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L’article THE SOUND WORLDS OF THE OCEAN – WITH THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF BRETAGNE est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In the French Pavilion, artists committed to ecology, nominated and awarded the COAL Art and Ecology Prize, present their projects as ways to reweave our sensitivity to life, to rethink our relationship with the environment, to be attentive to other forms of life, to renew our images and our collective imaginations, to invent new paradigms and other ways of being in the world All these artists testify, imagine, experiment and work for a world more respectful of the living and the ecological balance. An event in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the French Office of Biodiversity with the intervention of Pierre Dubreuil, Director General of the OFB or his representative.

Highlight COAL on the French Pavilion
Pavillon France – Parc Chanot, Marseille
September 6, 2021, 2pm – 2:30pm
Free admission

Image credit: Paul Duncombe, Manicouagan, 2015-2020. Satellite imagery © 2020 Planet for the Planet, Skysat, and RapidEye

L’article COAL highlight on the French Pavilion of the IUCN World Conservation Congress – VIVANT season est apparu en premier sur COAL.

To celebrate the closing of VIVANT, a Cultural Season for Biodiversity and the 2020-2021 edition of CHRONICLES, Biennial of Digital Imaginations on the theme of Eternity, COAL joins CHRONICLES for a day of meetings in the heart of the living.

MARSEILLE – ONLINE

If the theme of eternity was that of religion and then that of the modern dream, it has now become inseparable from ecology. At the time of the sixth mass extinction, the question arises as to the sustainability of our existence and of life on Earth, whose great cycles once seemed eternal.

These questions of interrupted cycles, losses and collapses of the living are found in the artists’ works. At the heart of artistic fiction abound new worlds, new relationships between men and machines, new temporalities to question eternity in the face of the obsolescence of technologies and, from now on, in the face of the obsolescence of the living itself.

At the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, the questions of the living and the perishable are more than ever linked. In collaboration with COAL, the magazine Billebaude and the European project T-FACTOR, the Biennial closes by giving voice to artists who rethink the link to life and the inter-species dialogue, the question of the collapse of life but also of its resilience, so that the question of eternity becomes that of the sustainable, of the viable and of the liveable.

PROGRAM
Follow the round tables live on Facebook Live

MORNING

10am-12pm ROUND TABLE

ONLINE

– The arts, the living and the city. Extension of the field of possibility.

With Caterina Taurelli – Curator at Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence; Colette Tron – La Friche la Belle de Mai – Director of Alphabetville, Marseille ; Lucas Evers, Head of Programme, Waag, Amsterdam ; Mick Finch, Professor of Visual Art Practice, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins.
Moderation: Karim Asry and Eva Riccio (T-factor project)

The research and actions of the European T-Factor project aim to understand and encourage the positive impact on our cities of emerging cultures that are born precisely in the ruins of post-industrial societies, to imagine better futures and to neutralize the dystopian tendencies that seem inevitable. It attempts to highlight initiatives that imagine new common futures by placing the artistic act and culture at the heart of the transformation of cities.

The conversation we propose involves four partner cities of the T-factor project: Marseille, Amsterdam, Florence and London. It will bring together the commonalities between these experiences of urban regeneration. Spaces can change their narratives through artistic research and we will ask whether this leads to a diversity of representations.

AFTERNOON

14h-15h30 ROUND TABLE

ONLINE

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Giving shape to the world that is coming: from fiction, imaginary worlds, narratives.

Around a great witness Sabrina Calvo and artists Stéfane Perraud, Eva Medin and Paul Duncombe
Moderation: Joan Pronnier (COAL)

If it has become “easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”, how can we imagine the world to come? And how to give substance to these imaginary worlds? Artists work to make palpable what we do not see, to work the substance of the virtual and to transform concepts into worlds. Between science and fiction, between reality and virtual: meeting with the ultra-sensitive and the infra-thin.

