SciArt Project
The JRC SciArt project was established in January 2016, with the objective of triggering innovation in research and bring together science, art and society. Strongly influenced by the JRC mission of doing science in support of policy, it gives scientists, artists and policymakers the opportunity to meet and work together. They discuss, investigate and explore the wide intersecting plains between art and science, with a tension towards impacting our collectivities.
Yet, in the first instance, the project tries to create a safe haven to freely roam possible worlds, pursue impossible projects and to embrace failure.
As such, it is part of the ongoing innovation of the JRC as service to the European citizen.
OPENED 24/05/2024: NATURARCHY EXHIBITION
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In the context of the NaturArchy exhibition, and as part of its public engagement programme, the Le Biais Vert collective presented Nos Futurs Radio. Joining forces with Radio Campus, broadcasts took place throughout June and July 2024 on Saturday afternoons, giving voice to artists, collectives, associations, activists, and all people located in Belgium who concretely work to rethink ways of inhabiting the city and the world and believe that we can rebuild relationships with living things without harming them.
You can find information about these broadcasts on the dedicated page of our website as well as on iMAL's website.
Recordings will be accessible on the JRC SciArt Media Archive as they become available.
These (toxic) relations are forever – PFAS Pollution as a threat to water resilience in the EU - @ iMAL/La Vallee Rue Adolphe Lavallée 39, 1080 Bruxelles on 27/06/2024, 17h30-20h. Please register using this link (deadline 24 June)
On Thursday 20/06/2024 at 09:00 AM CET, JRC SciArt project leader, Adriaan Eeckels and Resonances IV artist Penelope Cain will take part in Special Session 127 titled Art and Science in Degrowth: A ManiQuesto as part of the the 10th International Degrowth Conference and the 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) in Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain). The session will probe the importance of the arts for degrowth, the points of tension, contradiction and possibility.
On Friday 14/06 at 19:30-20:30 PM CET at iMAL (Brussels), by the Nos Futurs Radio station, a panel discussion titled Belonging to Land & Country in the Anthropocene will be held, engaging with the role of vernacular, local and indigenous knowledge in transforming our food systems.
On Friday 14/06 at 10:50 AM CET at the Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival the session and panel titled, Epistemologies of the North. Why do we need to work across different ways of knowing in the Arctic? , featuring a music and visual performance, will engage with the question:What does it take to bring notions of care and cognitive justice into policymaking?
On Thursday 13/06 at 17:30 CETResonances IV artist Jemma Woolmore will be giving a participatory performance at the Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival, organised by the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Participatory and Deliberative Democracy titled I/We/They: Rhythm and Ritual for public space.
On 13/06/2024 , in the framework of the public programme adjoint to the NaturArchy exhibition, a panel will be held on What is the role of arts and science in European forest resilience against wildfires? from 10:00 - 13:00 CET at the CDMA building in Brussels (21 Rue du Champ de Mars / Marsveldstraat 21, B-1050). This panel follows the collaboration of artist Margherita Pevere with FIRE-RES Europe for the work Lament, which will be exhibited at the NaturArchy exhibition starting from 12/06/2024.
As a beautiful and illustrative example of how art and science collaborations can positively impact policymaking, two of the artworks currently on show at the NaturArchy exhibition in Brussels - by JRC SciArt in partnership with iMAL - will be showcased at the EU Green Week 2024 in the Charlemagne building, Brussels.
On 14/06/2024 at 16:30-18:00 at the Fablab iMAL(Brussels), Gala Berger and indigenous artist Metsá Rama will lead a workshop to learn about the worldview of the Shipibo-Conibo people through the practice of Kené painting.
The Invisible Seeds artwork to which the workshop references, developed after two years of collaboration between Gala, the Shipibo-Conibo artists and agricultural policy and research input from Irene Guerrero Fernandez (JRC) will be unveiled this same week at iMAL as part of the NaturArchy exhibition.
On 12/06/2024 at 19:00 at iMAL (Brussels), Margherita Pevere and the Lament team will unveil the final artwork, starting with a performance by Margherita and musician Ivan Penov. The performance will be followed by a presentation of a participatory artwork developed by the artist together with inhabitants of Portuguese community of Santa Comba Dão who faced a megafire in 2017, during the artist's stay in Portugal for the artwork's production. The evening will conclude with an informal conversation between the audience, the artist and the community representatives.