Javiera Tejerina-Risso, a French-Chilean artist based in Marseille, France, has a practice-based PhD from Aix-Marseille University. She participated in Bruno Latour’s Arts+Politics SPEAP Sciences Po, Paris, and has held residencies at the Ateliers de la ville de Marseille, Espace 36, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, La Cupula Mérida and IRPHE & IMER Laboratories. She is regularly invited to deliver workshops at art academies including Ecole d’art supérieure d’Aix-en-Provence, Ecole supérieure d’Art et de design de Toulon, Instituto de Arte PUCV à Viña del Mar Chile, and UNAY Mérida Mexico. In France, her work has been shown at Les Tanneries Art Center, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Variation Media Art Fair, Objectif Vidéo Nice (OVNI), the 68th edition of Jeune Création, Dos Mares in Marseille and at international festivals such as VidéoFormes, Time is Love Screenings, and Proyector 15, and Art-Sci UCLA. She recently showed her work at the Bienal Tlatelolca in CDMX. Tejerina-Risso’s work unfolds in the exhibition space primarily in the form of installations and videos and engages deeply with the scientific imagination, notably relying on the vocabulary and research in physics.
Join us for The Space Between Us, an artist talk by Ars Scientia artist-in-residence Javiera Tejerina-Risso. Hosted by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Tejerina-Risso will discuss her collaborative partnerships with scientists and engineers while embedded at Blusson QMI.
Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
Ars Scientia seeks to foster knowledge exchange across the arts, sciences and pedagogies by pairing artists and scientists in residencies to explore the potential for academic art-science collaborations. Funded by UBC’s Research Excellence Cluster program, artists will provide new ways of imagining research and knowledge exchange as a dimensional counterpart to the research carried out at Blusson QMI. Through the development of conversation programs and panel series in tandem with the creation of an ongoing artist residency, the Cluster addresses questions of pedagogical outcomes, interdisciplinary research, and the emergent interstices of art and science.
Javiera Tejerina-Risso’s artist residency is a partnership between UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery through Quantum Studio, which is part of a larger program of residencies sponsored by the Embassy of France in Western Canada.
Javiera Tejerina-Risso, a French-Chilean artist based in Marseille, France, has a practice-based PhD from Aix-Marseille University. She participated in Bruno Latour’s Arts+Politics SPEAP Sciences Po, Paris, and has held residencies at the Ateliers de la ville de Marseille, Espace 36, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, La Cupula Mérida and IRPHE & IMER Laboratories. She is regularly invited to deliver workshops at art academies including Ecole d’art supérieure d’Aix-en-Provence, Ecole supérieure d’Art et de design de Toulon, Instituto de Arte PUCV à Viña del Mar Chile, and UNAY Mérida Mexico. In France, her work has been shown at Les Tanneries Art Center, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Variation Media Art Fair, Objectif Vidéo Nice (OVNI), the 68th edition of Jeune Création, Dos Mares in Marseille and at international festivals such as VidéoFormes, Time is Love Screenings, and Proyector 15, and Art-Sci UCLA. She recently showed her work at the Bienal Tlatelolca in CDMX. Tejerina-Risso’s work unfolds in the exhibition space primarily in the form of installations and videos and engages deeply with the scientific imagination, notably relying on the vocabulary and research in physics.
The long search for dark matter has put the spotlight on the limitations of human knowledge and technological capability. Confronted with the shortcomings of our established modes of detecting, diagnosing and testing, the search beckons the creation of new ways of learning and knowing. Fusing the praxes of arts and science in the emergent fields of interdisciplinary research, Ars Scientia, a tripartite partnership between UBC's Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI), the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Belkin, presents an opportunity to foster new modes of knowledge exchange across the arts, sciences and their pedagogies. Funded by UBC’s Research Excellence Cluster program, Ars Scientia will conduct rich programming and research to address this line of inquiry over the next two years beginning in 2021.
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