By experimenting with forms of collective intelligence in her work, Agniezska Kurant fosters the emergence of novel forms based on a multitude of interactions between agents. She thus “metabolizes” the production processes of the living and calls for complex, hybrid, and collective works that are never complete, continue evolving in real time, and involve a “polyphony of agencies.” By setting up processes she intentionally loses control over, and working with AI, geological, or living processes, her works break free from fixed and stable forms.
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Michel Blazy is a tamer artist, whose work results from collaborations with snails, mosquitoes, molds or bacteria. Exhibited at the Portique (Centre d’art contemporain du Havre) until December 18, he questions, through his living works, the temporality of art and the borders between the living and the non-living, the natural and the artificial. Extract of the article Encouraging the matter published in STREAM 04 : The paradoxes of the living
“We are told that we have entered the era of cultural globalization. We live in the era of multiculturalism, in an age of hybridizations, of cross-fertilization between traditions and modus operandi, of global networks. ” Nicolas Bourriaud is an art historian, art critic, theorist and exhibition curator. Since 2016, he is the director of the future Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo).
The reason why the urban revolution is so acute, quick and sudden, is because it is driven by a compelling force: the spectacular increase in the world population. By the mid-twenty-firstt century, the number of human beings will have tripled. We are currently facing the formidable challenge of having to house all these people to come. This brutal shift also entails new ways of experiencing time on our human scale. The sociologist Jean Viard describes the link between accelerated global urbanization and the demographic revolution that people are experiencing now that humans have begun to live complete and discontinuous lives, before delving into the issue of time as well as the importance of collaborative approaches in improving our quality of life. Jean Viard is a sociologist and economist. Associate director of research at the CNRS and Cevipof, he is also the director of the Éditions de l’Aube publishing company.