Available for replay

16h00-17h30 ROUND TABLE
ONLINE
– Reawakening our sensitivity to living things: from plants, landscapes, soils preceded by the presentation of the Revue Billebaude

Around a great witness Emanuele Coccia and the artists Elise Morin accompanied by the scientist Jacqui Shikoff Abdessamad El Montassir and Anthony Duchêne
Moderation: Anne de Malleray (Revue Billebaude)

We inherit a philosophy that affirms the exceptionality of humans in relation to the rest of nature. Faced with the ecological crisis, how can we think, imagine and feel beyond this rupture? How can we reweave theories, practices and imaginaries that make room for other living beings? This discussion is placed at the crossroads of philosophy, science and art, a privileged place to open spaces of theoretical and sensitive experimentation from this issue.

Available for replay

5:30 pm Performed conference

ONLINE

With Michael Cros around “UBM junior

ÜBM Junior is a mysterious electrical and vegetal creature the size of an infant. Installed in an incubator, this hybrid being awaits the time of care. How does he perceive his environment? What does it need to live? Let’s get closer…

EVENING

Show / Coexistence / Rocio Berenguer – Duration 1h – 18h –
ONLINE

Rocio Berenguer, LITHOSYS

What future for the human species? Far from the catastrophic scenarios portrayed by the media, Rocio Berenguer imagines a utopia, an inter-species meeting where the different kingdoms of life – human, animal, vegetable, mineral, machine – are invited to negotiate together the possibilities of their coexistence.

Coexistence is a poetic text written by Rocio Berenguer which is on the border of the concert, the theatrical text and the performance. A dialogue between a human and an artificial intelligence (AI) that evokes the possibilities of coexistence between the different kingdoms (animal, vegetable, mineral, human and machine)

Closing day on the living – COAL and the CHRONICLES Biennial
On Facebook Live
Broadcast from the Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
January 16, 2021, 10am-8pm

Front page image © CHRONICLES, Biennial of Digital Imaginaries imagined by SECOND NATURE | ZINC.

L’article Closing day on the Living – COAL and the Chronicles Biennial est apparu en premier sur COAL.

For this workshop “Short circuits / The local in the practices of musical creation”, are approached the questions of the models of short circuits, articulated with the stakes of the local engagement of the musical creation and the ecological impacts of our practices.
These are all particularly sensitive subjects since the upheaval of our first confinement, which has invited us to rethink our relationships between artists, audiences, organizers and political leaders. As we will see through the stories, examples and reflections brought by our guests, it is above all a question of dialoguing on the representations that we have of the systems of production of the musical creation, as well as the inheritances which shape us and which we transform, digest, reactivate, each one in our way…

Topics:

– Rethinking dissemination models and links between professionals
– To explore more and more varied relationships with the public, to make ourselves and them more active, to co-construct and/or act together
– Questioning our economic models and connecting with the citizen dimension (farmers’ relays, AMAP)
– Take charge, act in a field approach without waiting for it to come from above
– Draw inspiration from tried and tested approaches in other disciplines
– Do declarations, long-standing legacies, but also new specifications, and sometimes even selection criteria, change field practices?
– How do field practices interact with political intentions?
– The question of short circuits also implies thinking about the ecological impacts in artistic creation
– Developing a local action while keeping an international dimension: the current dilemma?
– How can you become part of the local fabric when you are presenting a creative project far from your home territory? The local relays, the preparation with the public on the spot, the impacts beyond the diffusion action.

Speakers:

Mathilde Bézard, Classical and Contemporary Music Officer, Department of Development and Artistic Cooperation at the French Institute

Julian Boutin, violist, member of the Bela quartet, creator of the festival Les nuits d’été

Michaël Dian, director of the cultural space of Chaillol, Arts en territoire / Hautes-Alpes, lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille on cultural policy issues

Loic Fel, philosopher, co-founder of COAL

Loïc Guénin, composer, musician, artistic director of the Phare à Lucioles and the M![lieu]

Stéphanie Guillemaud, Project Manager, Culture, Sports, Youth and Associations Department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region

Future compounds

L’article Loic Fel at the online workshop “Circuits courts / Le local dans les pratiques de création musicale est apparu en premier sur COAL.

What if, for the first time in Europe, a river had the opportunity to express itself and defend its interests through a system of interspecific representation?

Imagined as a constitutive process for the creation of a parliament of the river, this project aims at defining the forms and functioning of a parliament for a non-human entity (the Loire), where the fauna, the flora and the different material and immaterial components would be represented.

