In solidarity and in common, In solidum is the principle of mutual responsibility that prevails in the management of the collective, so typical of the Haut-JuraThis is where the cooperative system of the fruitières was born. A mutualization of the benefits of nature as well as of its hazards, which reminds us of our collective responsibility towards it, and of the indefectible interdependence of humans and their natural environments, and the need to act together today to protect them.

Accompanied by COAL, a cultural actor referent of the meeting of art and ecology, the Haut-Jura Regional Natural Park launches Nature in solidum, an artistic approach to the development of its territory. Through residencies and artistic commissions, the Park and its municipalities intend to address the major ecological issues in a different way that the Haut-Jura must face, such as the protection of biodiversity, the erosion of sensitive natural environments, the quality of water resources, the impacts of climate change, the implementation of renewable energies, sustainable forestry management, or local and circular economies, and collaborative and citizen lifestyles.

This artistic approach engages to become aware in a different way of the changes that the territories undergo in order to better act on their transformations, and contribute to a better conciliation of the uses within the natural environments. This program values the grandeur of nature as well as the strength of the collective and is conceived as a participative approach federating artists, communities, companies and local actors. It participates in the local social and economic life and will be able to rely on the resources, materials and know-how of the Haut-Jura, thus reinforcing the ecological awareness of the users and residents of the territory while proposing experiments and new solutions.

This program is meant to be open: it is enriched, year by year, by new calls for artistic projects in different communes of the Haut-Jura Regional Natural Park.

In 2019, three artists are welcomed in residence in the communes of Jeurre, La Pesse and Avignon-les-Saint-Claude. Uwork of art in the public space is realized in the city of MOREZ.

A collective exhibition at the Fraternelle – Maison du Peuple in Saint Claude is organized from September 26 to October 31, 2020 to show the work of the artists.

This program is designed with the financial support of the municipalities concerned, the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Region and the Leader Haut-Jura program. They benefit from the advice and the artistic follow-up of the DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and of COAL.

THE SELECTED ARTISTS

The artists Baptiste Carluy, Romain BarthélémyMathieu Ghezzi, Odysseas Yiannikouris and Alessandra Monarcha, selected for the Nature in Solidum begin their residencies in the communes of Jeurre, La Pesse and Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude, to confront, during one year, crucial stakes of the territory such as: the pollution of the Bienne, the forestry management and the energy transition.

THREE RESIDENCES, THREE COMMUNITIES, THREE THEMES

Baptiste Carluy, in residence in the town of Jeurre around the pollution of the Bienne

Originally from the North of France, Baptiste Carluy, devotes himself to poetically restoring his daily environment through the medium of painting. During his studies at the Villa Arson in Nice, he developed artistically in the specific context of this school linked to the history of the Supports/Surfaces movement, but also by indulging in the practice of no-kill fishing, a method of fishing in which fish are systematically released without being killed. On the occasion of his artistic residency, Baptiste Carluy proposes to enter the subject through an approach that mixes his pictorial practice with the practice of fishing. By showing in his art, both what is concretely found in the waters of the Bienne – namely a pollution linked to industry and domestic waste, and a fragile fauna and flora – and the part of imagination and fantasy that they convey.

For more information: baptistecarluy.com

Exhibition view, Pêche à vue , Jeurre, 2019 © Baptiste Carluy

Biffin orpailleur (feat Iommy Sanchez) – Details © Baptiste Carluy 2019

Jeurre is located at the confluence of the Bienne and Héria rivers. Since the 18th century, the Biel basin has experienced a very important industrial development which is the source of metallic and organic micropollutants discharges in the wastewater treatment plants and in the river. Other potential sources of contamination such as economic activities outside of industry, domestic discharges, agricultural activities, and former landfills contribute to the degradation of water quality. For nearly 20 years, the Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park has been working with companies in the watershed, municipalities and their inhabitants to understand and solve these pollution problems. This artistic residency aims to contribute to a better understanding and readability of this common responsibility.

