https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020/04/28/melodies-en-sous-sol_1785552
Swarming humus, crackling glaciers, crystalline symphonies... When the artists reveal the soundtrack of the planet, our ears discover an unknown world.

Deseasoning
Cartoon Chronicle # 46

Drawings: Cathy Beauvallet
Text: Dominique Delajot

https://www.mcbourges.com/carnet-de-bord-46/

Arteppes, Mikado art center, Annecy
opening on Thursday 12 March at 6.30 pm
exhibition from March 12 to April 25

Sarah Battaglia and Karine Bonneval

"Concordance is the salt of the wild life, which makes its adventure on earth exciting. (...) An anthropomorphism of symbiosis. "Guillaume Logé, Wild Renaissance

"Embracing your shadow in a dream
my bones bent like flowers."
Alejandra Pizarnik, Approximations, Bueno Aires 1956-1958

Concordanse sauvage is this sensitive dialogue that is danced between the animal and plant world. Lulled by the delicate curves of nature in perpetual motion, the exhibition is lived and revealed, with harmony, through the universe of two women artists, Karine Bonneval and Sarah Battaglia.

The bone, inserted by the presence of the ceramic bundle, makes the link between plant and vertebrate beings. In my imagination the bone is present in the forest, in the subsoil, it makes the link with the vegetable kingdom.
Sarah Battaglia

Plants have a different way of being in the world than we do. How do we move with them?
How can we listen to what is happening around us, but also under our feet?
Karine Bonneval

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Radio DW Akademie
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Have you ever wondered what soil sounds like? No? Even ecology professor Mathias Rillig, who runs a lab at Berlin’s Free University researching soil, plants and fungus, had never thought about the sound of soil. That's until he started working with artist Karine Bonneval, who was determined to listen to what’s going on underground.

The artist who co-authored a paper and expanded my professional network
Karine Bonneval’s residency in Matthias Rillig’s lab, and a question he first dismissed as silly, had unexpected consequences for each of them.

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Karine Bonneval, Artist
Matthias Rillig, Plant Ecologist, Freie Universität Berlin
Can listen to the soil, what sounds could it make? We walk on a complete universe, a complex mixture of living beings, nutrients and minerals in constant interaction. Artist Karine Bonneval and plant ecologist Matthias Rillig started collaborating in 2016 – exploring the acoustic information carried by the soil. By making its voice heard, they open up new vistas of the world around us.

2 conversations : 11 am and noon, greenhouse of the botanical garden, Berlin

Launched for the first time in 2015, the call for projects "Composing knowledge to better understand the challenges of the contemporary world" aims to support transdisciplinary and collaborative knowledge production. The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation is convinced that in order to meet the challenges of today's society, it is necessary to create spaces for the hybridization of knowledge between science and the humanities, the arts and society.
Vertimus: Supported by Studio Décalé, an independent association specialising in art and science, the project was conceived by the visual artist Karine Bonneval, in partnership with researchers (French and foreign) specialised in plants. This project calls on a wide range of knowledge and know-how: scientific knowledge with the involvement of INRA; artistic techniques with the visual artist Karine Bonneval, the performer Emilie Pouzet, the composer Emmanuel Hubaut, the curator Natacha Seignolles; philosophical theories contributed by the philosopher of ethics Karen Houle. The project aims to give citizens new keys to read living things in order to develop empathy with the plant world around us and thus understand our environment with a new perspective.

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From November 14, 2019 to January 26, 2020
5 rue des Grands Champs in Orléans
La borne is 10 years old
Group exhibition

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of La borne, a microarchitecture for creative work and travelling exhibitions in the Centre - Val de Loire region, Le pays où le ciel est toujours bleu is pleased to invite you to the openings of the exhibitions La borne a 10 ans and Collection 2009/2019 at 5 rue des Grands-Champs in Orléans on Thursday 14 November 2019 at 6.30 pm.

For these exhibitions, we are pleased to welcome 10 artists (one per season) who participated in this adventure to the gallery. The project area presents all the exhibitions held in and related to La borne from November 2009 to November 2019.

Vertimus is the presentation of the new research work and ideas developed during my three-week residency at Soil and Crop Sciences in Cornell at the invitation of Johannes Lehmann.

Bonneval will present her collaborative projects across art and science around the topic of trees. She will discuss Dendromacy, a series of workshops, installations, and films developed with teams of ecophysiologists that considers tree intimacies and rethinking trees; Listen to the soil, a collaboration with fungi specialists, microbiologists, bioacousticians, and soil scientists from Paris, Berlin, and Ithaca that is based on recent research on linkages between sound, soil, plant root behavior, and fungi; and Vertimus, or, how to move with plants, a collaborative project with Eric Badel from PIAF, INRA Lab in Clermont Ferrand, France.

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