars Electronica Center/DEEP SPACE 8K

https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/connected/

The project Connected–how the world is more than the sum of its parts unveils the multifaceted nature of the Earth’s systems, unraveling a system’s underlying structural principles, from natural phenomena to human creations.

Through a transformative journey, visitors are invited in a captivating exploration of the Earth’s diverse biomes, guided by the perspective of three avatars: a fox exploring solid land, a turtle diving through open water and a bird discovering the seemingly endless sky.

Through the avatar’s eyes, visitors experience macro to micro systems, from animal swarms, networks of flora, sprawling infrastructures, to the vast expanse of the world wide web and the human organism itself as a complex network of biomolecular interactions.

In a synergistic fusion of scientific inquiry and artistic expression, Connected invites the audience to embrace the beauty of Earth’s interconnected fabric, aiming to foster understanding of the intricacies that govern our world.

 

More-Than-Planet is an international cooperation project between Stichting Waag Society (NL), lead partner, Zavod Projekt Atol (SI), Ars Electronica (AT), Digital Art International ART2M/Makery (FR), Northern Photographic Centre (FI) and Leonardo/Olats (FR).

Co-funded by the European Union (programme Creative Europe)

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A l’Ecoute : deux nouvelles séries de podcasts de Leonardo/Olats

Dans notre coin de la Terre, on va vers la fin de l’été, ailleurs c’est une autre saison qui se termine, partout la météorologie est sans dessus dessous dans un climat bouleversé.

Voici de quoi nourrir vos oreilles et votre réflexion mais de façon douce avec ces deux séries de podcasts réalisés dans le cadre du projet More-than-Planet

La première série est celle liée au colloque Global Periphery qui s’est tenu les 23 et 24 septembre dernier à Paris et que j’ai organisé avec Leonardo/Olats (oui, presque un an déjà !).

GlobalPeriphery-cards-6-FEATURE-1Les contributeurs à ces podcasts sont : Frédérique Aït Touati, Eleanor Armstrong, Valentine Auphan, Fabiane Borges, Marie-Pier Boucher, Annick Bureaud, Ewen Chardronnet, Fatou Cissé, Rohini Devasher, Arthur Engehard, Bernard Foing, , Michelle Hanlon, Eduardo Kac, Rob La Frenais, Marcus Neustetter, Ale de la Puente, Priyanka Rajkakati, Antti Tenetz.

La deuxième série est celle liée au colloque Ocean Space Ocean des 16 et 17 mai 2023 à Paris, organisé par Ewen Chardronnet avec Carine Le Malet pour Makery

More-Than-Planet-Leonardo-Olats-how-do-you-portrait-a-planet-FEATURELes contributeurs à ces podcasts sont : Annick Bureaud, Sébastien Dutreuil, Federico Franciamore, Xavier Fourt, Gabriel Gee, Lily Hibberd, Hideo Iwasaki, Anne Marie Maes, Nicolas Maigret, Maya Minder, Anthea Oestreicher, Alice Pallot, John Palmesino, Marko Peljhan, Nicola Triscott, Miha Tursič

Et le design sonore est toujours fait par Jean-Yves Leloup.

* More-Than-Planet is an international cooperation project between Stichting Waag Society (NL), lead partner, Zavod Projekt Atol (SI), Ars Electronica (AT), Digital Art International ART2M/Makery (FR), Northern Photographic Centre (FI) and Leonardo/Olats (FR).

Co-funded by the European Union (programme Creative Europe)

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

 

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The Peripatetic Tour of the Nelson Mandela Garden in Paris above ISEA

The Traveling Plant @ ISEA 2023 with Eva-Maria Lopez

Nelson Mandela Garden, Les Halles, Paris

May 17th 2023, 12:00 – 13:15 CET – free upon registration, limited number of participants

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The Traveling Plant has been selected for ISEA Paris and is thrilled to discover the Nelson Mandela Garden, laying right above the ISEA venue, at the very centre of the City. Under the guidance of artist Eva-Maria Lopez and with the active participation of ISEA attendees and free audience, in the now traditional art and science methodologies of fieldtrips and walkspaces, The Traveling Plant is walked through five Stations to uncover a new understanding of this specific designed urban environment. Eva-Maria Lopez is reading the garden through some selected plants and areas, bringing to the forefront stories —historical, economical, political and botanical— that the plants are embodying. The Tour is part of her project The Gentlemen in my garden.

The Veridical Travel Around The World of A True Imaginary Plant traces the voyage of a plant —real, artificial or fictitious— around the world, telling its own story, the stories of other plants and living creatures (other than human and humans) it encounters, of whom and what it meets.

