WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
NOUS AVONS TOUS 7 MILLIONS D’ANNÉES

Research - Creation linking Prehistory to Contemporary. A study about Art creation, Archeology and Neurosciences.
A questioning about drawing, memory and mental image to consider the future of creation. A research conducted by Caroline Bouissou, artist and teacher in Fine Arts.
Project supported by Villa Arson, Art center, Nice, France.

weekly lessons for adults
2014 - 2016
Art Center, la Chapelle St Jacques, St Gaudens, France

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
The origines of drawing - memory/perception
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

2014 - 2015 weekly lessons dealing with theory and practice, Art and science in a research based on drawing, its construction, its origines. Duration 1h30h/ approx. 5 pers. ©caroline bouissou

formations (Education Artistique et Culturelle, state program)
with Espe (teacher school)and Villa Arson, Art Center
for teachers
Nice, France

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
7 million years look at us - memory
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

Formations EAC dealing with theory and practice, focusing on the cultural heritage we all share. A dynamic and plural workshop. Duration 4h/ approx. 25 pers.
Exhibition, galerie 22, Nice (“Mémoire vivante”) ©caroline bouissou

ateliers for kids
Villa Arson, Art Center
Nice, France

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
I can't believe it ! - perception
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

Children worshops based on experimentation and object construction to change one's perception.
Duration 2h/ approx. 10 pers. ©caroline bouissou

workshops - EN
students
Art school - Myndlisthaskoli
Reykjavik, Iceland

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
I don’t remenber well - memory
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

Workshop in english with Fine Arts students dealing with memory and its different aspects. Immersion, theory and practice. Duration 30h/ approx. 18 pers.
Exhibition in the Culture House of Reykjavik.
With the support of : Myndlisthaskoli, Vesturreitir, Culture House, Natural history Museum. ©caroline bouissou

atelier - EN
Elderly people - Fine Arts students
Vesturreitir, House care
Reykjavik, Iceland

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
living memory - memory
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

Workshop bringing together the elderly people of Vesturreitir and the Fine Arts students. Exchange, memory and drawing. Duration 4h/ approx. 25 pers. ©caroline bouissou

arts/sciences - publications

“Time Opéra, sourds comme des pots” - FR
in colaboration with Lucie Bertrand Luthereau, researcher Science Po,
Aix en Provence
Actes du colloque l’Ere du temps, University Côte d’Azur
(coming soon)

Caroline Bouissou is part of the research group AOEE, University Côte d’Azur

“Paysages déraisonnés” - FR
in collaboration with Michel Petitjean, researcher CNRS, INSERM Paris
for the exhibition point d’appui/ snertiflötur , Alliance Française de Reykjavik, Iceland
https://www.af.is/point-dappui-snertiflotur-5-til-13-september-2018/

“Asymetric exchanges” - EN
in collaboration with Michel Petitjean, researcher CNRS, INSERM Paris
Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Science
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01782438

“De quoi l’asymétrie est elle le nom” - FR
co-conference with Frédéric Patras, researcher CNRS,
laboratoire Dieudonné, University Côte d’Azur
AOEE asymmetry’s kik off

First Asymmetry symposium

“L’ asymétrie est à l’origine de la vie ?” - FR
Le Monde - David Larousserie (2018)
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2018/04/16/l-asymetrie-est-a-l-origine-de-la-vie_5286171_1650684.html

“Asymmetry symposium unites economists, physicists and artists” - EN
Nature 555, 414 (2018)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03254-w

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS
theoric research - art creation and pedagogic transmission

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Average duration:
- Atelier: 1h/ 1h30
- Workshop: 20h/ 25h one week
- weekly lessons: 1h/ 1h30

Languages : FR / EN



©caroline bouissou
WHAT ?
Memory, drawing, composition, perception.
theory and pratice inside of a pluridisciplinary appraoch with art creation, art history, neurosciences and archaeology.

FOR WHO ?
The interventions in english or french.
They can be ordered by Alliance Française, Universities, any enterprise, by Art Centers, Museums or Art Academies

Research - memory and mental image

Cognitive archaeology and future of the creation. What do we remember ? What makes the memory and how it does it builds itself ? What it is the part of culture, neurobiology?WE HAVE ANY 7 MILLION YEARS is an interdisciplinary project based on a sensitive and creative approach. Its postulate is that we have any 7 millions years of evolution, of repeated movements, of questionings, of cultures.
It involves various disciplines: Arts, Sciences and Pedagogy to approach at the same time the practice and the theory wondering about the origins of the creation from prehistory to contemporary. The project approaches the creation at the same time under a theoretical and a practical aspect, mixing arts and sciences and making bridges between prehistory and contemporary.
This search is rested by numerous museums and university partners worried of taking advantage of their human and documentary resources, their patrimonial resources and of places of exhibition in a spirit of collaboration.
UCA (University Côte d’Azur) with Global Asymmetry – Origin, Evolution, and Expression (AOEE), Échanges Asymétriques (EA), College of the teaching profession and education ( ESPE), La Villa Arson, Art center, The Museum of prehistory Terra Amata...
for more informations :

Creation

Part of the Art pieces from the “We all have 7 million years” project result from the pedagogic actions, the other ones result from collaborations with scientists.

