VIVANT CLOSING DAY – COAL AND THE BIENNALE CHRONICLES
To celebrate the end of “VIVANT — A Cultural Season for Biodiversity” and of the 2020-2021 edition of “CHRONIQUES, Biennial of Digital Imaginaries on the theme of Eternity”, COAL is joining forces with CHRONIQUES 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 of 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 works of artists. At the heart of artistic fiction abound new worlds, new man-machine relationships, new temporalities to question eternity in the face of the obsolescence of technologies and, henceforth, in the face of that of the living itself.
At the time of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the questions of the living and the perishable are more than ever linked. In collaboration with COAL, the journal Billebaude and the European project T-FACTOR, the Biennale closes by giving the voice to artists who rethink the link to living things and inter-species dialogue, the question of the collapse of living things but also of its resilience, so that the question of eternity becomes that of the durable, the sustainable, the viable and the livable.
PROGRAM
Follow the round tables on Facebook Live
MORNING
10h-12h ROUND TABLE ONLINE – The arts, the living and the city. Extension of the realm 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 Program, Waag, Amsterdam; Mick Finch, Professor of Visual Art Practice, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins.Moderation: Karim Asry and Eva Riccio (project T-factor)
The research and actions of the European T-Factor project aim to understand and encourage the positive impact on our cities of the emerging cultures that are born precisely in the ruins of post-industrial societies, to imagine better futures and to neutralize the dystopian trends that appear inevitable. It tries 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 common points between these experiences of urban regeneration. Spaces can change their narratives through artistic research and we will ask ourselves if this leads to a diversity of representations.
AFTERNOON
14h-15h30 ROUND TABLE ONLINE – Give body to the world that is to come: from fiction, imaginaries, stories.
Around a great witness Sabrina Calvo and the artists Stéfane Perraud, Eva Medin and Paul DuncombeModeration: 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 imaginaries? Artists work to make tangible what we do not see, to work on the substance of the virtual and to transform concepts into worlds. Between science and fiction, between reality and virtual: encounter with the ultra-sensitive and the infra-thin.
16h00-17h30 ROUND TABLE ONLINE – Awaken 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 DuchêneModeration: Anne de Malleray (Revue Billebaude)
We inherit a philosophy which affirms the exceptionality of the human compared to the rest of nature. Faced with the ecological crisis, how to think, imagine, feel beyond this rupture? How to reweave theories, practices and imaginaries that make room for other living people? This discussion takes place at the crossroads of philosophy, science and art, a privileged place to open up spaces for theoretical and sensitive experimentation based on this issue.
17h30 Performed Conference ONLINE
With Michael Cros about the “UBM junior”
ÜBM Junior is a mysterious electric and plant creature the size of an infant. Installed in an incubator, this hybrid being awaits the time for treatment. How does he perceive his environment? What does he need to live? Let’s approach …
NIGHT
Show / Coexistence / Rocio Berenguer – Length 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 interspecies meeting where the different kingdoms of living things – human, animal, plant, mineral, machine – are invited to negotiate together the possibilities of their coexistence.
Coexistence is a poetic text written by Rocio Berenguer that borders on concert, theatrical text and performance. A dialogue between a human and an artificial intelligence (AI) which evokes the possibilities of coexistence between the different kingdoms (animal, plant, mineral, human and machine)
Journée de clôture sur le vivant – COAL et la Biennale CHRONIQUES
On Facebook Live
Retransmission from the Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
16th of January 2021, 10h-20h
Image à la une © CHRONIQUES, Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques imaginée par SECONDE NATURE | ZINC.
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