On December 9, 2020, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study in the journal Nature titled “The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass”. The article summary sets the scene: “We find that Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020 (±6), the anthropogenic mass,Continue reading “The science-fiction scenario of an artificial planet is already here”
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Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies
Artists’ bodies in motion versus the disembodied digital future Over a period of twelve years, from 1976 to 1988, performance artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) explored a personal and artistic fusion. Their performances are breathtaking, both spectacular and physically complex. They engaged them at the limits of the body, of its strength, resistance and exhaustion.Continue reading “Performances by Marina Abramovic and Ulay : Physical interactions between two moving bodies “
Contemporary art: Tarek Atoui, a passer of vibrations
Tarek Atoui has exhibited his work “The Ground” at the Bourse du Commerce, the contemporary art center created by François Pinault, until September 6, 2021. He had already presented it at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2019. Tarek Atoui is first and foremost a musician, specializing in electroacoustics. As an artist, he explores the vibrationsContinue reading “Contemporary art: Tarek Atoui, a passer of vibrations”
Once upon a time… the atmosuicide of Earthlings
“Air is the only matter we inhabit”. This quote, reported by architectural historian Cyrille Simonnet in Brève histoire de l’air, is attributed to Yves Klein. Do we often think of “inhabiting matter”? Not really! Yet we live in the air, that omnipresent material in our daily lives that we neither see nor feel.
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