Truant School [visions of clouds], Summer 2021, bermuda
Residency and conferences
With Aurélien Catros, Dennis Pohl, Emanuele Coccia, Guillaume Robert, Karin Schlageter & Marie Limoujoux, Max Bondu, Myriam Treiber, Nicolas Prignot, Pauline Julier, Simon Ripoll-Hurier, Sophie Houdart, Tiphaine Abenia, Uri Wegman
Souphie Houdart
Sophie Houdart is Research Director at the CNRS and member of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology. Trained in social anthropology, she has been focusing in various practices within the field of innovation studies, in the realm of science as well as of art, especially in Japan. She is currently doing research on life after the Tohoku disaster in March 2011.
Marie -Luce Nadal
Through performances, visual and sometimes gustative works, Marie-Luce Nadal express her fascination for the human will to control the weather with science, magic or both. Like a contemporary alchemist, Nadal uses chemistry to reveal the topography of a wandering mind, to grow mist or build clouds or, to invoke and invite the Divinity of the Fog. Her experimentations of the Cartesian desire to be masters and possessors of nature also led her to speculate about the possibility to buy or own a high pressure system.
Marie-Luce Nadal is a PhD researcher at SACRe Laboratory, PSL Research University in Paris.
Marie -Luce Nadal & Emanuele Coccia
Discussion
Through performances, visual and sometimes gustative works, Marie-Luce Nadal express her fascination for the human will to control the weather with science, magic or both. Like a contemporary alchemist, Nadal uses chemistry to reveal the topography of a wandering mind, to grow mist or build clouds or, to invoke and invite the Divinity of the Fog. Her experimentations of the Cartesian desire to be masters and possessors of nature also led her to speculate about the possibility to buy or own a high pressure system.
Marie-Luce Nadal is a PhD researcher at SACRe Laboratory, PSL Research University in Paris.
Emanuele Coccia is a lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of La vie des plantes. Une métaphysique du mélange (Payot et Rivages, Paris, 2016) and of Métamorphoses (Rivages, Paris 2020). In 2019, Emanuele Coccia was scientific advisor for the exhibition Nous les Arbres presented at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Simon Ripoll-Hurier
Coming from visual arts and developing a practice on the edge of music, radio and cinema, Simon Ripoll-Hurier tracks down situations of listening. His work has been presented in festivals, biennials, museums, galleries, and broadcasted on the radio. He also plays with Les Agamemnonz, an instrumental surf band, and co-founded *DUUU, an artist-run webradio. Between 2014 and 2017, he developed Diana, a research project that includes film, video, performance and radio. Diana is a gallery of portraits of amateurs. Some talk to birds, some to ghosts, and some stack radios and stand up antennas to contact each other around the globe. All of them keep an ear out, listening to the noise of the world.
Alan Ruiz
Alan Ruiz is an artist whose work examines the protocols that shape and condition space through economic, aesthetic, and social systems. His work has been exhibited in both national and international institutions including the Kitchen, Queens Museum, the Storefront for Art & Architecture, and TG, Nottingham. His writing has been published in ArtForum, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Archinect, ED, BOMB Magazine, and Movement Research Performance Journal. He has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wesleyan University, and currently teaches at Eugene Lang, The New School and the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons. He serves on the Executive Committee of the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems. Ruiz received an MFA from Yale University and was a fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Nicolas Prignot
Nicolas est professeur de philosophie à Bruxelles à l’Ecole de Recherche Graphique et à l’ESA St-Luc. Il est membre du GECo, Groupe d’études constructivistes de L’ULB. Il est auteur d’une thèse sur Félix Guattari et la polémique autour des ondes électromagnétiques, et coauteur de Terres des villes, Enquêtes potagères de Bruxelles aux premières saison du XXIe siècle.
Dennis Pohl
Dennis is Research Assistant at the chair for Architecture Theory and Digital Culture at TU Delft, and at the chair of Architecture Theory at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research interest lies in a material and cultural history of the digital in architecture. In his PhD research titled “Designing Europe: The Architecture of Territory, Politics, and Institutions,” he analyzed how architectural design techniques historically impacted political planning in post-war Europe. Dennis was a research fellow at the DFG research group “Knowledge in the Arts” at the Berlin University of the Arts (2015-2018), and DAAD fellow at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University New York (2018). He was co-director of the AA Visiting School Brussels “The House of Politics,” and contributed to the project “Eurotopie” in the Belgian pavilion at the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice.
Karin Schlageter
Karin Schlageter (1988, FR-CH), graduated from the Master’s degree «Arts and Languages» at EHESS in 2011 is an independent curator. In 2019, she is the interim director of the contemporary art center Les Capucins in Embrun (France). In 2021, she is laureate of the Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto (class of 2022) and of a research grant from Cnap with a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris (2020-2021).