INSIGHT
Instinct
Exploring new ways of expression
Keywords: creative process, idea exchange, arts to STEM
Who?
CERN in Geneva, Corporación Chilena de Video y Artes Electrónicas (CChV) in Chile.
Artists Chloé Delarue & Patricia Domínguez.
What?
This project connects one artist from each of the two countries for a dual residency, to research and explore new expressions in connection with fundamental science. Both Switzerland and Chile are home to some of the most singular scientific instruments in the world, dedicated to understand the origins and the evolution of the universe.
During their residencies, the artists explore the scientific sites, their extraordinary locations and scale – both laboratories and observatories – to develop new expressions in their artistic practices, and to further incorporate them into art productions. In this unique exploratory residency, the artists collaborate with and receive support from scientists and engineers, as well as the staff of the host research facilities.
Why?
This case aims to explore the diversity of physics and the sciences of the universe and how these fields of research may inspire innovation in the arts. Created in 2019, the goal of Simetría’s main goal is to foster further developments on the dialogues between science and arts, reflecting about the research at remote locations and at laboratories and observatories.
Dedication to understand the origins and the evolution of the universe.
Results
The main results of the work of the two artists is to see multiple perspectives and explore the field of science and develop in co-creation an art production, the collaboration between the two countries helps to understand the origins and the evolution of the universe by the facilitation of scientists and researchers.
Born in 1986, Chloé Delarue produces installations (sculpture, video and sound) under the TAFAA acronym, standing for Toward A Fully Automated Appearance, a combination of several installations, which the artist calls “environments”. These environments are elements of the re-composition of a more or less abstract body. Once these elements overlap, they create a sort of spectrum, a material and immaterial flow of information. After a first MAMA degree in 2012 from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art – Villa Arson in Nice, she continued her studies at HEAD-Genève in the Fine Arts Master in 2014.
Patricia Domínguez, born in Chile in 1984, focuses on tracing relationships of work, affection, obligation and emancipation among living species in an increasingly corporate cosmos. Her studies include a Master’s degree in Studio Art from Hunter College, New York (2013) and a Certificate in Botanical Illustration and Natural Sciences from the New York Botanical Garden NYBG (2011). She is currently the director of the ethnobotanical platform studying the healing cosmologies of native plants, called Studio Vegetalista.
Sources
Corporación Chilena de Video y Artes Electrónicas. 2021. Las artistas Patricia Domínguez (Chile) y Chloé Delarue (Suiza) son seleccionadas para participar en la segunda edición de Simetría | Corporación Chilena de Video. [online] Available at: https://cchv.cl/las-artistas-patricia-dominguez-chile-y-chloe-delarue-suiza-son-seleccionadas-para-participar-de-la-segunda-edicion-de-simetria/ [Accessed 25 March 2022].