For spring 2024, IAC is presenting an exhibition of recent acquisitions from its collection linked to the research of the "Laboratoire espace cerveau".
Since 2016, in the age of the Anthropocene and as part of the series "Comment habiter des mondes cosmomorphes", the "Laboratoire espace cerveau" has extended its field of exploration to the organic links that unite humans to the cosmos, in order to reassess our place within the living world and learn to recompose a shared world, both human and non-human. From biology to geology to anthropology, a wealth of research is revealing the porosity and interdependence of beings and environments. Little by little, our conceptions are being transformed: the dualistic principles of a Western approach are giving way to another "future" opening up towards a vision of the world that is no longer anthropocentric but "cosmomorphic". Throughout the Laboratory's research, more than a change in our vision of the world, it is the need to profoundly transform our ways of being that has emerged. How does the current planetary crisis force us to transform our ways of being in the world, and how does it call us to action? And how can we learn to transform ourselves, and each other?
The exhibition Pratiques cosmomorphes - (Ré)générer le vivant, considers the multiplicity of artistic practices brought together here as potential modes of this necessary transformation, the creation- the sensitive and the imaginary as tools for renewing our visions of the world in order to be able to "(re)generate the living".
Laboratoire espace cerveau
Initiated in 2009 by artist Ann Veronica Janssens and Nathalie Ergino, the "Laboratoire espace cerveau" brings together researchers and artists to share their explorations. Initially, the focus was on exploring the body's relationship to space through the process of immersion and perceptual experience, then from 2016, in the face of the Anthropocene, on the vital bonds of coexistence that unite human beings. Based on artistic experimentation, he favors intuition as a driving force, shared imaginary worlds as a foundation and collective intelligence as a modus operandi. Transdisciplinary, collective and transversal, the Laboratory develops in stages, in the form of "stations". Mobile units of exploration, these stations consist of study days and "works under study", and take place both "in situ" at IAC and "ex situ" in other locations.
SUMMER SEASON from june 21 to july 28 2024
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Inaugurated in the summer of 2023, the summer workshops offer opportunities for meetings and shared experiences centered around artworks and artistic practices. This year, they provide a chance to delve deeper into the themes explored by the exhibition Pratiques cosmomorphes - (Ré)générer le vivant.All events are free with reservation.
ESPACE CERVEAU LABORATORY RESEARCH SPACE
Fundamental to the theoretical construction of the Institut d'art contemporain's programming, the Brain Space Laboratory has considerably influenced exhibition programming since its creation in 2009. Some stations have led to invitations to exhibit. Conversely, exhibitions have sometimes given rise to station themes. This new research space offers the public an opportunity to revisit the history of the system, its research and the key moments that have marked its existence. A hybrid, it combines books, visuals and explanatory booklets to present, as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the Laboratory's research. Ten booklets offer a detailed overview of the stations addressed by the works in the exhibition Pratiques cosmomorphes - (Ré)générer le vivant. On the wall and on the shelves, the Atlas and the Library retrace the whole of the Laboratoire's activities, highlighting the works under study at each of the stations, as well as the theoretical works that have made up the Laboratoire's thinking.