Romain Barthélémy and Mathieu Ghezzi, in residence at La Pesse, on the adaptation of forest management to climate change

Born from the meeting between a sound artist and an urban planner, the Parisian duo Romain Barthélémy and Mathieu Ghezzi are interested in sound as a marker of a territory. Romain Barthélémy is a composer and sound designer, who was introduced to sound art during his studies. Trained in music composition and electroacoustics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and at the Conservatoire Jules Massenet, he graduated in 2013 from the ESBA TALM IRCAM Master of Sound Design. Mathieu Ghezzi is an urban planner, in charge of urban programming and consultation at the Agence Ville Ouverte, where he works on urban projects for various communities. His work allows him to intervene in multidisciplinary teams at different scales, both local and metropolitan. More information : romainbarthelemy.com

In La Pesse, the artists in residence Romain Barthélémy and Mathieu Ghezzi work on the evolution of the sound landscape of the Jura forest. Following the work of the bio-acoustician Bernie Krause and the experimental music composers of the second half of the 20th century, their research focuses on the analysis of the structure of soundscapes as well as their recomposition under the influence of various anthropic factors (forest management, tourist and economic activities, global warming…).

Since the beginning of their residency in June 2019, the two artists have met and exchanged with several actors of the Jura forest (forest rangers, managers of the regional natural park, wood craftsmen, associative and economic actors, inhabitants, artists…) and made several hours of sound recordings of the Pesserand forest environment and the activities associated with it. The two residents have also solicited the help of residents to collect more than thirty speakers of all kinds that will form the basis of a multi-channel sound installation

Romain Barthélémy, Mathieu Ghezzi

The forest occupies a central place in the Haut-Jura in general and in the commune of La Pesse in particular. The communal forests are managed according to the principle of the “planted forest” based on a very fine management of the wood harvest, called “foot to foot”. This management method is ancient and representative of the Haut-Jura forestry. It encourages a balance favorable to a very specific biodiversity. However, this management method will have to deal in the future with the potential impacts of climate change on the nature and distribution of wood species. During this residency, the artist will meet with agents of the ONF and the Park to understand and promote the art of the planted forest and the wood resources of the Haut-Jura.

Odysseas Yiannikouris and Alessandra Monarcha, in residence in Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude around the energy transition

Odysseas Yiannikouris and Alessandra Monarcha are architects, urban planners and visual artists, based in Marseille. In 2017-2018, on the occasion of Odysseas’ residency at the French Academy in Rome-Villa Medici, their collaboration is perpetuated around the invention of an approach that plays at the margins of several disciplinary fields and freely uses writing, drawing, photography, video, model and installation, as so many correlated elements of production of meaning. Their commitment to ecology is rooted in an active and emergent culture of understanding interactions. Their particular point of view is based on two themes that link them to this current of thought: the hybridity of identity, and the link between violence, politics, and Nature For more information: odysseasyiannikouris.com

Their project, theHacienda d’Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude, is therefore a solar initiative creating an artistic narrative, witnessing the local history of energy and the territory. Three dimensions particularly guided the artists’ project: energy savings, local production of renewable energies and the involvement of all to take up this immense challenge. The artists immersed themselves in the local climate by surveying the territory, talking to the Pontringus people through letters they sent, and creating different local experiences that put into play our collective relationship to energy.

Installation, October 2019 © Odysseas Yiannikouris and Alessandra Monarcha

Installation Final Banquet, Mars 2020 © Odysseas Yiannikouris and Alessandra Monarcha

The energy transition, currently implemented by the territories, has become a major concern and an urgent necessity in view of the current climate changes. By 2050, locally, the challenges of this energy transition are twofold: a reduction in energy needs and consumption of at least 50%, and energy production from local resources, covering the remaining needs. The residence in Avignon, the sunniest commune of the Haut-Jura and strongly committed to this approach, will thus focus on the need to share the challenges of the transition in three dimensions: energy savings, local production of renewable energies and the involvement of all to meet this immense challenge.

A WORK IN THE PUBLIC SPACE IN MOREZ

Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves realizes a work in the public space of the city of Morez.

Morez, like the small towns in the middle of the mountains, is now facing the devitalization of its territory. “Cold”, “gloomy” and “recessed”, Morez offers an architectural, urban and social picture of a medium-sized mountain area negotiating its transition to an increasingly globalized economy, and less and less dependent on local resources. The sun, the light, the luminosity of the places where we live have become an essential criterion in these residential choices. The lack of light (or what is experienced as such) thus becomes a leitmotiv of the city’s policy, which carries out actions of “landscape clearing” for the benefit of neighborhoods with the least amount of sunlight. This original policy of access to light, little taken into account in the current reflections of the energy transition will be the center of the artistic reflection. It could be combined with the evocation of optical techniques, linked to the history of the city and its current development.

