Exploring the invisible: performances, installations and debates

The AgroParisTech Disputes: Invisible animal

6pm-8pm - Amphi Dorothy Hodgkin

Synthetic meat, vegetable substitutes for meat... New technologies are emerging as solutions to several major issues: livestock farming as a major emitter of greenhouse gases, and the issue of animal welfare.
The "French FoodTech" intends to impose itself as a key player in our new eating habits. But is the problem the meat or the factory?

• Jocelyne PORCHER, a sociologist at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), has worked on the suffering of employees in large-scale livestock farms and industrial slaughterhouses, hidden from view. She defends the vision of a new contract to be built in our relationship with animals.
• Gilles TRYSTRAM is a researcher in food and ten years at the head of AgroParisTech. He has seen the question of our relationship with meat and the food industry gradually impose itself in the public debate.

Launch of the event "Exploring the invisible

8.15pm-8.45pm - Grand Amphi

Sylvie RETAILLEAU, President of the University of Paris-Saclay, and Pierre-Paul ZALIO, President of the ENS Paris-Saclay, launch the event highlighting the importance of the encounter between research, creation and training at the heart of the ENS Paris-Saclay and the University of Paris-Saclay.

Installations, projections, immersive events

La ligne rouge

Interactive behavioural installation by Filipe Vilas-Boas and Guillaume Hutzler.
Production: SIANA / Diagonale Paris-Saclay – Scène de recherche-ENS Paris-Saclay

La scène de lumière

In situ light creation, installation by Eric Michel and Gain Scenography.
The garden and the architecture of Renzo Piano's building are the subject of an in situ light creation, which combines the talents of artist and teacher Eric Michel and the students of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School. The Aurora installation designed by Gain Scenography accompanies this creation, commissioned by the Scène de recherche.

Homogenitus

Installation-performance and speculative design by Marie-Julie Bourgeois

Homogenitus are artificial clouds generated by human activities. In the face of rising temperatures, solar radiation management (SRM) techniques propose to produce artificial clouds to reduce - theoretically - the reflectivity of surfaces.
On the borderline between art, speculative design and science, the project proposes various productions that feed the debate on climate manipulation with humour and fantasy.

La grande accélération

Visual and sound installation by Florent Di Bartolo and Xavier Hautbois

The "Great Acceleration" is a visual and sound installation project which focuses on the evolution of the melting ice. It is based on data simulating the retreat of the Ross Barrier in the Antarctic region. The ambition of the project is to offer a sensitive experience of climate change through the evolution of an audiovisual landscape built from the analysis of scientific data showing the flow and erosion of the ice over the next 100 years.

Le patrimoine de l'ENS Paris-Saclay à découvrir

Bassins du jardin de Jean-Marie Appriou

School garden

Dragonflies. The brambles and the frog. The boat. The cypresses. The bats. The five cast aluminium sculptures (1% - 2020) presented in the garden ponds from east to west, unfold a cyclical narrative according to the course of the sun, like that of day following night, of death following life, in a perpetual and immutable cycle.

Spectacles et performances

Guitars and canopy

19h15 and 21h30 - School garden
Nicolas Perrin, Alexis Tessier, Tom Mansion, Louis Lalay
Time: 30 min

In Improvisation #in situ 1, a trio of electric guitars with digital sensors improvise sounds recorded and transformed in situ from the new buildings of ENS Paris-Saclay. Proposal from the workshop "Fabrique ton (ENS)trument" of the Scène de recherche.
In Portrait d'Horizon, Nicolas Perrin in solo for electric guitar and sensory sensors proposes a strange musical journey towards a horizon that is both microscopic and coming from the highest part of the wild canopy.