March 6, 2024 / 18:00-21:00
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (Paris, FR)
Site du Marais
18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris
Big thank you’s:
Institut Français de Roumanie à Bucarest
Institut Français Paris
Campus France
SaintEX Reims
Marginal
Here I am, halfway through my residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, still struggling to make sense of all the information I’ve been digging up on deep time of technology, exosomatics and the relational history of technology and humanity, to tackle ways of relating to technology that are rooted in gentleness and care, exploring approaches to an ecology of technology and poking our habits of object abandonment and unsustainable obsolescence.
This mix of an idea started up on this road in 2023, while working on Reliquaries from the Fungible in Marginal’s Tech Rider’s Dilemma project. I will be working on this research throughout 2024, in the framework of collective project Places of Care, in collab with Andrei Tudose, Mara Oglakci and wonderful researchers from National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics (INFLPR), National Institute for Earth Physics (INCDFP) & The seismological observatory in Timisoara RO and SaintEX, in Reims FR. I was so happy to receive the amazing support of the French Institute of Romania in Bucharest (thank you so much, Ioana and Loic!) along with the French Institute in Paris and Campus France, to develop the first stage of my research during the residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
Since dialogue with new and exciting people is always a great idea, I believe it’s high time I start to got out of my shell and accepted Cité’s invitation of opening my studio’s door for others to join me on my task, to ask questions and to discuss the ideas I’ve been scribbling on for the past 2 months.
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Ateliers ouverts : Pratiques ralenties (Open Studios: Work in Slow Motion) is a weekly tour of a selection of our artists in residency and in their studios. This event is at the heart of everything we do at the Cité internationale des arts, a place where artists from different generations and working in different disciplines come from all over the world to live, work and carry out research.
The pandemic has transformed social, environmental, cultural and political landscapes around the world and highlighted the inequalities at work in our contemporary societies. In the cultural field, the consequences of this unprecedented crisis are appearing forcefully and new ways of doing things and acting are emerging.
Artistic, curatorial and institutional practices are more than ever at the forefront of these new ethical, societal and environmental dynamics. In this context, the artist residency takes on a new dimension due to its lasting and non-event nature. It can be seen today as one of the possible responses to the crisis: the time of a residency is both an everyday moment and a singular encounter, a time of openness to others but also a moment of slowing down of the usual habits of life, allowing us to question the artistic practice and transform it.
Open studios: Slow practices offers, every Wednesday, at the Cité internationale des arts, a reflection of this unique situation.
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presentation text from Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
Check out the open studios map here.
And for info on Ateliers ouverts : Pratiques ralenties, have a look here.
Also, to read about my evil plans during the residency go here and here.
Contributors
Cité internationale des arts is an artist-in-residence building complex in Paris, which accommodates artists of all specialities and nationalities in Paris. It comprises two sites, one located in the Marais and the other in Montmartre.[1] Approximately 1200 artists, choreographers, musicians, writers and designers from around the world live and work in the Cité internationale des arts every year.
https://www.citedesartsparis.net/
Under the tutelage of the Ministry for European and Foreign Affairs (Ministère de l’Europe et des affaires étrangères), the French Institute in Romania (IFR) belongs to the French cultural network abroad. IFR’s mission is to promote cultural, linguistic and university cooperation, as well as cooperation with institutions and representatives of civil society.
https://institutfrancais.ro/bucuresti/
Marginal is a cultural non-profit organization from Romania, functioning as a transdisciplinary collective aiming to support, promote and extend bridges between artists and various agents from other fields, with a focus on the humanities and the implications of sciences and technologies in socio-cultural structures.
https://marginal.ro/
Project
Places of care (2024-) is a transdisciplinary project that questions possible approaches to an ecology of technology,, in 4 sub-projects led by artists Sabina Suru (RO), Ioana Vreme Moser (DE), Antoni Rayzhekov (BG/AT)and Mara Oglakci (RO), in collab with curator Andrei Tudose (RO), that investigate alternative ways of relating/interacting with technology, as well as ways in which it can connect with the surrounding natural world from a more-than-human perspective.