12.06.19 Workshop SIRTA, École polytechnique, Palaiseau 13-14.06.19 Conferences and round tables Cité internationale des arts, Paris International Interdisciplinary 14.06.19 Screening & debate about the Symposium June 12-15, 2019, imaginary of�Dune Studio des Ursulines, Paris Paris, France 15.06.19 https://yakari.polytechnique.fr/gsw Conferences, kid lab, art installations Maison des métallos, Paris Garden2ff the�Sky ExplorationWater of alternative water sources defining different relationships with our environment Abstract Water is the essence of life on our planet. With climate change and industrial agriculture, water resources are diminishing at unprecedented speed. Could the atmosphere, a diluted ocean of aerial moisture, be the solution to provide fresh water? Could we interrogate the cosmos in our links to the mist? But will “the sky’s the limit” become another commodity for profit? Or will we open a tap of imagination for the benefit of all? In this interdisciplinary conference, we propose to face climate change by cultivating together new approaches in the exploration of alternative sources of water. We are calling for post-anthropocentric narratives, entanglements between nature, culture and technology, insisting on our interdependence with our environment and playing string figures with companion species, as phrased by Donna Haraway. Our explorations will lead us to wander through Gilles Clément’s gardens, which propose a new form of environmental exchange accessible to all, and in which the gardener rejoices in the art of observation “with as little means as possible” (The Garden in Motion). Throughout this journey we will reflect upon the socio-political, scientific and philosophic implications of water in the atmosphere and space. In the tension between infinite desires and finite resources, shall we become gardeners who creatively express their protection, responsibility and love into the world? Or should the figure of the gardener be replaced by the gardener gardened as in the human comedy L’Arroseur arrosé by Louis Lumière (1895)? You are cordially invited to experience voices of various ‘gardeners’: artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and architects, as well as to open and share your own gardens! Committee 1fffffffffffffffffffffffff Conference MainAdvisors: • Ana Rewakowicz, Artist and Researcher, École polytechnique • Jean-Marc Chomaz, Artist and Physicist, École polytechnique / Director CNRS, Co-Head of Chaire arts & sciences 1ffffffffffffffffffffffffff Conference AdvisoryBoard • Carole Écoffet, Researcher, EnsadLab and Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse / CNRS / EnsadLab • Manuelle Freire, Researcher, art & science Post-Doc, Chaire arts & sciences 1fffffffffffff Executive organizers • Julie Sauret, Communication-Project Manager, Chaire arts & sciences • Christine Lavaur, Communication Coordinator, Chaire Développement durable 1ffffff Website • Do Chi Toai Vu, Systems Engineer, École polytechnique Short Program Wednesday June 12, 2019 SIRTA, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau 10am - 6pm Workshop on atmospheric data Thursday June 13, 2019 Cité Internationale des arts, Paris 4 10am - 12:30pm Session 1: Rivers in the Sky Keynote Speaker: Veronica Strang - “Serpentine Skies: celestial journeys with hydrotheological water beings” Round Table 1: R. Bidault-Waddington, C.Damesin, M. Delbecq, (Moderator - A. Rewakowicz) 2pm - 5pm Session 2: Atmospheric Scenographies Keynote Speaker: Jamila Bargach - “An Ode Celebrating Fog” Round Table 2: ML.Nadal, D.Peysson, A. Vasak, (Moderator - C. Ecoffet) 9am - 5pm Video Installations 4.30pm - 7pm Cocktail at Cafe des arts Friday June 14, 2019 Cité Internationale des arts, Paris 4 10am - 12:30pm Session 3: Environmental Narratives Keynote Speaker: Karolina Sobecka - “Closure assumptions” Round Table 3: M.Berthou, MJ. Bourgeois, P. Hegaret & V. Boquet, S. Soussan, (Moderator - V. Vesna) 2pm - 5pm Session 4: Every Drop Counts Keynote Speaker: Daniel Beysens - “Dew and Dew Harvesting” Round Table 4 : Y. El Turk, A. Rigobello & V. Roussel, (Moderator - L. Dodson) Artistic performance by : Geneviève Favre-Petroff - “Expecting to Fly” Studio des Ursulines, Paris 5 6.30pm - 9pm Screening of Frank Pavich’s documentary ‘‘Jodorowsky’s Dune’’ (2013) Debate with: D.Bouchon, N. Fructus, S. Lainé (Moderator - C. Ecoffet) Saturday June 15, 2019 Maison de Metallos, Paris 11 2:30 pm - 5pm Session 5: Gardening Future Keynote Speaker: Gilles Clément - ‘‘We are in the water’’ Keynote Speaker: Anne-Marie Lagrange - ‘‘Exoplanets and distant worlds’’ Keynote Speaker: Nicolas Reeves - ‘‘Atmospherics : genealogy and descendancy of a cloud harp’’ 2pm - 5pm KidLab 5.45pm - 6.30pm Art-Science Installation, Music, and Performance �Garden the Sky Water International