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Keywords/Fields of Study : Depiction, art and science, waves, transdisciplinarity, landscape, data, ecology
Abstract: The theoretical research of this PhD focus on the rewriting, by contemporary art, of the
techno- scientific narrative of the 20th century so far dominating, which represents the
world rather as a resource than as a landscape, place of emotions and territory of
subsistence.
Knowledge beyond disciplines helps to defuse this representation devoid of any relation to
the sensitive. Artists are invited by scientists to their laboratories promoting thus the
emergence of crossed and mutually enriched perspectives.
How can artists share new modes of being planetary, taking into account the different
entities in the balance of ecosystems? The 'landscape-installations' proposed by some artists
attempt to make sensitive the simultaneity of events on a planetary scale and to show the
interconnection of different ecological phenomena, mobilizing knowledge from different
disciplines.
The practice-based research of this PhD is organized around four research and creation
'operations' between scientist Patrice Le Gal and the artist, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, author of
this thesis.
As a matter of shape - the wave - and of the concept - the fold - we can notice an evolution
in the chronology of the featured works.
The description of the produced pieces allows, on one hand, to glimpse the creative process
set up and the aesthetic questions that it raises - in particular on the relationship to time or
the place of science in the design of the pieces -, on the other hand, to question some others
artists’ pieces working with tangent themes.
The main artistic project features is a series of real-time kinetic installations named ‘To
record water during days’. Using data from buoys located at the Pacific Ocean or the
Mediterranean Sea, these installations propose a new kind of landscape, in motion in realtime.
This review of more than ten years of creation and collaboration between the artist and the
scientist allows us to understand the reciprocal relationship between the two fields in the
creation of the featured pieces, and in fine, in the representation of the world.
Department: Art, practice-based
, Aix-Marseille University
Advisor(s): Jacques Sapiéga, Patrice Le Gal