Programme / Schedule

Open Source Body won’t be streamed but the totality of the discussions and presentations will be filmed/documented and uploaded online following the event.

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

May

10:00

welcome call

Installation all day long. Green Open Food Evolution - Roscosmoe

Green Open Food Evolution - Roscosmoe Cité des Arts, Installation, all day long. (Maya Minder, Sandra Bühler, Ewen Chardronnet)

Maya Minder currently leads the research project Green Open Food Evolution – dietetics and endosymbiotic co-evolution to become Homo Photosyntheticus during her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts. The installation presents here a serie of interviews conducted for the Green Open Food Evolution in collaboration with the film maker Sandra Bühler and the interdisciplinary research project Roscosmoe initiated by Ewen Chardronnet and the marine biologists Xavier Bailly and Gaëlle Correc (Roscoff Biological Station – CNRS Sorbonne Universités).

10:30 - 12:00

Anthropology, feminism, postcoloniality and radical care

Panel

This introductory panel will discuss the notion of “radical care” and reflect on it from a Latino-American, feminist and post-colonial perspective.

Natasa Petresin (Fr/Si), Cité Internationale des Arts – moderation
Paloma Ayala, Badlab Project (Mx)
Luiza Prado (video, Br)
Aniara Rodado, artist (Fr/Co)
Emilia Sanabria, anthropologist (CNRS, Fr/Co), Crafting Settings for Otherwise Health under Brazilian Settler Colonialism

12:30 / 14:00

Visits of the petite galerie with Nathalie Harb and Benoit Piéron

Installation Seconde peau - soft walls, patch.e.s & soap

Nathalie Harb and Benoît Piéron invite participants to join them in a soapy textile decor. They will inhabit this space with their words around the limits of the Home, the body, intimacy in the hospital and other existential environments.

14:30 - 16:30

ART4MED, art meets health and biomedical research

Panel

ART4MED.EU is a Creative Europe program of the European Union that intends to foster encounters between art practices and biomedical health research. In a fast-changing societal environment, under the influence of big data, material and technical innovation, five partners - Makery (Fr), Waag (Nl), Labae (Dk), Kersnikova (Si), Bioart Society (Fi)— present the current state of development of their residencies in biomedical institutions.

Ewen Chardronnet, Makery - moderation
Adriana Knouf (US) & Miha Turisic (Si), Waag Society (Nl : Xenological Preterrelations
Shu Lea Cheang (US/Tw) & Vivien Roussel (Fr), ART2M-Makery (Fr): Unborn0x9
Helena Nikonole (Ru) & Lucy Ojomoko (Ru), Institut Kersnikova (Si): Quorum Sensing
Emilia Tikka (Fi) & Erich Berger (Fi/At), Bioart Society (Fi): Xeno-Optimizations for Arctic Survival

May

10:00

welcome call

Installation all day long. Green Open Food Evolution - Roscosmoe

Green Open Food Evolution - Roscosmoe Cité des Arts, Installation, all day long. (Maya Minder, Sandra Bühler, Ewen Chardronnet)

10:30 - 11:30

Endocrine disruptors and public action design

Panel

How to engage in public action design in relation with the controversy of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) and toxic environments? This panel proposes an encounter between the artist collective Aliens in Green and the anthropologist Mariana Rios Sandoval (CNRS).

Ewen Chardronnet, Makery – moderation
Aliens in Green: Bureau d'études (Fr) + Špela Petrič (Si)
Mariana Rios Sandoval, anthropologist (CNRS)

11:45 - 12:30

Ensargasse moi

Presentation by Annabel Guérédrat

The body of a contaminated Caribbean witch decolonizes herself. Annabel Guérédrat is a choreographer, dancer, performer, researcher, and "bruja", and is also a practitioner of body-mind centering, a somatic practice that allows her to write feminist, organic (eco/afro) performances, where the intimate and the political are increasingly linked.

