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After almost two years of Art & Science residencies, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels) presents the artistic results (drawings, paintings, video artworks, experimental ceramics...) of a collaborative process in which science and tech laboratories have opened up to artistic invention to provide unconventional responses to planetary challenges.

The boundaries between science and art have been completely destabilized by the Anthropocene—he most recent period in Earth’ history, when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’ climate and ecosystems.

 

 

International Archives 1st half of 2022

Colliding Epistemes: Science for Art’ sake ?

Bozar, Brussels (Belgium)

06.05 - 19.06.2022

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From May 6 to June 19, 2022, Bozar is bringing together in its Bozar Lab artworks that emerged from a collaborative process in which science and tech laboratories have opened up to artistic invention. The impulse for such collaborations resides in the here and now of climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse, a planetary crisis.

The exhibition Colliding Epistemes: Science for Art’ sake?, curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, investigates the consequences of bringing artistic positions and scientific expertise into close proximity, exploring the friction that arises from the collision of disciplines, methodologies and mindsets. The diversity of approaches in this exhibition reflects the eclectic palette of scientific expertise in the Studiotopia project, from oncology and psychology to chemistry and biology. The results are equally wide-ranging: from drawings and paintings, to video artworks and experimental ceramics.

Curators

Maja and Reuben Fowkes (London, UK) are founders of the Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art, co-directors of the Postsocialist Art Centre (PACT) at University College London and authors of Art and Climate Change (Thames & Hudson, 2022).

Studiotopia artists and scientists

Sandra Lorenzi & Jean-Christophe Marine, Kuang-Yi Ku & Sofie Goormachtig, Hypercomf & Markos K. Digenis, 3 137 & Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, Alexandra Pirici & Paco Calvo, Ciprian Mureşan & Sanneke Stigter—ven Dupré, Christiaan Zwanikken & Emmanuel Grimaud—m Hoyt, Dmitry Gelfand—velina Domnitch & Florian Schreck—uillaume Schweicher, Oswaldo Maciá & Chris Bean—milia Leszkowicz, Maja Smrekar & Jonas Jørgensen, Kat Austen & Indre Žliobaitė—aurence Gill, Voldemārs Johansons & Hugo Thienpont—lexander Kish—ntoine Reserbat-Plantey, Siobhán McDonald & Chris Bean—rwyn Jones—mily Shuckburgh.

About Studiotopia: Art meets Science in the Anthropocene

This exhibition is the culmination of 13 art-science collaborative residencies organised within the framework of Studiotopia: Art meets Science in the Anthropocene (2019-2022), an initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and hosted by eight cultural institutions across Europe. Working alongside Ars Electronica in Linz, GLUON in Brussels, LABoral in Gijon, Onassis Stegi in Athens and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the venues for the three iterations of the exhibition are Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, the Centre for Fine Arts (Bozar) in Brussels and Cluj Cultural Centre in Cluj.

The Studiotopia programme aims to increase collaborations between cultural and research institutions, academia, innovation centres, creatives and citizens. Studiotopia encourages renowned and emerging contemporary visual artists to host a scientist or researcher in the independent & inspiring environment of their studios, reversing the usual approach whereby artists are invited to work at R&D departments of universities or companies.

Exhibition 06 May -19 June 2022. BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - 1000 Brussels (Belgium).

 

 

 

 

 

Kat Austen, Palaeoplasticene, 2022 (detail)

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