Jasmine Baume and Byron Gago‘s project was born from the desire to explore their respective backgrounds and experiences, as well as their shared interest in environmental issues.
At the end of their residency at the Fondation Thalie, they had the opportunity to conduct street interviews, visit the European Parliament, and get in contact with climate activists as well as participate in climate-related manifestations. They focus on how water-related issues are addressed in political discourse, with particular attention to the role of performativity and emotion in the making of the European Parliament debates. They aim to reappropriate those discourses to create a new perspective on the decision-making process while investigating the gap between politics and population.
Their research, visual works, and video documentation of The Recipe – a fictional performance inspired by European Parliament debates – is now available on their online platform www.thewatercase.com.
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Jasmine Baume (1997) obtained a Bachelor and a Master of Law at the University of Neuchâtel in 2018. She then studied between the KU Leuven and Neuchâtel to obtain a Master of Law. Jasmine has been a scientific collaborator in an ONG and is a legal intern at the Swiss Competition authorities since March 2022.
Byron Gago (1994) is a visual artist and researcher born in Ecuador in 1994, He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Milan at NABA with an editorial project which focuses on the current condition in the territories of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and in 2020 he concludes his Master at ECAL in Lausanne.
Yann Chateigné Tytelman, guest curator for the 2024 residency, will be guided laureates over of working sessions.