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Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t[vc_column_text]\n
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\nMarc Buchy
\nMarie Cantos
\nClelia Coussonnet
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I was invited to contribute a text to Marc Buchy\u2019s new piece in the framework of the program Mondes Nouveaux in 2023. My essay Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy <\/i>analysed organic temporalities, folklore and embedded knowledge, the impact of colonial circulation of plants, the political symbolism of plants, as well as the modern curse of running after time.<\/p>\n

The full article can be read online on the beautiful website designed for the installation. The online interface features contributions by the artist, myself and Marie Cantos and Gil Ferrand, a botanist who also documented every single plant (photographing it and sharing witty descriptions of them). The website also includes a map of the planted species.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ el_class=”text-center” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”]\t

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Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t[vc_column_text]\n
Published online<\/span>
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Contributors
\nMarc Buchy
\nMarie Cantos
\nClelia Coussonnet
\nGil Ferrand<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

I was invited to contribute a text to Marc Buchy\u2019s new piece in the framework of the program Mondes Nouveaux in 2023. My essay Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy <\/i>analysed organic temporalities, folklore and embedded knowledge, the impact of colonial circulation of plants, the political symbolism of plants, as well as the modern curse of running after time.<\/p>\n

The full article can be read online on the beautiful website designed for the installation. The online interface features contributions by the artist, myself and Marie Cantos and Gil Ferrand, a botanist who also documented every single plant (photographing it and sharing witty descriptions of them). The website also includes a map of the planted species.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578631584625{padding-top: 4vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”]\t

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\u2018The cyclical alternations at work in ecosystems punctuated the passage of time, subtly linking bodies to their living spaces and to non-human living entities. Folklore, with its rituals, songs and other creative forms, combined human well-being with literal or imagined interaction with plants, the basis of a way of forming community.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”]\t

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\u2018The cyclical alternations at work in ecosystems punctuated the passage of time, subtly linking bodies to their living spaces and to non-human living entities. Folklore, with its rituals, songs and other creative forms, combined human well-being with literal or imagined interaction with plants, the basis of a way of forming community.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1733474691310{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}” offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”]\t

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Marc Buchy’s plant work reinterprets the research of Carl von Linn\u00e9 and his idea of chronobiology. In 1751, the Swedish naturalist drew up a list of flowers that open and close at particular times. Linn\u00e9 suggested that it would be possible to tell the time based on the movement of their corollas. Planted from east to west, the installation invites us to wander around and observe these small changes. By placing his work in the heart of Besan\u00e7on, the artist wanted to be part of the city’s flow, but also to engage with its working-class and political history.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]\t

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Open to the landscape, the work overlooks the city, with the steeple of Saint-Jean cathedral, home to an astronomical clock, the starting point for Buchy’s reflection, standing out. In the background, the horizon of the Jura massif sets the work in the landscape and its extra-human time. This temporal dimension clashes with that of the flowers, but also with that of the smartphones consulted by visitors seeking information on the dedicated website. Finally, elusive bees, whose hive has been set up nearby, criss-cross the grounds in their own way. Comment j’ai appris \u00e0 ne plus m’en faire et \u00e0 aimer la r\u00e9volution<\/i> is a vastly constructed situation that sees the present as a superimposition of different layers of perception and understanding.\u2019<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]\t

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Design by Marie L\u00e9crivain, with ASBL Luuse (Antoine Gelgon, Lara Dautun, Natalia Pageau); Immortel Infra (205TF) & Post Gill Sans (\u00c9sad\u2022Valence), typography
\nSummer-Autumn 2023, French
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\n\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_text]About Marc Buchy’s piece <\/strong><\/span>\u2018Comment j’ai appris \u00e0 ne plus m’en faire et \u00e0 aimer la r\u00e9volution<\/i> (How I learned not to worry and to love the revolution)<\/p>\n

Marc Buchy’s plant work reinterprets the research of Carl von Linn\u00e9 and his idea of chronobiology. In 1751, the Swedish naturalist drew up a list of flowers that open and close at particular times. Linn\u00e9 suggested that it would be possible to tell the time based on the movement of their corollas. Planted from east to west, the installation invites us to wander around and observe these small changes. By placing his work in the heart of Besan\u00e7on, the artist wanted to be part of the city’s flow, but also to engage with its working-class and political history.<\/p>\n

Open to the landscape, the work overlooks the city, with the steeple of Saint-Jean cathedral, home to an astronomical clock, the starting point for Buchy’s reflection, standing out. In the background, the horizon of the Jura massif sets the work in the landscape and its extra-human time. This temporal dimension clashes with that of the flowers, but also with that of the smartphones consulted by visitors seeking information on the dedicated website. Finally, elusive bees, whose hive has been set up nearby, criss-cross the grounds in their own way. Comment j’ai appris \u00e0 ne plus m’en faire et \u00e0 aimer la r\u00e9volution<\/i> is a vastly constructed situation that sees the present as a superimposition of different layers of perception and understanding.\u2019<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]\n

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Design by Marie L\u00e9crivain, with ASBL Luuse (Antoine Gelgon, Lara Dautun, Natalia Pageau); Immortel Infra (205TF) & Post Gill Sans (\u00c9sad\u2022Valence), typography
\nSummer-Autumn 2023, French
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\u2018The title of Buchy\u2019s work might suggest the political use of floral symbolism. From national emblems (cedar of Lebanon, Irish shamrock, Canadian maple) or partisan ones (royalist lily, socialist rose, ecologist sunflower), to revolutions with flowery names (roses in Georgia, tulips in Kyrgyzstan or carnations in Portugal) and the commemorative use of flowers (the red rosehip of May Day, although the less politicised lily of the valley has replaced it, or the poppy of the First World War), the examples are numerous. This is all the more interesting in the context of Besan\u00e7on, whose history of labour struggle culminated in the strikes at the Lip watch factory in the 1970s.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2014 Quotes by Clelia Coussonnet, Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy<\/em>, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1728051554069{padding-top: 4vh !important;}” el_class=”align-center”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_column_text]\n

\u2018The title of Buchy\u2019s work might suggest the political use of floral symbolism. From national emblems (cedar of Lebanon, Irish shamrock, Canadian maple) or partisan ones (royalist lily, socialist rose, ecologist sunflower), to revolutions with flowery names (roses in Georgia, tulips in Kyrgyzstan or carnations in Portugal) and the commemorative use of flowers (the red rosehip of May Day, although the less politicised lily of the valley has replaced it, or the poppy of the First World War), the examples are numerous. This is all the more interesting in the context of Besan\u00e7on, whose history of labour struggle culminated in the strikes at the Lip watch factory in the 1970s.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Quotes by Clelia Coussonnet, Les oscillations botaniques de Marc Buchy<\/em>, 2023<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1578631714468{padding-top: 12vh !important;padding-bottom: 8vh !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md”][vc_column_text]\n

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