Round table — Presented as part of the Triennale Banlieue!
2 p.m.
Verticale — centre d’artistes invites the public to a round-table discussion that brings together artists from its current programming season to talk about their upcoming, current, or recent work.
Fermentation, an organic process with transformative outcomes, is the central idea behind works that explore the living worlds of humans, plants, animals, and bacteria. Carried out over long periods of time, these works allow us to imagine new futures.
This activity is presented as part of the Triennale Banlieue! Interrègnes / Interregnum that looks at the dynamics between human habitats and suburbia’s natural ecosystems.
Led by Emmanuelle Choquette, this round-table is an opportunity to discuss the work of Rose de la Riva, Peter Flemming, Clément de Gaulejac, and Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt and the common issues that run through their projects. We will examine relationships that occur between living things and their influence on environmental, social, and political systems. Each in their own way, these artists ask us to reflect on the cohabitation of species by deconstructing the dominant human perspective. The results are works that cultivate our attention, the observation of natural phenomena such as examples of resilience and adaptation, and projection into a post-anthropocentric era. Emmanuelle Choquette notes that although some of these artistic strategies draw from fiction, their works remain powerful tools to reflect on how the preservation of our ecosystems as a whole is the only sustainable way forward.
The complete program Fermentation, science and fiction is still in progress, with the second part to be unveiled shortly.