“A memory builds up itself gradually each time sensations impregnate us or just prevail in a given space. But memory is undulatory, elusive and can’t fit into any frame. It challenges time and space eroding linearity and circumferences, manhandling any idea of shape even if does not stop stammering images. Unfaithful of nature or, to quote the title of Jules Supervielle’s poem, “Forgetful memory” , memory is in all the fables, it creates myths. Difficult for an artist to seize the idea of memory except reducing it to an exploration of past. Caroline Bouissou plays on quite a different register. The memory is a process of knowledge and recognition which deforms at the same time as it proposes the hypothesis of a new figuration.”
Michel Gathier, art critic, (2017) Plein soleil

©caroline bouissou

"Time Opera"

article of the Lucie Bertrand Luthereau,CNRS
©caroline bouissou

"L'origine du monde"

Link to the project
©caroline bouissou

"Mirage"

Link to the project
©caroline bouissou

Research team

WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS is built from Arts/Sciences collaborations within different structures, from research and transdisciplinary exchanges, creation and pedagogical transmission on the subjects of “memory” and "mental image”.

Caroline Bouissou, artist and teacher in Fine Arts
She is the initiator and coordinator of this arts/sciences project that she develops with the support of Villa Arson and the association “WE ALL HAVE 7 MILLION YEARS”.
She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and recently joined the AOEE multidisciplinary research group of UCA (University Côte d'Azur) affirming her resolutely transversal commitment linking arts and sciences.

Martine Adrian-Scotto, physicist and lecturer at ICN
She works in the field of research about olfaction. Studying multimodal perception, associating music and smells. The transdisciplinarity arts, sciences is his area of research.

Gabriel Gandolfo, Teacher-researcher in neurosciences at UCA
Doctor in Behavioral Sciences since 1999 he carries out his research in a multidisciplinary framework, especially between Arts and sciences of the brain. He is the author and co-author of several publications in this theme.

Bertrand Roussel, Docteur in Prehistory and Nice's Archeology Museums Director
He is particularly interested in the links between science and Arts and the crossroads of disciplines. He is the author and co-author of many books on this subject.

Biography

Correlations between Arts and Sciences are completely integrated into Caroline Bouissou's practice. Creation and theoretical search are here inseparable.Her work is multidisciplinary, it questions memory, the birth of images and transmission. It's is under tightened by a practice of performance which expresses itself by a concern of experiment and the search for situations of experiment.
She studied at Villa Arson, Nice, France and at Listhaskoli, Reykjavik, Iceland, she obtained a diploma for art teaching in Brussels, Belgium that completed her creative approach with an educational culture.
Caroline Bouissou worked on educational projects of search in association with various Art Centers ( Villa Arson, Espace de l'Art Concret, Chapelle St Jacques ...) She participated in numerous exhibitions in France, Japan , Canada in United States and Europe. After years abroad she decided to come back to Nice where she integrated the group of search AOEE for the UCA (Côte d'Azur University) asserting her resolutely multidisciplinary commitment.
©caroline bouissou

Ongoing Projects

Démarche, des marches
FRAC PACA, PNR Alpes d’Azur
Collaboration with Patrice Tordjman, Géologue

The smell of apparition
UCA's JEDI application filled
Art/Science investigation project in collaboration with ICN

AOEE, UCA group meetings

Mémoire, image mentale

Without being conscious of it, memory accompanies each of our gestures.
To ask itself the question of the mechanisms of memory allows to have a more vast vision of the creation and its division.
As underlines it the neuropsychologist F. Eustache the memory is turned to the future this is what allows us to cross 7 million years remaining focused to the contemporary.

How the technical evolutions propel us towards radical transformations of the world? What continuity in the creation, which upheavals? How our perceptive body evolves? What are our capacities to dread the new dimensions offered by the contemporary creation (digital, virtual, collective)? What do we remember ? How to approach the complexity of our memories - individual, collective and shared through the creation? How do we remember? What makes the memory and how does it builds itself ? What it is the part of culture, neurobiology or neuropsychologie?

L’ODEUR DE L’APPARITION

Multimodal experiences and olfactory installations about mental images and memory a collaboration with the Institute of Chemistry of Nice and the researcher, Martine Adrian Scotto.

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