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Sunday, April 4, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Auditorium (building 20)
Limited registration
Artist-in-labs at the Red Sea Research Center: Julian Charrière
Register now to discover more about the third season of the artist-in-labs residency exchange with Julian Charrière. In his lecture, the multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin will present his residency exchange at KAUST and some selected works and insights into their development.
Both the artist’s working method and his personal and professional experiences referring to his artistic practice will play a role and the content-related focal points that currently interest him the most and shape the development of his current work complexes. Charrière will illustrate his working processes, his approach to scientific perspectives, and the development of artistic research in his practice through a specific selection of his previous works. The presentation will as well be an opportunity to reflect on and summarize his work and discoveries during his stay at KAUST-residency.
Julian Charrière
Julian Charrière is a Swiss-French artist based in Berlin, Germany, whose work bridges the realms of environmental science and cultural history. Marshaling performance, sculpture, and photography, his projects often stem from fieldwork in remote locations with acute geophysical identities such as volcanoes, ice-fields, and radioactive sites.
To date, his oeuvre has explored post-romantic constructions of “nature,” staging tensions between deep or geological timescales and those relating to humankind. Charrière’s approach further reflects upon the mythos of the quest and its objects in a globalized age. Deploying seemingly perennial imagery to contemporary ends, his interventions at the borderline of mysticism and the material encapsulate our fraught relations with a place today.
About the artists-in-labs program
In 2016, KAUST started a partnership through the Enrichment Office with the artists-in-labs program. The partnership brings a collaboration between scientists and artists in the KSA and Switzerland to enhance the dialogue between the disciplines and cultures. The artists-in-labs program of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) brings artists and scientists together in an experimental framework to develop transdisciplinary projects and bring inspiring ideas into the public realm.
Learn more about the artists-in-labs program and its previous artist-in-residence collaborations.