Initiated in 2020, The Traveling Plant (TP for short) started its voyage in the Kepler’s Garden of Ars Electronica before going to Barcelona and Evora in 2021.

 

Eva-Maria Lopez, is an artist working with the themes of nature, ecology and their historical contexts. In her projects, she explores the relationship between object and environment. Her sensitivity to the destruction of natural habitats and resources, as well as socially anchored structures in contemporary societies, is highly visible. In her work, Lopez places various realities in new contexts and thereby make them visible.

https://www.evamarialopez.com

 

Curators

The Traveling Plant Team: Annick Bureaud, Tatiana Kourochkina, Marta de Menezes, Claudia Schnugg, Robertina Šebjanič

 

The meeting point will be communicated closer to the event to the registered participants.

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Vidéo de la performance « Imaginary Futures »

Fatou Cissé, "Imaginary Futures" performance, sept 2022, image Quentin Chevrier

Fatou Cissé, « Imaginary Futures » performance, sept 2022, image Quentin Chevrier

Un des grands bonheurs que j’ai eu en 2022 a été l’organisation du colloque Global Periphery qui a été ouvert et clôturé par la performance Imaginary Futures sous la direction de Marcus Neustetter.

En voici une captation vidéo dans un montage d’extraits magnifiquement réalisé par Antoine Perroteau

sur le site de Leonardo/Olats ; directement sur YouTube ; directement sur Vimeo.

Avec Marcus Neustetter Imaginary Futures réunissait Fatou Cissé de Dakar présente à Paris et les artistes sud-africains Aja Marneweck (Cape Town), Miné Kleynhans et Teddy Mhlambi (Bloemfontein), Ciara Struwig, Thulisile Binda et Xolisile Bongwana (Johannesburg).

 

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Global Periphery is part of More-Than-Planet project, an international cooperation project between Stichting Waag Society (NL), lead partner, Zavod Projekt Atol (SI), Ars Electronica (AT), Digital Art International ART2M (FR), Northern Photographic Centre (FI) and Leonardo/Olats (FR).

Global Periphery is organised by Leonardo/Olats; curators: Annick Bureaud and Marcus Neustetter.

Collaborations with Chaire arts & sciences, Ecole polytechnique and Ensad (FR)

and with Cité Internationale des Arts.

Endorsed by ITACCUS, the Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space of the IAF-International Astronautical Federation.

Co-funded by the European Union (Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them)

Leonardo/Olats received the support from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris and the Institut Français India.

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More Than Planet, Leiden Exhibition

Leiden Observatory in the Hortus Botanicus

Leiden Observatory in the Hortus Botanicus

More Than Planet exhibition in Leiden

My article for Makery both in English and in French (changement de langue sur la page de Makery)

More-than-Planet is a three year programme (2022-2025) that intends to re-examine the way people understand and picture the environment on the level of the planet as a conceptual whole, carried by the partners Stichting Waag Society (NL), Ars Electronica (AT), Northern Photographic Finland (FI), ART2M/Makery (FR), Leonardo/Olats (FR) and Zavod Projekt Atol (SI).

In a collaboration with artists, critical thinkers, and various experts from cultural, environmental, and outer space institutions, the project will address a crisis of planetary imaginary.

It is under this very same title that the first event, the More-Than-Planet exhibition, is now on view at the Old Observatory in Leiden (Netherlands) until December 31st 2022

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Theater of Vegetal Appreciation

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Theater of Vegetal Appreciation

If you look closely, you will see the snail on the cut up page on the box and discover it again in one of the story, in pictures, writing and pop up. You can also discover it online together with all the stories that compose Theater of Vegetal Appreciation.

Theater of Vegetal Appreciation* is a hybrid publication on paper and online that is part of the « Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance » project.

It is based on the contributions —notebooks sketches and writings—, podcasts, photographs and exchanges produced by the participants to the workshop « Cartography of a Garden » that took place in the near suburb of Paris on September 30th and October 1st 2021, cut, reassembled and woven together in stories.

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The online publication is available on the Leonardo/Olats website for all to browse and read in a free and hypertexted way.

The printed publication takes the form of a box containing 9 booklets that unfold to reveal the stories that can be read in a combinatory manner.

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This publication, designed by Etienne Mineur, is shown during exhibitions and special events. Its debut is at Ars Electronica Sept 7 -11 2022.

Come and see us!