Led by the writer and jurist Camille de Toledo, the Commission for a Parliament of the Loire invites you to follow its investigative work through a series of hearings. These hearings put into action a collective research to imagine the potential institution of a river ecosystem and to involve in a reconfigured parliament the fauna, the flora, the sandbanks, the water masses and all the components of the Loire.

Listen to Conversation #1: How do we move toward cross-species institutions?

For the first telephone conversation of the Loire Parliament, Camille De Toledo brings together Antoine Conjard (Director of the Scène Nationale de l’Hexagone, Meylan), Marine Yzquierdo, Sylvia Lasfargeas, Samy Hamel, Nina Salaunlhelgoualch (lawyers, members of Notre Affaire à tous) and Jérémy Cheval (architect, teacher-researcher at the Ecole de l’Anthropocène in Lyon). Together, they discussed the possible replication of the Loire Parliament project outside the Loire region and the spread of the idea of nature as a legal subject. The census of jurisprudences, the implementation of a public service of the imagination and new tools of representation of the text of laws are as many tracks traced by our guests to think of a widened diffusion of the rights of nature.

Listening to the conversation#2: Experiences of communication between different species

Julie Cabot-Nadal (eco-psychologist), Emilie Barrier (psychologist, animal interpreter) and Serge Mang-Joubert (geomatics engineer, sylvotherapist) are invited by Pascal Ferren to share their experiences of interspecies communication. Listening, connection rituals, meditations, these practitioners share with the commission their tools to understand the languages of the living and the non-living.

Listening to the conversation#3: How do we design and produce forms without harming the balance of a natural system?

Bruno Marmiroli, a member of the Loire Parliament Commission, has invited specialists in “making”; Isabelle Daëron (designer), André Guillerme (technical historian), James Bouquard (landscape gardener) and Patrick Genty (gardener/landscape gardener) to reflect on the question that is on the minds of all those who, in their practices, produce forms and objects in the Loire area: how can we put in place protocols, ways of doing things, and gestures without damaging the equilibrium of the Loire system? Vernacular know-how and procedures for diverting public orders are some of the answers developed by the guests during this conversation.

Listen to the conversation #4: Artists in touch with life

Joan Pronier (member of COAL) invited the visual artists Rocio Berenguer (choreographer of the post Anthropocene), Thierry Boutonnier (visual artist claiming cooperation and interdependence with ecosystems in his practice) and Benoit Mangin (co-founding artist of the duo Art orienté objet) to share their experiences of collaboration and representation of the living. How do these sensitive experiences allow us to attach ourselves, to understand other behaviors than those of human beings? In what way are artists allies in this broadening of perception? Are they a particular voice for the representation of the living in a project such as a parliament of the Loire?

Listen to the conversation #5: ” Entrance to the Loire “.

Round-table discussion moderated by Virginie Serna with:- Zazü Art (Land Art artist) – Stéphane Rodrigues (university professor, University of Tours, river sedimentologist, specialist in the Loire, head of the Engineering of Aquatic Environments speciality of Polytech Tours – Damien Hémeray (curator of the National Nature Reserve of Saint-Mesmin)
Virginie Serna, archaeologist, chief curator of heritage, project manager at the Ministry of Culture and member of the commission invites three professionals from the Loire to discuss their ways of working with water. What are their ways of coming into contact with water? How to understand, quantify and qualify the water of the Loire and its beds?

Next meeting on Saturday, October 17, 2020 “Conflicts and negotiations between species

Review the previous hearings of the Parliament of the Loire :

• The hearings of the Parliament of the Loire : with Catherine Larrère
• The hearings of the Parliament of the Loire: the diary of conflicts by Virginie Serna
• The hearings of the Parliament of the Loire : Catherine Boisneau
• The hearings of the Parliament of the Loire : Jacques Leroy and Jean-Pierre Marguenaud
• The hearings of the Loire Parliament: Bruno Latour and Frédérique Aït Touati
• The hearings of the Loire Parliament: Virginie Serna and Bruno Marmiroli
• The hearings of the Parliament of the Loire : interview with Camille de Toledo

Because of the current context linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the commission for the creation of a parliament of the Loire and the POLAU-pôle arts & urbanisme re-invent their ways of working and propose a discussion space in the form of podcasts bringing together researchers, artists, environmental activists, cultural programmers.