Realization of in-situ solar tests from the roof of the Eperon building overlooking the city of Morez

Photo credits: 500 soli – photo © Claire Lavabre; Trout of the Besbre n°1 80x30cm 2019 – painting © Baptiste Carluy; Project of landscape plan-guide of the Pays Haut Val d’Alzette, listening to the great landscape – photo © M. Ghezzi

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After being exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Cumulus Subterraneus by the Sols Fictions institute, supported by COAL and the Chaoïde collective and represented by the artists Yesenia Thibault-Picazo and Anaïs Tondeur, will be presented at Le Bourget on October 13 and 14 during KM4, an event organized for the launch of the work on line 16 of the Grand Paris Express!

Cumulus Subterraneus is a creative and participative investigation led for a year by a collective of artists, designers, scientists and curators on the lands of Seine Saint Denis to accompany and share the construction site of the Grand Paris Express with its residents. The first stage which took place in Le Bourget with the participation of the children of the Jean Mermoz school is presented during KM4.

In 1952, the cloud chaser Roberta Jensen discovered a mysterious phenomenon in the underground of Seine-Saint-Denis. On the occasion of the Greater Paris construction sites, the Sols Fictions Institute resumes its investigation on the traces of the Cumulus Subterraneus, a meteorological event unknown until now. A group of explorers made up of scientists and artists set out on its tracks and invited the inhabitants, like tornado hunters, to track this phenomenon, follow its tracks to get as close as possible, make contact with it, even capture it. Their method of investigation is that of the tracker, borrowing his tools, his vocabulary and his techniques.

This investigation on the traces of the “Cumulus Subterraneus” is deployed from sites of the construction site of the Grand Paris Express associating schoolchildren and inhabitants at the edge of the fiction and the geological specificities of the subsoil of Seine-Saint-Denis. At the crossroads of art and science, through a series of installations, performances, workshops, videos, texts and objects, between fiction and experimentation, Cumulus Subterraneus proposes a new poetic approach to life under the ground at the time of the Grand Paris Express and the Anthropocene.

The Sols Fictions Institute is supported by COAL and the Collectif Chaoïde, within the framework of the Chantiers Partagés de la Société du Grand Paris, under the artistic direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès of the Cent-quatre Paris.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

KM4
October 13, 2018, 4-10 p.m.
2pm October 2018, 2pm-6pm

Rue de Verdun
93120 La Courneuve

Access : RER B – Le Bourget

+ More info HERE

Photo credits: ©Yesenia Thibault-Picazo
Map: ©Grand Paris Express Company

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Born from the initiative of the Sundgau region in 2015, STUWA, the Sundgau Art and Nature trail, is strong of 23 works spread over a territory federating 108 communes, STUWA is distinguished not only by its specific participative method which associates communes, inhabitants and artists, but also by the popular success of this contemporary art approach in rural areas. The success of its attendance from the first year, the creation of works associated with the route by other actors of the territory, and the renewed will of the communes to perpetuate the presence of the works confirm the anchoring of STUWA on the territory.

For this fourth edition, STUWA is reinforced by an international opening in an inspiring dialogue with Denmark. Six artists, including two Danes, were invited this year to explore the theme of energy: an essential issue for this Positive Energy Territory for Green Growth.

Five works, selected by the municipalities under the artistic direction of COAL, explore the various facets of energy.

Charlene Chemin, Tocsin de l’écologie, 2018 © Marion’Photography

The wind has particularly inspired the artists. Vindblikket, the installation by Danish Mathias Bank and Studio Bastark attempts to capture its invisible force and its interactions with its environment. Wendfàwrek by Jonathan Naas stages an absurd perpetual cycle between a wind turbine and a fan trying to power each other. Finally, Elemental, the poetic installation by Laurent Gongora, twirls under the effect of gusts of wind and pays tribute to the driving forces of nature.

Energy is also revealed figuratively, in the collective ardor, which pushes to action. Charlène Chemin’s “Le tocsin de l’écologie ” invites young and old to gather around a bell to sound the climate alert.

