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  • Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet

    75013 Paris
    +33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
    Postal address
    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
    5 rue Thomas Mann
    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13

Seminar of the Académie vivante directed by Emmanuelle Fabre

April 6, May 4, 11, 25 and June 8, 2016

The Académie Vivante (Living Academy), new exper­i­mental space of research co-directed by the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit and Bétonsalon – Center of Art and Research, pre­sents a sem­inar focusing on redesigning the con­cept of metabolism through exam­ining the emer­gence of ideas and behaviours.

Driven by the mirage of a breath of fresh air, the spon­ta­neous gen­er­a­tion, soft­ware reboots, new trends, etc., the sem­inar seeks to nav­i­gate the pen­dulum between absorp­tion and prop­a­ga­tion; phases of desire and impos­si­bility. Is free-will or cre­ativity a mere reduc­tion to how we metabolise that which sur­rounds us?

Directed by Emmanuelle Fabre (Laboratory Manager of Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes, INSERM / CNRS), this sem­inar invites par­tic­i­pants to explore—through var­ious approaches and sci­en­tific dis­ci­plines—the phe­nomenon of the emer­gence of new thoughts, of inno­va­tive forms and behaviours and changing paradigms.


Past

Wednesday June 8, 5:50-8pm
Session 5 : " Rupture and change in the paradigm of his­tory of sciences "
Seminar closing meeting with Emmanuelle Fabre (CNRS ), Jonathan Weitzman ( Labex Who Am I? ) and Melanie Mermod

Location: Centre Georges Pompidou
Meeting place: in main Hall, after the secu­rity gates

The con­cept of cycles of civ­i­liza­tion (periods of glory, break, decay, etc.) par­tially exist still today in many dis­ci­plines, from geog­raphy to art his­tory, through eco­nomics, biology, etc.
Thinking of the his­tory of sciences as a suc­ces­sion of thought paradigms inter­spersed by moments of rup­ture, shaped by a trep­i­da­tion for con­sid­ering knowl­edge as an evo­lu­tion that tends towards pro­cess.

Session 5 : " Rupture and change in the paradigm of history of sciences "

Wednesday May 25, 6-8pm
Session 4 : " The emer­gence of behavior at the chro­mo­some level ", meeting around the research work of Emmanuelle Fabre (CNRS)

Location: INSERM IUH Saint-Louis
Bâtiment Jean Bernard, second level
Hôpital Saint-Louis
1 avenue Claude Vellefaux
75010 Paris

What new tools or heuristic approaches can be used to demon­strate the cur­rent hypotheses of the Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes Unit? Ten years ago, Emmanuelle Fabre founded a research pro­ject with physi­cist Christopher Zimmer that was inter­ested in astro­nom­ical research. This exper­i­mental col­lab­o­ra­tion has applied var­ious methods for ana­lyzing the posi­tions of the stars with the arms of chro­mo­somes.

Emmanuelle Fabre offers par­tic­i­pants to expe­ri­ence a col­lec­tive reflec­tion that goes beyond her own research on the polar­iza­tion of chro­mo­somes. The researcher seeks, alongside the ideas and con­tri­bu­tions of the par­tic­i­pants (con­crete and abstract), to explore the pos­si­bility for new research pro­jects. While con­cep­tual block­ages and mate­rials are often feared, they offer inves­ti­ga­tions spaces that gen­erate new per­spec­tives and approaches.

Emmanuelle Fabre is a researcher at the CNRS. Director of research, Fabre leads the Biology and Dynamics of Chromosomes Unit at l’Université Paris Diderot. Her research focuses on fun­da­mental ques­tions of cel­lular orga­ni­za­tion, espe­cially that of the nuclei. Fabre’s cur­rent research inter­ests include the dynamics of chro­mo­somes when they suffer damage, such as double-strand breaks in DNA.

Wednesday May 11, 6pm-8pm
Session 3: "Relationship between science, art, inno­va­tion and cooking"
Speaker: Christophe Lavelle (CNRS / Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle / ISCC, Paris)

Location : Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris

At the begin­ning of the 1970s, Gault and Millau tried to breath a breath of fresh air into French cuisine by encour­aging chefs to opt for a new way of cooking, with new prin­ci­ples (light sauces, shorter cooking, and high­lighting inven­tive­ness). Twenty years later, the wave of Molecular Gastronomy is sweeping the kitchen, with the use of new ingre­di­ents (mostly hydro­col­loids from the food industry) and new tech­niques (whip­ping siphons, liquid nitrogen, sous-vide). Today, the evo­lu­tion con­tinues with food-pairing and « note-à-note » cuisine, alongside a series with new con­straints (envi­ron­mental, eth­ical) that are becoming sig­nif­i­cantly pressing issues.

Working at the National Museum of Natural History and the Institute of Communication Sciences in Paris, Christophe Lavelle is inter­ested in all facets of food (phys­ical, chem­ical, bio­log­ical, anthro­po­log­ical, tech­nical, artistic). He teaches in sev­eral higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions (Universities Paris VI, Paris VII, Cergy-Pontoise, Aix-Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, SupBioTech Paris, Le Cordon Bleu) and reg­u­larly lec­tures to the public and food pro­fes­sionals in France and abroad.

Session 3 of the Académie vivante : "Relationship between science, art, innovation and cooking" with Christophe Lavelle, May 11, 2016. Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris

Wednesday May 4, 6pm-8pm
Session 2: "Psychoanalysis and the Emergence of Autonomous Thought"
Speaker: Jérémie Sinzelle, psy­chi­a­trist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst based in Paris

Location: Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire de Médecine (BIUM)

For the second ses­sion, Emmanuelle Fabre dis­cussed with Jérémie Sinzelle (psy­chi­a­trist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst) ques­tions con­cerning the emer­gence of ideas through the prism of psy­cho­anal­ysis. How do new ideas emerge? What are the con­di­tions that facil­i­tate this emer­gence of ideas in the con­text of psy­cho­anal­ysis? How does psy­chi­atry and psy­cho­anal­ysis work on these ques­tions regarding artistic and sci­en­tific cre­ation?

Doctor by trade, Jérémie Sinzelle is a psy­chi­a­trist-psy­cho­an­a­lyst prac­ticing pri­vately in Paris and working at a con­sul­ta­tion centre for chil­dren. In the aca­demic field, Sinzelle has pre­vi­ously focused on the his­tory of schizophrenia. His cur­rent research explores the issues con­cerning the appear­ance of con­cepts in psy­chi­atric seman­tics and dis­courses that estab­lish new med­ical patholo­gies.

Session 2 of the Académie vivante : "Psychoanalysis and the Emergence of Autonomous Thought", May 4, 2016, with Jérémie Sinzelle, May 4, 2016. Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire de Médecine (BIUM), Paris

Wednesday April 6, 6-8pm, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris
Session 1: « The pol­li­na­tion of ideas: Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga » directed by Emmanuelle Fabre (Inserm, CNRS)

In the frame­work of the Académie vivante work­shop, the first course of the sem­inar begun with an encounter with the art­work of Otobong Nkanga, Contained Measures of Shifting States, pre­sented at the Centre Pompidou from 11 April to 13 June 2016, to inves­ti­gate the mech­a­nisms of the emer­gence of dis­courses and their capacity for spec­u­la­tion.

Session 1 of the Académie vivante: « The pollination of ideas: Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga » directed by Emmanuelle Fabre, with Otobong Nkanga, 6 April, 2016, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris

The Académie vivante is supported by the Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso.

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