Credits & Captions

General concept and editor: Annick Bureaud

Paper publication concept and realisation: Etienne Mineur

Online publication: Jérôme Foubert

Professional photographer to the workshop: Quentin Chevrier

Card deck graphic designer: Perrine Serre

Podcasts sound designer: Jean-Yves Leloup

 

*Title borrowed from Laura Cinti’s contribution

 

Contribution material from: Karine Bonneval (Bo), Annick Bureaud (Bu), Lucie Campagnolo (Ca), Quentin Chevrier (Ch), Laura Cinti (Ci), Kim Doan Quoc (Qu), Eva Figueras Ferrer (Fi), Teresa Garnatje Roca (Ga), Lauranne Germond (Ge), Tatiana Kourochkina (Ko), Loïc Le Noan (Len), Kristina Maurer (Ma), Marit Mihklepp (Mi), Sophie Nadot (Na), Cyrille Prestianni (Pr), Mar Redondo Arolas (Re), Meredith Root-Bernstein (Ro), Marc-André Selosse (Se), Perrine Serre (Se), Jean-Luc Soret (So), Anaïs Tondeur (To), Joan Vallès Xirau (Va).

 

« Roots & Seeds XXI. Biodiversity Crisis and Plant Resistance » is an international cooperation project between Quo Artis (ES) as lead partner, Ars Electronica (AT), Leonardo/Olats (FR), University of Barcelona (ES) and in collaboration with the Botanical Institute of Barcelona. It is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Leonardo/Olats received the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.

 

https://www.olats.org/roots-and-seeds-xxi/https://rootsandseedsxxi.eu/

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Global Periphery: A Journey Through Space Imaginaries

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Global Periphery, Contemporary Imaginaries of Outer Space, Multiple Voices

Friday Sept 23rd – Saturday Sept 24th 2022

Cité Internationale des Arts – 18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville – Paris

14h00 – 19h00

Free upon registration

Global Periphery: a symposium and performance exploring contemporary imaginaries of outer space through examples of artistic creations and of space activities with voices from multiple continents and locations.

The current space competition —business, research, activities of all kinds— is world wide but the dominant narrative still comes from the USA. The space iconography is strongly NASA/Hollywood-driven.

What are the other narratives?

Who are the « others’s voices »?

What do they say?

What can be said?

The Global Periphery event intends to contribute to give voice to some of those other voices, to work together, to hybridized, to raise questions.

Global Periphery deals with the contemporary imaginaries of outer space, the existing ones, through examples, experiences and activities of both artists and cultural players on the one hand and engineers, scientists and the space sector on the other.

Participants: Eleanor Armstrong (UK/SE), Fabiane Borges (BR), Rohini Devasher (IN), Davis Cook (ZA), Oulimata Gueye (SN/FR, tbc), Michelle Hanlon (USA), Eduardo Kac (USA/BR), Susmita Mohanty (IN), Ale de la Puente (MX), Yoko Shimizu (JP/AT), Frédérique Aït Touati (FR).

Global Periphery is also about building together new imaginaries, with the Imaginary Futures project by Marcus Neustetter, an online/on site performance, semi improvised with 6 artists in South Africa and one performer in Paris.

Participants: Initiator and host artist Marcus Neustetter ; live performer in Paris Fatou Cissé ; performers in different parts of South Africa, Thulisile Princess Binda, Xolisile Bongwana, Miné Kleynhans, Aja Marneweck, Sifiso Teddy Mhlambi, Ciara Struwig.

Global Periphery co-curators: Annick Bureaud and Marcus Neustetter.

Global Periphery is part of More-Than-Planet project, an international cooperation project between Stichting Waag Society (NL), lead partner, Zavod Projekt Atol (SI), Ars Electronica (AT), Digital Art International ART2M (FR), Northern Photographic Centre (FI) and Leonardo/Olats (FR).

Global Periphery is organised by Leonardo/Olats

Collaborations with Chaire arts & sciences, Ecole polytechnique and Ensad (FR)

Endorsed by ITACCUS, the Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space of the IAF-International Astronautical Federation.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Leonardo/Olats received the support from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris and the Institut Français India.

 

 

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Global Periphery, Paris Sept 23rd and 24th 2022

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Save the Date ! 23rd – 24th September – Global Periphery – Paris

 

Global Periphery is a hybrid symposium on contemporary space imaginaries and activities cooked for you by Annick Bureaud and Marcus Neustetter, including Marcus’s Imaginary Futures experimental collective online and on site performance.

