Jean-Philippe Basello / Simon Ripoll-Hurier
Lisa Randall’s research on particles has revealed the existence of hidden dimensions that quantum physics is capable of formulating whereas they are, for the moment, impossible for us to perceive. Randall, physicist and professor at Harvard University, (Warped passages. Unraveling the mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions, Harper Collins, 2005) imagines other dimensions beyond the three dimensions of space that we know, which are likely to transform our relationship to space-time.
This first sequence of the fifth season of Partitions (Performances) is organized around these dimensions, proposing an approach to two alternative forms of communication and their consequences on our perception of the world. In the context of the project Diana, Simon Ripoll-Hurier sought out ghost hunters in New Jersey and participated in their attempts to establish communication with the dead. Jean-Philippe Basello proposes, with the creation of a new grammatical future tense, to explore “the potential of a de-conditioned thinking about the body and the consequences of this autonomy on time’s relationship to thought.”
Simon Ripoll-Hurier / The Silent Keys
In the jargon of amateur radio, « A Silent Key » designates an operator who has died, and as a consequence, has ceased emitting (and activating the “key of morse code”). For those who have a passion for phenomena of “electronic voices,” on the other hand, the spirits of the dead never stop broadcasting signals, and one can use radios and wave detectors to enter into contact with them. Last summer, Simon Ripoll-Hurier filmed a group of ghost hunters in New Jersey, who have become masters in the art of making machines talk. The artist, on the other hand, will also propose an exercise of ventriloquism, accompanied by two accomplices (Myriam Lefkowitz & Nicolas Doutey). This performance is part of « Diana, » a long-term film project that deals with the question of communicating at a distance.
Simon Ripoll-Hurier was born in 1985. He lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the Beaux-arts school of Paris (class of 2008) he does work which exists at the intersection of music and the visual arts. It often explores collective images, like Broadway, clouds, dreams, or the moon. He is a co-founder of *DUUU, an on-line artistic radio station, and he was part of the teaching committee of the Program of experimentation in the arts and politics (SPEAP, Sciences po Paris). Since 2014, he has been developing the project Diana which is about the different aspects of radio transmissions.
Jean-Philippe Basello / RECHERCHES CpD
The principle of time/dimension equivalence – The dynamic of the dimensions – Future Extra-Progressive – space
After his ContreDesign agency, presented last year at the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Jean-Philippe Basello is back, proposing a new research prospective on the creation of a new grammatical tense: the future extra-progressive, and its possible consequences on the evolution of thought. Starting with the observation that 62 % of the words conjugated in the French language are in the past tense as opposed to 10% in the future, Basello will demonstrate the interest of a way of thinking that can be projected into the future.
Jean-Philippe Basello was born in 1988. He lives and works in Paris. Having studied at the école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, he was then artist in residency at the Chambre de Commerce et d’industrie in Paris. He is an artist as well as a businessman who has developed the Start-Up or rather the Start-Out. From the independent label « chant dans la tête, » La Tête d’Orphée, created in 2013, and its Academy, at which anyone and everyone can follow his courses or those of his disciples, the artist will never abandon the possibility of creating franchises with the ContreDesign company, King Kong in the City. Basello responds to the economic world through new forms of society.
