The French-German project “Out of Balance” offers a unique opportunity to participate in the creation of Riyadh’s first BioArt Laboratory through a 10-day series of workshops. Organized by the Goethe-Institut Riyadh and the Alliance Française of Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with Gharem Studio, this program introduces participants to techniques of artistic work with biological organisms through hands-on workshops, lectures, and seminars.

Video : Emmanuelle Hubaut, Plant me performance, Gr_und, Berlin 2019, Perpektive grant.
Dates: November 24 – December 4, 2024 - Location: Gharem Studio, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Featured Curators
Art Laboratory Berlin :The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. It was founded in 2006 by an international team of art historians and artists – including Regine Rapp & Christian de Lut . There main goal is the presentation and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science and technology. In recent years, ALB has focused on the field of art, the life sciences and artistic research.
Instructors
Karine Bonneval – Ecosophy Artist. Based in central France, Karine’s transdisciplinary practice explores alternative ecologies for breathing, moving, and listening with the plant world.
Fara Peluso– Bio Artist and Researcher. Based in Berlin and affiliated with the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, Fara’s speculative research connects humans with living organisms and biological processes, with a special focus on algae.
Helena Nikonole:– New Media Artist and Curator. Currently working between Berlin and Istanbul, Helena’s work spans hybrid art, bio-semiotics, and Artificial Intelligence. She explores utopian post-human futures and critically examines today’s technological dystopias.

With SIANA
As part of the European Heritage Days
Sunday 22nd September
from 10am to 1pm at the greenhouse

365, Rue du Doyen André Guinier, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Free access in the greenhouse to the exhibition
by Karine Bonneval and Anais Tondeur.

You will be able to test the survey line continuously with
the 2km4 radio application from the Orbe collective with FlorianePochon.

There will also be time for artistic sharing:
at 10am and 12pm with Karine Bonneval and at 11am with Anais Tondeur.

All these activities are free.

Césaria Evora Gallery
Opening Thursday 19 September, 12 noon to 2 pm

exhibition from 19 September to 17 October, free admission Tuesday to Thursday, 11.30am to 2.30pm

bending - turning - transforming with plants
with SIANA
Galerie Césaria Evora, Université d'Evry, rue du Père André Jarlan,
91000 Evry-Courcouronnes.

An art-science and know-how workshop, as part of the cultural summer. In collaboration with the Friends of Pesselières, the Friends of the Tour de Vesvre and the Université Populaire Loire Vauvise.
With Karine Bonneval, visual artist, and Mehdi Harzallaoui, chiseller.

Monday 22 to Friday 26 July, 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.30pm.
In and around the barn of the Pesselières oil mill.

An exhibition at the Tour de Vesvre will open on 3 August.

Thursday 20 June from 6pm to 10pm: 1st festive get-together - on the plateau, in the Moulon district, with all the members of the collective.

From 6pm to 8.30pm, meet the project's artists on the 2km4 survey line. Karine Bonneval, Anaïs Tondeur and Floriane Pochon will be positioned at different points along the transect and will be sharing their work with the public.

From 8.30pm to 10pm, join us for a collective picnic with all the artists and scientists involved in the project. This will be an opportunity to discover the prototype of the "radio 2km4" application from the Orbe collective and to share a free drink.

You can already see the project's first visual experiments at an exhibition organised as part of the 2nd edition of Vegetatio, a day of plant encounters.
Come along from 1pm to 5pm to the greenhouse (bât. 365) on the University of Paris-Saclay Campus to discover the artistic research of Karine Bonneval and Anaïs Tondeur.

Practical information

Meet up on Thursday 20 June from 6pm to 10pm on the lawn of the Parc du Moulon (4 Rue Joliot Curie, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette). Don't forget to pack a picnic and bring a charged phone and headphones to discover "radio 2km4".

SIANA

From 11am to 2pm (bring a picnic) in the meadow above IDEEV next to the wild apple orchard, Mare du Vivier, 91190 Saint-Aubin.
Listening to pollinators, with Karine Bonneval and Fanny Rybak, bioacoustician at Neuropsi.

a SIANA project

Paris-Saclay University
Meeting at the pound, bat 330 10h30 am

With Ludwig Jardillier, microbiologist specialising in freshwater environments at the ESE.
sediment from a pond at the Orsay University site to create Wynogradsky's olonnes.
Orsay with a view to creating Wynogradsky olonnes.
With Fanny Rybak, bioacoustician at NeuroPsI, hydrophone listening of invertebrates present underwater.

A SIANA project

Exhibition from 4 May to 9 June at the Grantham Foundation, Canada

La carte n'est pas le territoire invites us to consider the ground as a lived space. Each of the two installations in the exhibition attempts to bridge the gap between cartographic tools, which abstractly dissect and synthesise environments, and the extraordinary richness of ecosystems. Formulated in the 1930s by the philosopher Alfred Korzybski, the aphorism that gives the exhibition its title expresses this distance between the representation of the world and reality.

Josiane Poirier, Artistic Director
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Friday 26 April from 5pm, come and dream with a tree from the Domaine départemental de Chamarande: Do trees dream of CO²? - Performance by Per Hüttner
Bookings by email: chamarande-reservation@cd-essonne.fr
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A tree from the domain will be fitted with a Pépipiaf (an ecophysiological measurement tool) that provides real-time feedback on changes in its diameter depending on the season, temperature, time of day and humidity. Carpets arranged in petals around it, above its roots, will allow us to lie down in contact with it.
Live, Karine Bonneval will record the activity of the soil near the roots, and Per Hüttner will supervise them with data from the tree, in quadraphonic sound. Taking the time to listen together to these sounds, those of other living beings around us. One person will be equipped with an EEG, and his or her brain waves, transformed into sound, will vibrate a speaker directed towards the roots of the tree. We'll listen to the delicate, subtle sounds, and let the tree hear the brain activity modulated directly by these sounds.

On Monday 22nd, from 2pm to 5pm, in the company of Stephane Bazot, a specialist in soils and plant-soil relationships at the ESE, we will be surveying 3 stations on the 2km4 transect to explore the soil.
Meeting point 2pm in front of IDEEV.

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