A reference, a project, an idea? Contribute to the Parliament of the Loire HERE !
Featured image: © Photograph by Bruno Marmiroli
Image 1 : © Photographie A. Fluck-POLAU
Image 2 : © Photographie A. Fluck-POLAU
Image 3 : © Photographie A. Fluck-POLAU
Image 4: Poster, The Loire Parliament

L’article THE LOIRE PARLIAMENT HEARINGS – NEGOTIATING IN AN INTER-SPECIES CONTEXT est apparu en premier sur COAL.

For the exhibition “Les champs des possibles” the arTsenal has brought together 19 artists who have the planet and its inhabitants, animals, plants and humans, as their creative motor.

On the occasion of a special afternoon of art, environment and sustainable development, the arTsenal invited on Sunday October 11 Cyril Dion (writer, director, poet and environmental activist), Paul Ardenne (art historian, curator and writer) and Lauranne Germond (curator, director and co-founder of the association COAL) to question us on the porosity of these environments.

For more information:

ArTsenal website / Facebook

Featured Image Source: City of Dreux, Photographer: Jean Cardoso

L’article Cyril Dion, Paul Ardenne and Lauranne Germond – Meeting at the Artsenal est apparu en premier sur COAL.

AMBIVALENCES #1 (2020/2021) : ENVIRONMENTAL MUTATIONS

CHAPTER 1 : Art, environment and digital

Festival Maintenant – Rennes – Thursday, October 8, 2020

This first chapter will attempt to present a state of the art, digital and environment relations and to question their inter-relations. How is art in general and digital art in particular evolving in the face of the environmental crisis? How do artists deal with this reality and position themselves in relation to these issues? Can they contribute to awareness and encourage public and citizen action by positioning themselves as observers and defenders of living things?

16h30-18h00 (90′) – Round table “Digital arts and environmental awareness

This round-table discussion focused on the ambivalent and contemporary relationship of the artist to the environment, both ecological and technological, and more specifically on the role of digital arts in the awareness of the environmental crisis.

The conference is available in replay
HERE

Moderation:
Régine Debatty
Reporter, art critic and founder of we-make-money-not-art.com

Participants:

Régine Debatty we-make-money-not-art.com / Instagram / Twitter
Reporter, art critic (we-make-money-not-art.com)
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Claire Bardainne adrienm-claireb.net / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
Artist, artistic director (Adrien M & Claire B company)
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Loïc Fel projectcoal.org / Facebook
Doctor of Philosophy in Environment, co-founder of COAL
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Joanie Lemercier joanielemercier.com / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
Visual artist and environmental activist

EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT ON OUR SOCIETIES

In a society plagued by the resurgence and constancy of environmental, social, cultural, economic, political and sanitary crises, the digitization of our lives makes the reading and analysis of current mutations all the more complex. Starting from the premise that digital technology is not “neutral” and that it is appropriate to re-contextualize the work of artists and the place of art in relation to contemporary issues, the desire to explore the theme of ambivalence intersects with several reflections:

– Ambivalence of digital technology on the one hand, presented as a solution to various current problems or as intangible progress in itself (“technological solutionism”), without this necessarily being questioned, but leading to negative effects on various levels (environmental impact, privacy, disproportionate weight of certain actors, etc.) which must be questioned.

– Ambivalence of the digital art on the other hand and of its actors (of which we are), who contribute to make emerge critics while participating in a form of banalization, of acceptability and of diffusion of digital technologies.

The objective of these meetings is to open up times of shared reflection aimed at exploring the mutations (positive and negative) generated by the technical development of our societies on different levels (environment, society, politics…), as well as the internal lines of tension running through these techniques.

EXPLORE CURRENT CHANGES THROUGH THE PRISM OF ARTISTIC CREATION

The role of art, as a source of questioning, interrogation and criticism, seems to us essential to explore these questions and issues. The “artist’s” point of view, through his creation, his production process and the experience he proposes, allows us to cross all the themes addressed and constitutes the framework of a collective reflection. This “entry” allows us to talk about the environment, the living and the political while maintaining a precise and stable guideline.

The predictive thought of the artist, made as much of his intimate prospection as of the acuity of his senses allows moreover to explore probable, desirable, desirable, obsolete, constrained, defective futures, to write speculative scenarios and to extract us from the dichotomy utopia (the technique is going to save us) / dystopia (there is nothing more to do).