The dominant space imaginaries are rooted in the culture of the nations that have lead the first era of the space exploration, largely coming from the United States of America and the Hollywood iconography. What have been —and are— doing all the others? Stating, analysing, re-interpreting, questionning, cross-breeding, inventing, creating space imaginaries in and from multiple dimensions is at the core of Global Periphery.

It is part of More-Than-Planet, a Creative Europe project of which Leonardo/Olats is a partner. Global Periphery is thus part of a conceptual understanding of the planet as a global dynamic system.

 

Stay tune!

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LASER Paris – 21 avril 2022 – « Alone or in Mound? » – Special Roots & Seeds XXI

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How to reproduce when you are the last male of your species and all the females have disappeared?

No science fiction here but the reality of Encephalartos woodii, a tropical plant of the cycad family of which only one male remained and whose clones live in botanical gardens.

What to do when faced with the loss of a species? Should it be preserved no matter what, should it be recreated?

Laura Cinti, in collaboration with the conservation scientist Debbie Jewitt, went in search of a hypothetical female in the South African forests where E. woodii originated.

 

Mounds and heaps are « treasure boxes » for archaeologists but also for ethnobiologists and conservation specialists. Between « archive » and « instrument of life evolution », these piles and heaps are at the heart of the collaboration between Marit Mihklepp, recipient of the Roots & Seeds XXI Residence – Maison Malina and Meredith Root-Bernstein, researcher at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, who will report about their exploration of the Parisian accumulations, piles and holes.

« Alone or in Mound? »

Rencontre LASER Paris

Thursday April 21st 2022

Cité internationale des arts, 18 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris

19h00 – 21h30

with Laura Cinti and Debbie Jewitt ; Marit Mihklepp and Meredith Root-Bernstein

Free admission, registration required

COVID 19 sanitary measures of the day

and we start on time!

This LASER Paris takes place in English

Drinks and snacks after the presentations

(COVID 19 situation permitting)

Audience announcements during the break (with registration)

 

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Programme

> Laura Cinti, artist and Debbie Jewitt, conservation scientist // The Living Dead – On the trail of a female (2022)

The Living Dead – On the trail of a female (2022) is a biodiversity-focused art-science project searching for a female mate for one of the rarest plants on Earth, the extinct-in-the-wild cycad – the Encephalartos woodii.

Only one male specimen was found in the Ngoye Forest in 1895 and all specimens, in botanical gardens, are clones derived from offsets from the only known male plant which was removed from the wild. Despite excursions in the Ngoye Forest area, no other specimens of E.woodii have been found in the wild.

E. woodii and the missing female is a dramatic illustration of how easy it is to lose a species and our biodiversity. The presentation will discuss the project’s latest mission utilising remote sensing technologies – drones –  to search for the E.woodii in the Ngoya Forest in South Africa.

 

> Marit Mihklepp, artist and Meredith Root-Bernstein, Ethnobiologist, ecologist, conservation scientist, CNRS researcher at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris // Mound network theory of life

mound /maʊnd/

  1. a large pile or heap of earth, stones, leaves, etc. like a small hill
  2. the most primordial technique

We will be sharing our impressions of our two-week collaboration while thinking and being with the mounds, heaps and holes of Paris. Mounds, heaps, and piles, and their complements, pits, holes and depressions, are the most primordial form of technique or technology. Accumulations make possible new materialities, affordances, and interactions. The making of concentrations in space is a condition for the evolution of life, and all of ecology can be described as moving and reshuffling piles of things. The mound, heap, or pile, is also an epistemological object: it is an archive. We will be approaching ‘large piles of something’ both with field work practices from both ecological and artistic perspectives. We start with finding and mapping specific mounds, writing field notes, perhaps making our own mound. In the process we will be asking questions from the mounds: what kind of knowledge are you an archive of? What kind of movements are you holding? How did you get here? How would you make me part of you?.

 

> Moderator : Annick Bureaud

> Drinks and snacks after the presentations (COVID 19 situation permitting)

> Audience announcements during the break (with registration)

 

Programme created by Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info), LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendez-vous, www.leonardo.info/laser) is a sharing of experiences around art-science projects in semi-formal meetings, outside the institutional framework.

 

LASER Paris is co-organized by Leonardo/Olats and La Diagonale Paris-Saclay (http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr), in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts (https://www.citedesartsparis.net/, the TEAMeD Research Team (https://teamed.univ-paris8.fr/) of the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and the ArTeC University Research School (https://eur-artec.fr/), with the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (https://www.fondationcarasso.org/), the program Investissements d’Avenir and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union for the project «Roots and Seeds XXI.

 

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