Finally, the fifth work, by Stéphane Ruch, selected by the municipality of Durmenach, invites to combine collective energy and green energy by the realization of The Common Flame, a luminous sculpture in the public space powered by communal waste.

Jonathan Naas, Wendfàwrek, 2018 © Marion’Photography

STUWA – Sundgau Art and Nature Trail

The Stuwa was the living room of the traditional Sundgauian house. It is in this place of gathering and exchange that the language, the stories, the history and the cuisine, in short the culture of the territory, was forged and shared.

The Art and Nature trail in the Sundgau, which takes its name, proposes to generalize the exchanges between the inhabitants and the visitors. The works of art of this annual journey become so many collective Stuwa, which reflect the cultural and geographical wealth of the territory. The imagination of artists gives nature a new dimension, at a time when questions of sustainable development and ecology have become crucial for the future. Each work participates in the renewal of our view of the environment, nature and the strength of local identity, thanks to the sensitive and original interpretation of the Sundgau territory by the invited artists.

By creating STUWA, a contemporary art trail in its villages, the Sundgau renews its reflection on the landscape, ecology, public space and local life by drawing on its history to look creatively to the future.

Laurent Gongora, Elemental, 2018 © Marion’Photography

The works of STUWA 2018

Vindblikket, Mathias Bank & Studio Bastark, Hirtzbach
The tocsin of ecology, Charlène Chemin, Hagenbach
Elemental, Laurent Gongora, Durmenach
Wendfàwrek, Jonathan Naas, Illtal
The Common Flame, Stéphane Ruch, Durmenach, work invited by the commune of Durmenach

Opening on June 3, 2018

The new works will be unveiled on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Visitors will be able to sign up for Stuwa Circus IV, a bus tour to discover the works. Each stage will be an opportunity to meet the artists around a festive moment animated by each participating commune. The departure will be from Altkirch station at 8:45 am for a return around 7:15 pm.

L’article STUWA 2018 est apparu en premier sur COAL.

Cumulus Subterraneus, is a creative and participative investigation about soils, conducted for a year by COAL and artists, designers and scientists of the Chaoïde collective on the lands of Greater Paris to accompany and share the construction site of the Grand Paris Express with its residents. This project is developed within the framework of the Chantiers Partagés of the Société du Grand Paris, under the artistic direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès and the 104. The team and methodology of the Soil Fictions Institute, was born from a first survey initiated by COAL within the Laboratory of Sustainable Culture on the theme of soils, in 2015.

At the crossroads of art and science, through a series of installations, performances, workshops, videos, texts and objects, between fiction and experimentation, Cumulus Subterraneus proposes a new poetic approach to life under the ground at the time of the Grand Paris Express and the Anthropocene.

CUMULUS SUBTERRANEUS, INVESTIGATION ON THE TRACES OF AN UNDERGROUND METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON

In 1952, the storm chaser Roberta Jensen discovered a mysterious phenomenon in the underground of Seine-Saint-Denis.

On the occasion of the Greater Paris construction sites, the Sols Fictions Institute resumes its investigation on the traces of the Cumulus Subterraneus, a previously unknown underground meteorological event. A group of explorers made up of scientists and artists set out on its tracks and invited the inhabitants, like tornado hunters, to track this phenomenon, follow its tracks to get as close as possible, make contact with it, even capture it. Their method of investigation is that of the tracker, borrowing his tools, his vocabulary and his techniques.

The investigation began in January 2018 on Le Bourget, where Roberta Jensen had spotted traces of the phenomenon, by a series of workshops with the Jean Mermoz school group, then will extend throughout 2018 in the North-East of Paris, following the trajectory of Cumulus Subterraneus.

A PROGRAM OF SHARED WORK SITES

This project is developed by the Sols Fictions Institute, a collective composed of COAL and the Chaoide collective within the framework of the Chantiers Partagés of the Société du Grand Paris, under the artistic direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès and the 104.

It unfolds from sites of the Grand Paris Express construction site, associating schoolchildren and inhabitants on the edge of fiction and the geological specificities of the subsoil of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Follow the progress of the investigation on : institut-sols-fictions.org

Find the photographs of the different workshops on : www.facebook.com

Discover the Société du Grand Paris’ shared work sites: www.culture-grandparisexpress.fr

Cumulus Subterraneus, Institut Sols Fictions, 2018 ©Yesenia Thibault-Picazo /Anaïs Tondeur

L’article Soil Fictions Institute : Cumulus Subterraneus est apparu en premier sur COAL.