The health crisis linked to COVID-19 puts many questions into perspective and modestly implies reconsidering our models, our achievements and our practices. The time is marked by uncertainty, and while we cannot answer it, we can ask questions and suggest that informed and open thinking is a good start. The notion of mutation obviously echoes the viral nature of this crisis, which profoundly affects our individual and collective perception of what makes or should make “society”.

L’article Loic Fel at “AMBIVALENCES #1 : Environmental mutations est apparu en premier sur COAL.

On Wednesday, September 23, Lauranne Germond was invited to discuss with Lucy Orta the place of the living in their art by the DarwingLab, where a monographic exhibition on the drawings of the artist couple Lucy+Jorge Orta was presented to the audience.

The exhibition aimed to highlight the practice of drawing in all of Lucy and Jorge Orta’s projects. The visitor could thus have access to the creation in its continuity: paths of thought, elaboration of a concept, crossroads of ideas, seizure of information or recording of sensations.

L’article Discussion between Lucy Orta and Lauranne Germond at DrawingLab est apparu en premier sur COAL.

On September 10, 2020, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, opened the second annual session of the Cycle des Hautes Etudes de la Culture, placed under the sign of Ecology and Culture.

Addressing cultural issues in their societal, territorial and economic contexts, the Cycle des Hautes Études de la Culture pursues a triple objective of decompartmentalization, sharing and renewal of approaches.

For nine months, the auditors, who come from various backgrounds, some from the Ministry of Culture, some from outside, build, through meetings and conferences as well as in working groups, a strategic vision, debated and shared on the major issues of cultural policies in the face of contemporary changes.

COAL contributed to the first MODULE of this cycle on September 10-11, 2020. Cultural policies: what new dimensions in a context of transition?

In an environment where the actors are numerous, the policies are territorialized, and the financing constraints are important, what role is expected from the Ministry of Culture? What is the relationship with other decision-makers and actors? How can we anticipate current environmental and social changes and better address the public?

The afternoon was largely devoted to the issue of ecological transition, by putting different projects into perspective. A presentation of the sustainable development strategy of the Ministry of Culture by Olivier Lerude, Senior Official in charge of sustainable development, in dialogue with Lauranne Germond, co-founder of the COAL association, and a presentation by Xavier Delestre, archaeologist, of the Cosquer Cave, a unique witness to climate change, followed.

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Featured image La Spire compagnie Rhizome – Chloé Moglia, July 2017, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Photo by Jean-Louis Fernandez

L’article Cycle des Hautes Etudes de la culture – Contribution by Lauranne Germond est apparu en premier sur COAL.

At the frontier of the artistic, technical and scientific worlds, the public is invited to attend round-table discussions, workshops for young audiences or to visit a video exhibition. Turned around the questions of ecology, energy autonomy and circular economy, these days are placed under the sign of the interactions between the disciplines, the practices and especially the coalition between artistic practices and environment.

COAL is invited to one of these Round Tables on July 15 from 7 to 8 pmFlavie L.T (artist), Sami Trabelsi (architect), Ouazzani Carrier (artists), Vincent Voillat (artist), Lauranne Germond (curator, COAL), Camille de Tolédo (writer – audio capsule from Berlin) to discuss the theme “Listening to life. Artistic creation & sustainable development”. The debate will be moderated by Anne-Cécile de Vellis and Arnaud Idelon.

In parallel, each of the speakers had the opportunity to submit a video that will allow the public to analyze these links between art and ecology. COAL is pleased to present a filmed work by Eléonore Saintagnan (special mention of the COAL 2020 Prize jury) & Grégoire Motte from 2015, Les Bêtes Sauvages. This set of videos will be presented during the 5 days on board the Floating Station.

At the end of these days and of these different activities, the Floating Station is transformed in the evening into a friendly place for concerts, projections, DJ sets and refreshments.

More information on the program of the Sation Flottante until July 19th
HERE.

Featured image: excerpt from the film Les Bêtes Suavages, Grégoire Motte & Eléonore Saintagnan, 2015.

L’article Station Flottante – Round Table “listening to the living”. est apparu en premier sur COAL.