River's Memory
Arts-sciences and territory project, 2022-
Partnerships:European Institute for Marine Studies, Brest-Plouzané, France
Living life of Brittany
Public Establishment of management of the Watershed of Aulne river
Water and Rivers of Brittany
Mixed media installation - Miscellaneous materials
The Aulne river has its source at Lohuec in the Côtes d'Armor and flows
into the hollow of Brest harbor in Finistère, where the clams studied
by the European Institute of Marine Studies are sown. The clam, a real sentinel,
concentrates all the pollution carried by the river.
My contribution to the transversal axis of the International Research Program
CLIMCLAM which studies clam diseases consists initially of apprehending and
visually documenting the current research on clam diseases, considered in
my project as a organ of perception: the extension of our senses. At the same
time, I will carry out an intensive immersion in the territory of the Aulne
watershed, traveling the river and its tributaries, guided by environnemental
specialists and other encountings.
Summary of this first stage, an evolving installation bringing together drawings,
films, objects, will gather the two dimensions of the microcosm and the macrocosm,
of here and there, gradually revealing the interdependence of these spaces.More infos
Secondly, an installation mobilizing neuroscientific processes will immerse participants in an expanded perception and physiological interaction anchored to this local/global context. Water, through its multiple origins (estuarine, fluvial, cellular), will be the carnal canal between the “objective” external world of scientific and empirical approaches and the depth of each person’s internal world, revealing our ontological belonging to the biosphere.