Born from the initiative of the Sundgau region in 2015, STUWA, the Sundgau Art and Nature trail, already brings together 16 works spread over a territory federating 108 municipalities. STUWA is distinguished not only by its specific participative method which associates communes, inhabitants and artists, but also by the popular success of this contemporary art approach in rural areas. The success of its attendance from the first year, the creation of works associated with the route by other actors of the territory, and the renewed will of the communes to perpetuate the presence of the works confirms the anchoring of STUWA on the territory.

Six works, selected by the municipalities under the artistic direction of COAL, explore the various facets of mobility. Thus the driving forces of nature, and especially the wind, are shown in the installation in motion Flow / For the wind of Olivier Nattes, while the Bascule (Wald) by Marion Orfila defies the laws of gravity by presenting a piece of uprooted landscape, frozen in balance on the surface of the ground. In contrast, Pauline Toyer’s Point Zero, a limestone hemicycle dug into the ground, reveals the cycle of matter and local resources, while interacting with the topography of the place.

But mobility is above all about displacement and reference to travel. Whether we are talking about past and future soft mobility, such as the futuristic vehicle Centipede of the HeHe duo, whose immobility is reminiscent of the disappearance of country trains; or that we address the burning issue of Migrationthrough the installation by the Saprophyhtes of giant nests where one would be rather tempted to look for those of the storks. Finally, mobility becomes a process with the work Jusqu’à rompre: Julien Fargetton makes a rope with the textiles given throughout his journey in the Sundgau. It is a way of reminding people that mobility is above all a vector of conviviality that allows people to bond.

A seventh work has been entrusted to the Conseil de Développement du Sundgau, which has invited Sébastien Haller, a Sundgau artist, to create an animal work for the Maison de la Nature in Altenach.

Flux / For the wind by Olivier Nattes in Heidwiller

This light and airy work is both a sculpture and a device. Flux / Pour le vent constitutes a tubular shelter in which one can enter, thus cutting oneself off from the surrounding landscape. The idea is to stage two natural forces, gravity and wind, and to bring them into dialogue with each other through a form. The fabric moves under the effect of the gravity which is exerted on him and the contradictory force of the wind which opposes it. Through this poetic device, Olivier Nattes makes visible this play of forces and opposition. The resulting form is never really the same: this sculpture thus evokes the impermanent character of the elements and phenomena that surround us.

Point Zero by Pauline Toyer in Seppois-le-Haut, and exhibition of the artist in the village chapel

Point Zero is a point between the sky and the earth, whose subtractive form and negative volume do not clash with the fullness of the landscape. Unlike constructions that think in terms of elevation, Point Zero is a hole below the horizon. It is also a reference to the mining and stone quarries, such as the one in Durlinsdorf from which the limestone in the work comes. Quarries remind us that all construction is done by removing material from the ground.

HeHe’s Centipede in Werentzhouse

Centipede is an alternative mode of transportation, a vehicle that merges an artistic vision of social locomotion with a rural revitalization dimension linked to the history of the place. Originally planned to run on rails and transport visitors, Centipèdefollows the disappearance of the railway line between Altkirch and Ferrette. Exhibited in the public space, Centipede becomes the sculpture of a vehicle that crosses space and time. The work shapes a future reviving the past of a territory, bringing it out of a temporal immobility while reinventing a common mobility.

Bascule (Wald) by Marion Orfila in Pfetterhouse

Bascule (Wald) is immobile in a position contrary to the logical distribution of the visible elements of this landscape: the grassy part sinks while the forest rises up. This leads the visitor to question the masses and forces at work, both underlying and invisible. This upside down landscape seems to lift itself, as if freed from its gravity.

Until you break by Julien Fargetton at the Maison de la Nature in Altenach, and demonstration of how to make a rope

Julien Fargetton is inspired by the strong textile tradition of the region. In the 17th century, Alsatian hemp was a strategic material used to make ropes and sails for ships to control maritime routes. While the war of the chion rages in Sundgau: the ragpickers make contraband in order to resell their goods more expensive in Germany or in Switzerland for the manufacture of paper. Equipped with a trailer and rope-making equipment, he collected hemp fibers and colored fabric shreds from children in youth centers and wove them together with the children until a rope was made.

