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Colliding Epistemes: Science for Art's sake ?

 

Hosted by:  Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

 


May 06 - June 19, 2022
Tue - Sun

10:00 AM to 6:00 PM GMT 1


Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000

Brussels, Belgium 


 

Can art change science? Can science change art?
Nowadays an ever-growing number of artists and institutions are interested in the latest scientific and technological developments accelerating change in the world. This evolution requires new initiatives to establish better connections between arts and science, between cultural and research institutions and with the citizens.

In the course of almost two years, with a unique, long-term Art&Science European-wide residency programme, STUDIOTOPIA encouraged renowned and emerging contemporary artists to host a scientist or researcher in the independent and inspiring environment of their studios, reversing the usual approach whereby artists are invited to work at R&D departments of universities or companies. During their residencies, both the artists and the scientists were put on the same level. More than 13 artists and 25 scientists have as such teamed up for a 17 months-long residency programme across 18 countries.

 

This exhibition is the culmination of these collaborative residencies. It explores the potential of art practices to reshape the governing paradigm of scientific understanding by disrupting its atomized logic and pushing research methodologies to the boundaries of the possible. It brings together artworks that emerge from the crucible of a collaborative process in which laboratories, technologies and expertise have opened up to the catalyst of artistic invention.  Liberating enquiry from the constraints of Holocene epistemologies, such settings create the conditions for unconventional responses to planetary challenges to be articulated. With the reversal of the usual division of roles, “science for art’s sake” could be the alternative maxim of art-science collaborations in which art poses the questions and science illuminates a pathway to outcomes. The diversity of approaches in the exhibition reflects the eclectic palette of scientific expertise engaged in the Studiotopia project, from oncology to marine biology, chemistry to ecological psychology, seismology to more-than-human anthropology, as well as palaeontology, photonics, data science and plant biology.

 

The exhibition is conceived as a tripartite constellation of cellular clusters presenting collaborations that materialize the shifting sands of artistic and scientific concern in the Anthropocene. In the first cluster on Speculative Ecologies artists draw on alternative epistemes to challenge the spatial order and temporalities of the Anthropocene. The second cluster Earthly Sensorium gathers artworks that create the conditions for heightened ecological sensitivity and challenge societal indifference towards fellow species. The third cluster on Hacking Technocracy gathers art practices that subvert the technological panaceas and superficial solutions to systemic problems advocated by corporate and political interests.

 

Curators of the exhibition are Maja and Reuben Fowkes.

Artists & Scientists in Residency
Sandra Lorenzi (ART) & Jean-Christophe Marine (SCI)
Kuang-Yi Ku (ART) & Jean-Christophe Marine – Sofie Goormachtig (SCI)
Hypercomf (ART) & Markos K. Digenis (SCI)
3137 (ART) & Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik (SCI)
Alexandra Pirici (ART) & Paco Calvo (SCI)
Ciprian Mureşan (ART) & Sanneke Stigter – Sven Dupré (SCI)
Christiaan Zwanikken (ART) & Emmanuel Grimaud – DM Hoyt (SCI)
Dmitry Gelfand – Eveline Domnitch (ART) & Florian Schreck - Guillaume Schweicher (SCI)
Oswaldo Maciá (ART) & Chris Bean – Emilia Leszkowicz (SCI)
Maja Smrekar (ART) & Jonas Jørgensen (SCI)
Kat Austen (ART) & Indre Žliobaitė – Laurence Gill (SCI)
Voldemars Johansons (ART) & Hugo Thienpont – Alexander Kish – Antoine Reserbat-Plantey (SCI)
Siobhán McDonald (ART) & Chris Bean – Arwyn Jones – Emily Shuckburgh (SCI)

 

Info & tickets: https://bit.ly/STUDIOTOPIA-EXPOBXL

 


 

Sandra Lorenzi - How to read poetry to cancer cells? 

Sandra Lorenzi & Jean-Christophe Marine, How to Read Poetry to Cancer Cells? © Damon De Backer/Bozar 

 

Siobhan McDonald, Cosmic Gas

 

Siobhan McDonald, Cosmic Gas, 2022 © Courtesy of the artist

 


This exhibition is presented within the framework of the Studiotopia network, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. 

     
 

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