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Anaïs Tondeur & Marine Legrand
Biosphere and body fluids
As part of the 4th season of the Créateurs Urgence Climat programme, the Fondation Thalie has joined forces with the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (October 2023 to May 2024) to invite artist Anaïs Tondeur to discuss with environmental anthropology researcher Marine Legrand.
On this occasion, they will explore the relationship between the biosphere and bodily fluids – such as milk, blood and tears – from an ecofeminist perspective that lies at the crossroads between art, anthropology and ecology. Tonder and Legrand invite us to think about the relationship between these fluids that circulate between living beings and their environment, and to reconfigure our understanding of the interrelationships that run through living things. Through artistic practice and writing, they approach the invention of rituals around these fluids as a link between poetic practice and politics, opening up the possibility of a new ethic.
Speakers
Anaïs Tondeur‘s artistic practice is rooted in an ecological approach. Composing a kind of laboratory of attentions, she develops her work through investigation and fiction, presented in the form of walks, installations, photographs or protocols associated with alchemy. Through worlds that implode, she questions the deep interdependencies that link our human existence to the fabric of the living world, using images developed in a mode of production that is as close as possible to and respectful of the environments in which we live, by means of photographic protocols, sensitive experiments or speculative narratives, presented in the form of installations or collective surveys. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martin (2008) and the Royal College of Arts (2010) in London, winner of the Art of Change 21 Prize and recipient of the Cyber Arts Honourable Mention, Ars Electronica (2019), and has presented and exhibited her work in international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris – FR), Serpentines Galleries (London – UK), Bozar (Brussels – BE), Pavillon français “Lieux Infinis* Biennale Di Venezia (Venezia – IT).
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