Sciences Perceptibles
Artistic Research, Workshop & Film
art workshops for scientists in nature science
Sciences Perceptibles proposes an artistic pedagogy of attention: a space where art and science meet as equal modes of inquiry, and where our relationship to knowledge — and to the living world — can be gently recalibrated.
Sciences Perceptibles is an artistic research project situated at the intersection of art and the natural sciences. It explores what happens when scientists are invited to translate their expertise into artistic form.
The project unfolds through the development of an interdisciplinary workshop for professionals in the natural sciences. Participants are invited to transpose a moment of their scientific practice — a gesture, a method, a field situation — into an artistic process. Expertise is approached as embodied knowledge: shaped by years of experience, ethical choices, compromises, uncertainties, and relationships with human and more-than-human worlds.
To develop the workshop, I conduct interviews with researchers, collect narratives and observe practices. Through experimental sessions and a full-day workshop format, I construct a pedagogical dramaturgy — a sequence of exercises that creates conditions for searching, deepening and sharing expertise. The workshop becomes a space of translation and displacement, where scientific knowledge is re-experienced sensorially and reflectively.
At its core, the project moves through three intertwined dimensions:
translation (from scientific language to poetic and visual forms), expertise (understood as situated, practice-based knowledge),
and more-than-human worlds (bees, soil, plants, animals, bacteria), whose presence gradually emerges as central to the project’s ecological motivation.
As part of the project, I formed a 50-minute video collage (continuous loop). The film does extends the workshop. Composed of images, sounds, fragments of interviews and gestures collected throughout the process, it performs the same movement of translation the workshop proposes. The video becomes both documentation and autonomous artwork — a space where different forms of knowledge resonate without being modeled to produce explanation.
Sciences perceptibles Video Abstract _ with citations from Anna L.Tsing, the muschroom at the end of the world
photo documentation of the atelier sessions/ the collage are pieces made during the workshop by the participants