Saprophyte migrations in Obermorschwiller

Natural object known to all, the nest is reinterpreted in an inhabited context. Beyond an echo to the specific bird species of the region, the nest is above all a reference to travel, to migration: that of birds but also that of men. The nest also embodies a habitat, a refuge, a home. It evokes an appropriate place, a comfort, the family… A paradoxical reading, therefore: between home and itinerancy, between home and migration. It evokes with sweetness and poetry the current question of a struggle: can we still migrate?

INAUGURATION OF THE STUWA ART AND NATURE TRAIL, SUNDAY JUNE 4, 2017
In the presence of the artists, COAL, sponsors and partners.

Visitors will be able to sign up for “Stuwa Circus III”, a bus tour to discover the works. Each stage will be an opportunity to meet the artists around a festive moment animated by each participating commune. The departure will be from Illfurth station at 8:30 am for a return around 7 pm.

The works in the 2017 STUWA tour are on view through 2020.
For more information: www.stuwa.fr

L’article Opening of STUWA 2017 est apparu en premier sur COAL.

STUWA – Sundgau Art and Nature Trail

The Stuwa was the living room of the traditional Sundgauian house.
It is in this place of gathering and exchange that the language, the stories, the history and the cuisine, in short the culture of the territory, was forged and shared.
The Art and Nature trail in the Sundgau, which takes its name, proposes to generalize the exchanges between the inhabitants and the visitors. The works of art along the route thus become so many collective Stuwa, which reflect the cultural and geographical richness of the territory. The imagination of artists gives nature a new and wonderful dimension, at a time when questions of sustainable development and ecology have become crucial for the future. Each work participates in the renewal of our view of the environment, nature and the strength of the local identity, thanks to the sensitive and original interpretation of the Sundgau territory by the invited artists.

By creating STUWA in 2015, a contemporary art trail in its villages, the Sundgau is renewing its thinking on landscape, ecology, public space and local life by drawing on its history to look creatively to the future. For the 2015 edition of STUWA, seven unpublished works by regional and national artists have taken over seven villages in the Sundgau.
In 2016, STUWA replicates this same principle in seven new communities willing to host as many works of art to discover the Sundgau landscapes through the themes of water, living together, sustainable construction and local heritage.

In Ueberstrass, Guillaume Barth calls on the avian diversity of the Sundgau and the need to protect it by equipping the lime tree of the Jean-Baptiste chapel with braided nesting boxes; while Gilles Bruni carries out a residence of interpretation of the landscape and the local culture with the inhabitants of the commune of Bisel from which its Observatories. The badger’s throat d’Aram Kebabdjian and Stéfane Perraud gives a voice to the well of Tagsdorf; the Butterfly from Julie Navarro is inspired by the history of the textile industry in the town of Waldighoffen by the creation of an allegorical work, a futuristic greenhouse which is built with the landscape; in Hirsingue, The New Neighbors revisit traditional Alsatian architecture, suggesting less polluting construction methods. Finally, the Cabane à histoires co-constructed by Thierry Payet recalls the cultural and natural heritage of Bernwiller and the delicate landscape composition Roselière by Sophie Roux-Pagès, underlines the progressive disappearance of the latter in our regions, impacting the natural filtration of water and the development of biodiversity.

THE WORKS OF STUWA 2016

Nesting boxes of the Grand Tilleul by Guillaume Barth, Ueberstrass
Observatories of Gilles Bruni, Bisel
The throat of the badger by Aram Kebabdjian and Stéfane Perraud, Tagsdorf
Butterfly by Julie Navarro, Waldighoffen
Gemütlichkeit, New Neighbors, Hirsingue
Thierry Payet’s story hut, Bernwiller
Rosebush of Sophie Roux-Pagès, Heidwiller

Complementary cultural actions by the actors of the territory

> Creation of the landscape garden of the Jean-Jacques Henner House in Bernwiller, in association with the artist Thierry Boutonnier who imagined the work Anthropo-cène.
> Inauguration of the work of the Cercle des mécènes du Sundgau, Veraltet Veraltet, a creation by Paul Souviron in Wolschwiller.