13:30

visits of the petite galerie with Nathalie Harb and Benoit Piéron

Installation Seconde peau - soft walls, patch.e.s & soap

Nathalie Harb and Benoît Piéron invite participants to join them in a soapy textile decor. They will inhabit this space with their words around the limits of the Home, the body, intimacy in the hospital and other existential environments.

14:00 - 15:30

Photosymbiosis and Human Health

Panel 1

The pervasive trope of ‘greening everything’ not only impacts on public discourse but affects all disciplines of knowledge production alike – why should art, medicine and the techno-sciences be an exception? Jens Hauser's introductory talk provides the framework for a dialogue with Myra N. Chávez, biologist at the University if Bern, on biomedical applications of photosymbiosis.

Introduction: Jens Hauser, Medical Museion Copenhagen (Fr/De/Dk), Healthy Green and Nonhuman Microperformativity
Conference: Myra Chavez (Anatomy Institute, Bern University, Mx), Photosymbiosis in Biomedical Applications
followed by a discussion with Jens Hauser

15:45 - 17:15

Photosymbiosis and Human Health

Panel 2

How to become Homo Photosyntheticus? This speculative question will unfold in different perspectives through the artistic researches and practices of Maya Minder, Ewen Chardronnet and Quimera Rosa.

Jens Hauser - moderation
Maya Minder (Ch), Ewen Chardronnet (Fr), on Green Open Food Evolution and Roscosmoe projects
Quimera Rosa (Es), communication, Trans*Plant. Le voyage d’OncoMouseTM : Open the Pill
Followed by a distant chat with the audience

May

All day long at la Cité des Arts (11:00 - 18:00)

visits of the petite galerie with Nathalie Harb and Benoit Piéron

Installation Seconde peau - soft walls, patch.e.s & soap

Nathalie Harb and Benoît Piéron invite participants to join them in a soapy textile decor. They will inhabit this space with their words around the limits of the Home, the body, intimacy in the hospital and other existential environments.

14:00 - 18:00

Workshops Volumes

Green Open Food Evolution, workshop by Maya Minder (Ch), Annabel Guérédrat and Adam Zaretsky | Echo of Leaf and Body, workshop by Badlab Project (Ch)

Green Open Food Evolution, workshop by Maya Minder (Ch) and Annabel Guérédrat

Green Open Food Evolution is a speculative narration into possible dietary program based on a algae rich nutrition, to rewrite the human holobiome and finally become Homo Photosyntheticus. The workshop will conduct a lecture performance, a speculative writing workshop and a cooking class with many tastings and fabulations on how to become Homo Photosyntheticus. In addition there will be a kinaesthetic workshop on enhencing body and mind perception accompagnied by Annabel Guérédrat, a certified BMC practitioner, and Adam Zaretsky. Maya Minder is currently an artist in residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris via the programme conceived with the foundation Art Explora.

On registration only (10 persons): contact@makery.info

Echo of Leaf and Body, workshop by Badlab Project (Ch)

During the Echo of Leaf and Body workshop, BadLab will create a collective resonance space through sound and gesture. Participants are invited to contribute and hold the acoustic space together with the vibrations of the gong, readings, writings and a soundscape to be evolved during a process of making a DIY structure of healing. Within these sounds, each participant will choose their healing plants intuitively, foraged in the public space surrounding Volumes, to create a personal healing pattern in the form of a hapazome mandala.

On registration only (10 persons): contact@makery.info

20:00

ICTUSCORDIS

Audio-visual body performance by Janus Alez Luznar (Si)

ICTUSCORDIS is a series of audiovisual performances with the human heart as the main subject.

The series is based on an audiovisual image that comes from a heartbeat and dynamically depicts the intimate relationship between the audience and the collective heartbeat. In the series artist explores the application of the Biofeedback method, by applying feedback loops between physical and mental body states. With the performances, artist invites the audience into a sacred space of artistic and spiritual intimacy and invites visitors to indulge in the audiovisual image of the heart.