Symposium� École polytechnique Cité Internationale des arts, Paris 4 Maison des métallos, Paris 11 Location Palaiseau, auditorium SIRTA Studio des Ursulines, Paris 5 Workshop Conferences, round tables, video installations (mainly in English) Conférences (en français) Kid labs Activities Screening and debate about “Dune” Arts-sciences installations Days & Schedule June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 10am - 6pm 10am - 11am: Conference Session�1 Session1ff3 Video Installations Rivers in the Sky Environmental Narratives Veronica Strang, Karolina Sobecka Workshop on “ Serpentine Skies : celestial “Closure assumptions” Atmospheric Data journeys with hydrotheological water beings ” 11.15am - 12.30am: Round table R. Bidault-Waddington, C. Damesin M. Berthou, MJ. Bourgeois, B. Antoine-Loeff, M. Delbecq, P. Hegaret, S. Soussan, moderator: A. Rewakowicz moderator: V. Vesna 12.30am - 2pm: Lunch break 2pm - 3pm: Conference 2pm - 5.30pm: Conferences 2pm - 5pm: Satellite Session�2 Session�4 Session�5 Activities Atmospheric Every drop counts Gardening future A. Meyer-Brandis, S. Myllyla, J. Olariu J. S. Myllyla, A. Meyer-Brandis, Jardins cosmiques Kid Labs Scenographies 2pm - 3 pm Organized by Jamila Bargach, Daniel Beysens, B. Ammar-Khodja “ An Ode Celebrating Fog ” “ Dew and dew harvesting ” Gilles Clément, 3.15pm-4.30pm: Round table “ Nous sommes dans l’eau ” ML. Nadal, D. Peysson, Y. El Turk, A. Rigobello, 3.15pm - 4.1 5 pm “ Sky” A. Vasak, V. Roussel, Labofactory moderator: C. Écoffet moderator: L. Dodson Anne-Marie Lagrange, {J.M. Chomaz, F. Fabbri, “ Exoplanètes ” L. Karst, G. Louis} Art Performance: 4.30pm - 7pm G. Favre Petroff 4.30pm - 5.30 pm Cocktail at Café des arts Nicolas Reeves, “ Atmosphéries : généalogie et descendance d’une harpe à nuages ” 6.30pm - 9pm 5.45pm - 6.30pm Cello solo performance: S. Ballon Screening and debate about “Dune” “ Nues”: video and music performance: C. Boutilier, G. Pareyron, L. Levert D. Bouchon, N. Fructus, S. Lainé, moderator: C. Écoffet Detailed Program Wednesday June 12th, 2019 10am - 6pm, SIRTA, observatory of École polytechnique, Palaiseau 1ffffffffVisit of SIRTA ‘‘Instrumental Site of Research by Atmospheric Remote Sensing’’ 1ffffffff Workshop on the use of atmospheric data. Sky observation is a major human concern, as we all live immerged in this fluid and atmospheric phenomena that impacts and constrains life. In meteorology, water- related events, including cloudiness, rain, snow have been traditionally monitored by trained human eyes and progressively replaced by automatic instruments that interact with these events in a passive (rain gauges, cameras, radiometers) or active (lidars, radars, light emitters, hot plates) manner, giving us a measure of the atmosphere constrains and state. The workshop at SIRTA proposes to discover atmospheric water “observation” through four keynotes speeches and linked questions: 1fffIs measuring objective? 1ffA tour in atmospheric water monitoring 1ffffReviewing the water cycle by experiments 1fffffWater observation through “other’s eyes”? Work through studies from instruments and instrumental synergy. The journey will take place in open air, on the SIRTA instrumental platform, surrounded by all its instruments, on École polytechnique’s campus, in front of its lake. After every question-session, an open-discussion time will allow the participants and the guides to exchange on the experience. Thursday June 13th, 2019 9:30am - 12:30am / 2pm - 7pm, Cité internationale des arts, Paris 1fffConference1fff Lectures will be mainly in English, with abstracts provided in French. >> Auditorium (-1) 9:30am Welcoming 9:45am Introduction by Ana Rewakowicz, artist and researcher at École polytechnique 10am 1fffConference Session 1: Rivers in the Sky Keynote Speaker: Veronica Strang Cultural anthropologist, Director of Durham University’s Interdisciplinary Institute of Advanced Study “Serpentine Skies celestial journeys with hydrotheological water beings” Living in ways that demanded close and collaborative environmental relationships, early human societies worshipped non-human deities that manifested the world’s elemental powers. Recognizing water’s essentiality to all living kinds, they observed its cyclical movements between earth and sky, and the journeys of celestial bodies. Ancient origin stories describe vast water serpent beings ‘rearing up’ from primal seas and creating the world from their own bodies, or ‘spitting out’ totemic beings to form the landscape and everything in it. Representing water, bringing water, indeed, composed of water, such serpentine beings manifested hydrological and spiritual cycles, carrying both water and life between fluid underworlds and heavens, and the material, earthly world. Water serpent beings took many cultural forms. As