Thematics

Mythologies

The history of human civilization begins with our primeval efforts to impose shape upon water. From irrigation to trade, dependence upon and mastery over water formed cities and then societies. Today more than ever, the way water is treated and distributed reflects our commercial values and our failure to coalesce as a global community (Glasgow). Bodies of water have given way to waters full of bodies, as well as bodies without water.

Materials

Art & Performance

And other

• Sculptures by Chad Knight
• Swell, 2000 by Patricia Piccinini
• Storm Sequence, 2000 by Shaun Gladwell
• Gravity, 2014 by Guillaume Néry & Julie Gautier
• and other sculptures by Malgorzata Chodskowska
• AMA, 2018 by Julie Gautier
• Solo for Octopus by Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) avec ShanjuLab https://vidy.ch/temple-du-present-solo-pour-octopus
• Radeau Utopique by Simon Gauchet https://radeau-utopique.com/
• Le Théâtre du Soleil. Les Cinquante Premières Années, de Béatrice Picon-Vallin, a paru en novembre 2014
• Tambours sur la digue est un spectacle créé en 1999 par la compagnie du Théâtre du Soleil, mis en scène par Ariane Mnouchkine selon un texte d’Hélène Cixous

Ecologies

The collective nature of the looming ecological crisis exposes previous conceptions of the individual as direly inadequate for resolving planetary-wide concerns. At the same time, the human is implicated as never before in the mechanisms of an increasingly fragile ecosystem. New social paradigms are being proposed whereby the conditions for improving existing institutional structures are created through inter-activism or intra-action (Barad) as part of the struggle to locate these structures outside the sphere of oppressive forms of techno-capitalism (Latour). And here the question of environmental refugees coincides with ecological concerns (Baldwin, Bettini). In navigating the Anthropocene or new climatic regime, how can social justice and ecology inform one another?

Currents end Currencies

The collective nature of the looming ecological crisis exposes previous conceptions of the individual as direly inadequate for resolving planetary-wide concerns. At the same time, the human is implicated as never before in the mechanisms of an increasingly fragile ecosystem. New social paradigms are being proposed whereby the conditions for improving existing institutional structures are created through inter-activism or intra-action (Barad) as part of the struggle to locate these structures outside the sphere of oppressive forms of techno-capitalism (Latour). And here the question of environmental refugees coincides with ecological concerns (Baldwin, Bettini). In navigating the Anthropocene or new climatic regime, how can social justice and ecology inform one another?