Ecotons artistic residence

2022 - 2023 - Ecotons CREAF - La Escocesa

Artists Rosa Llop and Gemma Paris challenge the accelerated perception of time and compare it with the extensive and cyclical experience of time in nature, where nothing is urgent or forever. They seek evidence on how to live the passing of time in a more sustainable, imprecise and connected way in the timelines offered by the biodiversity of the forest

The research took place through various drifts in which a careful observation and cataloguing of the temporalities present in the forest took place, looking for evidence of how nature represents time in the Can Balasc environment. The residents guided CREAF artists and scientists with the aim of speculating together on different ways of conceptualizing time through words, strokes, movement and other artistic techniques.

The result of this collective and transdisciplinary project has been the creation of a biodiverse and imprecise atlas that gathers all these possible timelines and opens the door to perceive time as something infinite that admits all possibilities.

2021 - 2022 - Ecotons CREAF - La Escocesa

The artistic research of Carola Moujan and Agustín Ortiz Herrera at CREAF has focused on their shared interest in plant communities and the possibility of speculating on possible transpositions of the sophisticated principles of communication, cooperation and interaction with the environment that plants develop in other environments.

Taking the forest ecosystem and, in particular, the Collserola Natural Park as the basis of their study, both artists have tried to understand how these cooperation networks are organized, what parameters are involved in their constitution, development and evolution.

This work has been the preamble and the basis for developing the Future Forest Diorama, an installation consisting of a network of terrariums built inside discarded objects. In each of them, a homeostatic system regulates the living conditions, such as humidity, temperature and air quality. Like botanical communities, they are connected to each other and control the surrounding activity through simple networks of machines and interacting through sounds, air movements and light modulations.