Foundation LAccolade is developing two residencies: an urban residency in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris and a nomadic desert residency in Palm Springs, California.

Season 4 in Paris - Trembling with the Earth

Our residency program this year is titled Tremors of the Earth. It is not about studying earthquakes or seismic movements but rather about exploring the field of investigation revealed by the Gaia hypothesis proposed by chemist James Lovelock and biologist Lynn Margulis: the Earth is a sensitive superorganism that responds to human activity. We bear a moral and fundamental responsibility toward the Earth, which sustains and nourishes us. We interact with it as we do with the Other, trembling in its presence as it reacts to our actions. Featuring Ninon Hivert, Joke Raes, and Ry Rocklen.

Season 3 in Paris - Living Lights, Aesthetics of Bioluminescence

Living manifestations of light have always been a powerful motive of wonder for humanities. Living organisms able of creating light have been a source of fascination and inspiration since time immemorial. Whether on land or in the ocean abyss, these manifestations, which emerge from the darkness, are the receptacles of an irreducible enigma. Most bioluminescent beings, such as fireflies, dinoflagellates, crystal jellyfish and deep-sea brittle stars, produce light through the intercession of symbiotic photobacteria.

For this Season 3, the Fondation LAccolade welcome three artists, including Nadia Merad Coliac, Côme di Meglio, Teresa Van Dongen, who experiment with works, devices and protocols using living micro-organisms, who make living art or stage living art at work.

Season 2 in Paris - Entangled Life

There is no possible understanding of the living being except to conceive it as an entanglement, an intertwining, an entanglement. The notion of entanglement and intertwining is opposed to that of separation. To tie up with the living is to intertwine what has been left behind, to plead that the entanglement is the architecture of the living in all its extent and diversity, it is to accept the entanglement with the non-humans and all the elements of nature. The living is an entangled and intertwined continuity.

For this second season of residencies, in 2022, the Fondation LAccolade welcomed six artists, Luz Moreno Pinart, Elodie Antoine, and the FIBRA collective (Lucia Monge, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo).

Season 1 in Paris - Nothing is true, everything is alive

The first season of the artistic and research residencies at the Fondation LAccolade are devoted to the world of the living. The title of the season hijacks Edouard Glissant’s famous aphorism, “Nothing is True, Everything is Alive.” He expounded on this statement during a speech given at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris in 2010, by pitting the dynamics of the True as an absolute against the Living as an expression that knows no discontinuity. He also stated, during an interview, that, “the most basic level of this assertion is that we must move from ideology to pulsation, from systematic notion to intuition. Pulsation and intuition are the living. Ideology is the true, not in the sense of a particular truth, but of the absolute (and sectarian) Truth that has often been at the origin of the quest for knowledge (and power), particularly in the West. In “Nothing is True, Everything is Living”, the living represents the unexpected, the unforeseen, often the irrational – but also the ultra-rational, without any fixity…”

For this first season of residencies, in 2021, the Fondation LAccolade has welcomed three artists, Charlotte Gautier Van Tour, Caroline Le Méhauté, and Chloé Jeanne.