Art and biosphere, Birth of a consciousness

April 20-22, 2016The Ecole supérieure d’Art de Aix-en-Provence invites COAL alongside artists, designers, architects, specialists and researchers to present and confront their projects and research during meetings and round tables. The interaction between these actors leads to an interdisciplinary confrontation and aims to inspire audiences to think differently about the relationship with our ecosystems.

For half a century, artists have been questioning and creating with and around our biosphere, from the macrocosm of galaxies to the microcosm of living cells, passing through landscapes and biotopes. Their aesthetic responses are multiple, ranging from poetic to concrete solutions. They invite us to reconsider the condition of man within nature, but also nature itself seen as a living entity.

THE PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 20 – 2:00-6:00 pm

• 2pm | Introduction by Sigrid Pawelke, teacher atESAAix
• 14h15 | Restitution of the KARST project (karst and aquifer rock networks), Camargo Foundation, by SamuelBordreuil, sociologist, Katie Holten (Ireland) and Susan Schwartzenberg (USA), artists.
• 15h45 | An eco-design approach (two projects in progress: Participatory gardens of La Marcotte and Eco design of the sets for the Festival d’Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence) by Yannick Le Guiner, Eco Design, Gardanne
• 16h30 |
  Thierry Boutonnier
  artist, Lyon
• 5:30 pm | Restitution of the project ” Garden/garden “ at the Superior School of Art of Aix-en-Provence

Thursday, April 21 – 9:30am-12:30pm

• 9:30 a.m. | Materiality of art and ecological issues by Pierre Paliard, art historian
• 10:15 a.m. | Some reflections on the concepts of medium and matter by Michel Guérin, philosopher
• 11h00 |
  Isabelle Daëron
  Isabelle Daëron, artist-designer, Paris (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs)

Thursday, April 21 – 2-6pm

• 2pm | Jeroen Strijbos & Rob Van Rijswijk with the collaboration of
  Dyane Donck
  LaurenceDalstein, researcher at GIEFS – Groupe international d’Études des Forêts Sud-européennes
• 15h | Exchanges around the project heterotopies #1, Grand Site Sainte-Victoire, workshop on a first approach to the forest (the relationship to life, the tree and its future …) in a context of climate change, in partnership with researchers from the Groupe Régional d’Experts sur le Climat en Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, GREC-PACA
• 16h | Sustainable development and biomimicry by Emmanuel Delannoy, Inspire Institute, Marseille
• 17h |
  Ariane Michel
  artist, documentalist, Paris
• 18h | Screening of the film Les hommes d’
  Ariane Michel
  (Grand Prix of the French Competition, FID Marseille2006) – 95mn

Friday, April 22 – 9:30am-12:30pm

• 9:30 am | Agriculture and migration by Frédéric Decosse, sociologist at LEST, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University
• 10h30 |
  Till Roeskens
  Till Roeskens, artist-walker/explorer, Marseille
• 11h15 |
  Nicolas Bonnenfant
  COLOCO collective, landscape architect, Paris

Friday, April 22 – 2-6pm

• 14h | Loic Fel, co-founder of the association COAL – Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development
• 15h | Fanny Bordier, project director of the association M-topia, Marseille
• 15h20 | Julie Chénot, Program Director of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis
• 15:45 | Christopher Crimes, Artistic Director, Nature Addict Fund
• 16:00 | Round table with cultural actors: “Opportunities and innovations of new formats” for artists, researchers and cultural actors in the field of art and nature.

Art and biosphere
Birth of a conscience
Thematic meetings from April 20 to 22, 2016, from 9:30 am to 6 pm