Biennale en Commun(s) / HABITER, arts numériques et hybrides
20.03.2025 - 20.05.2025 Université Évry Paris-Saclay, Bâtiment Facteur Cheval
Évry-Courcouronnes (F)
Manufacture poétique d’icebergs artificiels - Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff
A frozen safe, Antarctica constitutes the largest reserve of fresh water on the planet, accounting for approximately 90%. Its ground is rich, and about 20% of the world's reserves of oil, gas, and minerals are believed to be buried there.
Officially, a neutral and demilitarised territory, reserved for scientific study, Antarctica is a terra nullius, belonging to no one. The Antarctic Treaty rules out any possibility of exploiting natural resources until 2048. Unofficially, some scientific bases serve as flags for states to claim a part of the continent.
In 2012, under the guise of scientific research, the Russians drilled up to 3,768 meters to test hydrocarbon extraction technologies in polar environments. The Chinese mapped the continent's resources.
The installation Manufacture Poétique d’Icebergs Artificiels represents the map of the Antarctic continent, divided into 350 iceberg units. Audiences are invited to rearrange these units into a new, artificial topography of the territory. This staging becomes the play-support to explore future challenges related to the white continent, blending geopolitical fiction and geostrategic projection.
Les Unités Icebergs – Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff en collaboration avec Vanessa Bell
The iceberg unit is a fictional unit that fits in a child's hand and measures the cryosphere and its disappearance. These units - which could be described as pixels or satellite tiles - evoke the division of resources into geo-strategic parcels. And they raise questions about geo-political borders and fractures.
By ironically reusing the codes of projections used in industrial drawings, these prints weave several narrative threads that echo our immediate present and future.
Lecture par Nature - Disqualifier l'univers
15.01.2025 Organised by Chroniques
Bibliothèque de Berre l'’Étang (F)
Disqualifier l'univers by Barthélémy Antoine-Loeff & Vanessa Bell is an immersive performance combining light, ice and magma, exploring the states of matter in the universe. Inspired by the demotion of Pluto into a dwarf planet, it questions the way we categorise and limit the world. Through ice volcanoes and floating mountains discovered on Pluto, Barthélémy Antoine Loeff and Vanessa Bell weave a narrative about New Worlds and exoplanets, echoing our own environmental disqualification.
Lecture par Nature - Nous entrons dans l’heure bleue comme en nous-mêmes
14.01.2025 - 01.02.2025 Organised by Chroniques
Médiathèque Berre-L'Étang (F)
This exhibition takes a unique look at water, highlighting its fragility: the birth of an artificial glacier to symbolise the fight against its disappearance, and an interactive experience based on the geopolitical issues surrounding Antarctica... A sensitive experience to help you grasp contemporary environmental issues. Three installations to see and experience: Tipping Point, La Manufacture poétique d'icebergs artificiels and Unités d'iceberg.
Exhibition by Barthélemy Antoine-Loeff in collaboration with Vanessa Bell.