Down to Earth: The Heart of the Matter
Art Center
from 2 Oct 2021 to 30 Jan 2022 - Centre d'art
guest curator : Julie Sicault Maillé
With Étienne de France, Anthony Duchêne, Camille Goujon, Le Nouveau Ministère de l’Agriculture (Suzanne Husky et Stéphanie Sagot), Koichi Kurita, Rachel Labastie, Martin Étienne and Sébastien Marot, Cynthia Montier, Laure Tixier, Anaïs Tondeur and Germain Meulemans + Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger (residency)
Caring for the earth is caring for humanity
– the permacultivators' motto
We are currently witnessing a palpable revival of attention to the soil. All around us flourishing new initiatives are making soil the heart of the matter, as, at long last, awareness is growing that we must take care of something that ensures our existence; this nourishing soil without which eating would be reduced to swallowing capsules. The artists gathered together in Aterrir [Down to Earth] purposefully observe, evoke, sketch, disseminate and implement this renewed attentiveness to soil and its cultivation.
And what better place than the Ferme du Buisson – a former farm in France's Briard region and a flagship of agricultural innovation in the time of the Menier family, the famous chocolate makers – to look into our present relationship with the land, its cultivation and our nutrition. Traditional and urban agriculture exist side by side in today's world; their scales are different, as are their aims and objectives – but can't each learn from the other?
Today new challenges are emerging: in addition to the need for sustainable food, they are a sign of the desire to appropriate urban space with renewed social bonds, to rediscover basic human relationships, to connect with nature's cycles and to nourish ourselves with products that awaken our taste buds; to reconnect city dwellers and everyone else with the soil, with nature and with what's on their plates.
Conviviality and social bonding, building communities to care for the soil, our common good, and caring for ourselves and others.
sat 2 oct
4 pm
exhibition opening
with the artists
sat 23 oct
Anthony Duchêne: Paysages à Boire [Drink Up the Landscape]
4:30 pm
guided tour of the exhibition
6 pm
talk & wine tasting
the living vineyard
with artist Anthony Duchêne and journalist/columnist Dominique Hutin
sat 20 nov
5 pm
book launch*
Digressions #11: Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger, followed by a slide show with the artists
sun 21 nov
3 pm
hike*
"Sendero el Puma"
4 km around the Mombacho volcano in Noisiel with the artists
*part of Baptiste Brévart and Guillaume Ettlinger's residency
wed 8 dec
film screening
Champ [Field] by Étienne de France, followed by a discussion with the artist, Philippe and François Camburet (farmers) and Marianne Lanavère (tree and shrub cultivator and former director of the International Centre for Art and Landscape – île de Vassivière)
at the Ferme du Buisson cinema
admission: 4.50 € – 7.50 €
sat 22 and sun 23 jan
activation of artworks by Cynthia Montier
discussions, planting, lunch with the artist – and more
advance booking essential for all events
numbers limited; health measures in force
infos pratiques
opening hours
Wednesday – Friday, 2 – 6 pm
Saturday - Sunday, 2 – 7:30 pm
free admission
advance booking essential for all events: +33 (0)1 64 62 77 77
numbers restricted; compliance with current health
guided tours and workshops
— for the family
parents & children workshops
every second Wednesday
and school holidays
4 pm
age 5+
5 € per child/book in advance
tours for tots
sun 24 oct
and 26 dec
4 pm
age 3–5
5 € per child/book in advance
— general public
guided tours
on request
free
group tours
advance booking required at rp@lafermedubuisson.com
free
how to get here
— by train
RER A towards Marne-La-Vallée, get off
at Noisiel (20 mins from Paris)
— by car
A4 towards Marne-la-Vallée
exit Noisiel-Torcy, take the Noisiel- Luzard road
infos
+33 (0)1 64 62 77 00
contact@lafermedubuisson.com
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