INAUGURATION OF THE STUWA ART AND NATURE TRAIL, SUNDAY JUNE 5, 2016

Visitors will be able to take part in the STUWA CIRCUS II, departing from the Altkirch train station, from 8:45 am to 9 pm, allowing them to discover the works of art by bus from village to village, on a 110 km route. Cultural events will be held at each site.

Reservations required by June 1, 2016 at: info@pays-sundgau.fr

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Artists: François Génot, Suzanne Husky, Frédéric Keiff, SAFI, Elodie Stephan, Anne Zimmermann.
Artistic direction: COAL

The Stuwa was the living room of the traditional Sundgauian house. It was in this place of gathering and exchange that the language, stories, history and cuisine – in short, the culture of the territory – were forged and shared.
The course proposes that each work of art becomes a place of exchange and reflection, like public Stuwa.
The imagination of artists gives a new wonderful dimension to nature, at a time when the issues of sustainable development and ecology have become crucial for the future. Each work participates in the renewal of our view of the environment and local identity, thanks to the sensitive and original interpretation of the Sundgau territory by the invited artists.

For this first edition, the elected officials of the seven Communities of Communes of the Sundgau with voluntary referents of the local population have chosen the artistic projects to be realized in their Commune. These artworks are from a selection of local and national artists suggested by the curator COAL.
François Génot, Suzanne Husky, Fréderic Keiff, SAFI, Élodie Stephan and Anne Zimmermann were able to win over the elected officials and inhabitants of the villages of Ferrette, Seppois-le-Bas, Hirtzbach, Jettingen, Illfurth, Chavannes-sur-l’Etang, and Muespach-le-Haut respectively.
Together, they inaugurate on June 7 and maintain seven unpublished works for several months to reveal the wonderful nature of the Sundgau.

The artists, hosted and housed by the inhabitants, built their interventions by immersing themselves in the territory. Elected officials, local referents, villagers, communal or inter-communal workers and local artisans participated in the installation of the works. This course is dedicated to plants and biodiversity. In this habitat, each work is a moment of sharing with the public.

The Sundgau region
In 2008, the association of the Sundgau region carried out its first cultural expertise. In this report, the contours of a cultural and artistic policy on the scale of the Sundgau are outlined. The setting up of large-scale cultural events is one of the avenues being explored. In 2012, the tourism audit conducted following the merger of the Tourist Offices revealed in its action plan the desire to install outdoor artworks to strengthen the cultural and tourist identity of the territory. In 2014, the Syndicat Mixte pour le Sundgau, composed of 112 Mayors and 7 Presidents of Communities of Communes, unanimously approved to carry this project and acted a political will to develop Contemporary Art on the Territory. The elected officials wishing to capitalize on the landscape assets of the Sundgau, chose the theme “wonderful nature”. The artistic project is conceived in partnership with the Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines de Strasbourg.

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François Génot, XYLO, 2015

Anne Zimmermann, Radeau, 2015

Suzanne Husky, Bogue, 2015

SAFI, Soundscape Observatory, 2015 – © Estelle Pierson

Elodie Stephan, Butin, 2015

Frédéric Keiff, Arboat, 2013

Suzanne Husky, Plant Alcoves, 2015

Graphic design : Overblitz

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COAL and the Domaine départemental de Chamarande invite you to meet on Sunday, October 11, 2015 from 2:30 to 5:30 pm to celebrate art and science and inaugurate the first laboratory dedicated to sustainable culture!

This day of discovery as part of the 2015 Fête de la Science will be the occasion to inaugurate the Sustainable Culture Laboratory. COAL and the Domaine invite artists, scientists and innovators from the environmental field to explore and respond together to the major challenges of tomorrow’s world.

The Laboratory of Sustainable Culture

The Domaine de Chamarande in Essonne is a place of life and experimentation of sustainable culture. Chamarande has become a place where the work of all those involved in sustainable culture (artists, designers, cultural project managers, scientists, researchers in the humanities, journalists, etc.) is welcomed and disseminated. The creation of the LAB, the sustainable culture laboratory, is a new step in this site project.

The Laboratory of Sustainable Culture is a new proposal that aims to identify, experiment and think about actions and works that bring into play the transformation of the uses of public space, initiate new social and economic relationships and integrate ecological issues by changing our representations.

This research and experimentation program, dedicated to an annual theme, brings together artists, scientists from the natural sciences and scientists from the humanities, under the direction of a senior researcher to make the link between the different approaches in order to build and propose to the public, together, a global perception of environmental issues.

