The Foundation is broadening its field of exploration to include ecological issues through a series of online and in pair conversations “Creators facing the climate emergency”. Artists, scientists and philosophers are invited to question today’s world and imagine new narratives to draw more desirable futures:
- Which commitment and responsibility do the artist and the philosopher have regarding this crisis?
- How are artistic and writing practices impacted? Which behaviour should individually and collectively be implemented?
- What new way to produce and display art while public engagement becomes increasingly immaterial?
- Which vision and creativeness to be impulsed for reinventing tomorrow’s world?
Themes: What do the Arctic and Antarctic poles teach us about forced or chosen solitude in the current crisis / The importance of storytelling: the teachings of great explorers such as Paul-Emile Victor and Jean-Louis Etienne / The artistic act as an expedition, studio work as isolation / Glaciers as social partners / The right to cold, a concept theorized by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Cited references
Johannes Kepler, L'Etrenne ou la neige sexangulaire, Vrin Paris, 1975
Barry Lopez, Rêves arctiques, Editions Gallmeister, 1986
