This day explores the areas of friction between the wonderful and the scientific, knowledge and beliefs, through artistic and theoretical practices that question how science can produce imagination and how wonder can lead to forms of knowledge.
Far from any binary opposition between knowledge and superstition, the day invites us to recognize that wonder is not the opposite of the scientific, but a possible vector of questioning, a tool for decentralization, a engine of discoveries and therefore of research.
While contemporary Western knowledge seems to be embodied in increasingly efficient technological devices for measurement, calculation, and visualization, it seems necessary (even urgent) to rethink our relationship to experience, situated knowledge, technologies, and imaginaries.
The works of artists and researchers navigate between observation and divination, analysis and poetry, rationality and magic. Rather than opposing these terms, they consider alliances, experimental connections that sketch new epistemologies and allow for wonder to be considered as a critical and heuristic tool.
The day revolves around duo exchanges that will discuss singular or collective ways of reading images, bodies, the sky, and the world.
Program
> 10am-12:30pm
See-Know: images and oracles with Laura Lafon Cadilhac and Ariane Temkine
Laura Lafon Cadilhac and Ariane Temkine opened the meeting with a discussion at the intersection of cartomancy, visual culture, and artistic practice. Using the device Présage Tirage Mirage and a practice of the Tarot de Marseille, they propose a drawing experience that will serve as a starting point for a discussion on the polysemy of images and the regimes of interpretation they mobilize. Between reading, projection, and interpretation, this dialogue will explore how visual forms (photographic or symbolic) can become surfaces of sense activation. Their exchange will be followed by individual readings with the audience, activating image games and involving our abilities to bring out situated and experiential speech.
> 2pm-4:30pm
Read-feel the sky: cosmos and imaginaries with Enguerrand Lascols and Guillaume Pascale
Mixing socio-cultural history, art history, and sound creation, Enguerrand Lascols and Guillaume Pascale will share their perspectives on the cosmos. Drawing from their singular approach and experience (curator of the exhibition Lire le ciel: Sous les étoiles en Méditerranée for one, artist-researcher for the other), they will discuss how sciences, arts, but also popular rites and beliefs question our relationship to the sky, between representations and sensory experiences. Their meeting will be followed by a performance and a collective listening session.
> 5pm-6pm
Convergence 44/3: Meeting and sharing with Frédéric Gleyze, Jonathan Mourglia Katia B., Angèle Peltier, Louise Brunel, Charlie Solé-Laroche
The Convergence 44/3 project explores the interactions between the environment, climate, and territory through a sensitive and situated approach. During several days and seasons, a small group of students accompanied by Frédéric Gleyze, Jonathan Mourglia, and Guillaume Pascale, worked on Mont Aigoual. Together, they explored this unique place and observed its sky from a climatograph. They wrote, photographed, filmed… This third phase of connection is dedicated to their words and experience stories. It can provide a platform to discuss the various challenges of the Gard region and its vulnerabilities.
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