Laboratory of sustainable culture covers and animates all the artistic experiments carried out on the Domaine de Chamarande since 2012 and its new site project implemented with COAL around sustainable culture. It accompanies experiments in progress (Living on the edge of Liliana Motta, the Garden Forest of Astrid Verspieren, the hammock tables of Encore Heureux and the picnic tables of Cédric Carles and Marie Broussard, Gilles Bruni …) and launches new experiments around the selected themes, starting in 2015 with the theme of soils as part of the international year of soils.

The Laboratory of Sustainable Culture and its new soil theme is inaugurated in collaboration with two artists, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo and Anaïs Tondeur, and three scientists, Marine Legrand, Germain Meulemans and Alan Vergnes. It is sponsored by Nathalie Blanc, geographer associated with the Laboratoire des Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS).

Soils – 2015-2016 research theme

Soils have long been considered as an inexhaustible production medium. However, it is a fragile and non-renewable heritage on a human scale. A complex, living and organized ecosystem, the soil fulfills systemic functions: it produces food, fiber and energy; it regulates water flows and quality; it recycles exogenous organic matter, which contributes to carbon storage, to the provision of nutrients and to the regulation of greenhouse gases and climate change; the soil is also the living environment of many animal and plant species, the support of landscapes and a genetic reserve (many antibiotics are produced by soil fungi). Beyond its ecosystemic qualities, the soil also has a strong cultural and social significance: it is the support of human activities, the environment of conservation of archaeological remains and memory of past climatic and biological conditions, a source of building materials, fuels, ores, pigments….

The year 2015 has been designated the International Year of Soils by the FAO – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

PROGRAM FOR SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, 2015

> 14h30-15h30 / Coffee-debate: soils, 1st experiments of the Laboratory of sustainable culture

Let’s meet with COAL and Nathalie Blanc, geographer associated with the Laboratoire des Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS), around the artists Yesenia Thibault-Picazo and Anaïs Tondeur and the scientists Marine Legrand, Germain Meulemans and Alan Vergnes to talk about the first experiments carried out on the soils of the Domaine; and meet the landscape artist Liliana Motta on the project of differentiated management Living on the Edge launched in 2013.
Meeting at the castle

> 15h30-16h30 / Workshop-meeting : the fight for land use in Essonne
Attend the restitution of the residency Mission EROS (Escadrille de Reconnaissance et d’Observation Sensible) led in Essonne by the collective COLOCO, and exchange with Pablo Georgieff, landscape architect and founder of COLOCO, on the transformations of the rural/urban landscape and the stakes of territories in a department in full mutation.
Meeting at the castle

> 16h30-17h30 / Soil study: the history under our feet
Join a team of geologists and ecologists in analyzing the Domaine’s soils around a pedological pit; then study the functioning of an anthill to better understand how our activities affect the soil…
Meeting at the castle

> 12h-18h / Exhibition: nature of soils
Discover with the artists Yesenia Thibault-Picazo and Anaïs Tondeur the installations they have imagined inspired by the elements that make up the soil of our Earth.
Meeting at the auditorium

> 12h-18h / Archives : history of lands
Consult old documents, preserved in the Essonne Departmental Archives, on the history of the Chamarande Estate and related to the evolution of its land parcels.
Meeting at the auditorium

Image: © Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, Car Fossil – In 2014 – 89.75 Million cars produced worldwide

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The Sundgau, in the south of Alsace, is a rural border territory with an undulating landscape, between forests, ponds, fields and villages. Endowed with a very strong and specific local identity, the territory explores the theme of the marvelous nature in all its cultural and tourist actions.

The Syndicat Mixte du Sundgau and its seven communities of communes wished to develop a contemporary art trail on their territory. A rare and daring choice of cultural policy. The association COAL, art and sustainable development, was commissioned to accompany the first two editions of this initiative. Its objective is to present works in the villages of the Sundgau to initiate a reflection on the landscape, ecology, public space and local life. Loïc Fel and Lauranne Germond of COAL will curate the exhibition, favoring local artists, participatory works and local mediation.

Mixed Syndicate for the Sundgau
39 Avenue du 8E Régiment de Hussards
68130 Altkirch

More information soon on www.pays-sundgau.fr

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