Salon de conversation – Coal à la FIAC 2016
Art’s Time, the World’s Time
For the fourth consecutive year, FIAC presents, in collaboration with COAL (association for art and sustainable development) discussions between an artist, a scientist and a theorist. While the frenetic pace of our ultra-connected, ultra-productive, and ultra-consumerist age leads us from novelty to novelty, within a subjective temporality of the instantaneous, of urgency and speed; reality, on the other hand, cannot be accelerated. Seasons remain seasons, years remain years, worldly time is permanent and we are breaking away from it in a dangerous diachrony. For instance, Overshoot Day – a date in the year in which, theoretically, the renewable resources produced by the planet for an entire year have been consumed – occurred in 2015 as early as August 13th and has fallen earlier each year for decades now, showing that humanity is living on credit. As though in opposition to our frenzy, and despite the seasonality of the contemporary art scene, art remains a domain that escapes time. With the vocation of presenting and devising the possibility for universal experience, art helps us to escape human temporality. It is designed to construct and contribute to heritage and thus escape time. Yet art remains the witness of its era, and ours is that of acceleration to the point of collapse. So how do contemporary artists reconcile worldly time with that of our age and that of art?
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22nd
2pm Are art and the world timeless?
We strive to preserve art just as we preserve the world, from museums to conservation areas, we want to preserve all that exists, and yet the world continues on its path, as does art history. Are we not at risk of destroying both the world and art by freezing them in an idealised state? Are we not at risk of losing of our heritage and a sense of the present by failing to preserve the past?
With the participation of:
Jane Lecomte (écologie), Dominique Bourg (philosophe), Melik Ohanian (artiste)
Conversation in French
3:30pm Does art present worldly time to us?
The world’s time may escape our perception, limited as it is to our physical and temporal scale. Yet artistic concepts no longer use humankind as the yardstick of all things, and from the most fleeting moments to the vastness of eons, they may allow us to put our finger on what is beyond us.
With the participation of:
Bergit Arends (commissaire), Claire Morgan (artiste), Jan Zalasiewicz (paléobiologiste)
Conversation : in English
5 pm Is accelerated time only limited by art and the world?
Our perception of the acceleration of time in our age that concerns both art and our lives and ecosystem is now reaching
its limits. If art follows the rhythm of the seasons, it becomes a trend and no longer forms a corpus constructed over time. If the world accelerates beyond the ecosystem’s functional capacity, it collapses. And if our lives accelerate any more, we could no longer respond to the speed or quantity of the stimuli assailing us. Can art teach us to recover a calmer temporality, on a human scale?
With the participation of:
Luc Abbadie (Écologue), Philippe Huneman (Philosophe), Lara Almarcegui (artiste)
Conversation : in French
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FIAC, GRAND PALAIS
Le 22 octobre de 14h à 18h
Rotonde Alexandre III
Premier étage du Grand Palais.
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