Cottagecore (Paradise Haunts Growth) est une installation sonore à neuf canaux utilisant un réseau neuronal artificiel afin de générer une simulation de serre agricole. L'algorithme habitant la serre s'émancipe de ses objectifs productivistes pour repenser de nouvelles formes d'interactions entre les différents organismes de celle-ci. Progressivement les espèces parasites prolifèrent, de nouvelles relations symbiotiques émergent, et cet espace clos devient le laboratoire de multiples fictions spéculatives se recomposant à travers ses membranes sonores.
Sun never sets in paradise. At dusk,
the ultraviolet radiation of growth
lights up the sky.
Unearthed roots sprawl towards the cloud,
like veins of a sterile ecology.
(A sandpit for emergent behavior).
A computer generated greenhouse
inhabited by a ghost.
The ASMR neural network whispers.
Leapfrogging communities emerge
as the host assimilates its parasite.
(Life is a motion of juices spilling over).
Sporadic mumbles proliferated,
blooming within its soft shell.
All but unnoticed.
As the everlasting sun permeates,
ablaze with life, even the world will,
in its very turn,
burn.
Marcel Mrejen (France/Algeria), born in 1994 at Paris, is an artist who questions the articulation of technology with living and economic metabolisms. His work explores the integration of non-human models in technological domains, from epiphytic roots to organisms used to model algorithms. These different concerns are formulated in installations, sculptures, software, films and publications. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he has exhibited and curated exhibitions in various cultural institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum, Laurel Project Space, REFRESH and FOAM. In collaboration with Eliott Déchamboux, his book L'Europe c'est Deutshland quand tu miss laba tu est foutue mon frère, le reste c'est du fouma-fouma, was published by Jungle Books in 2019.
Cursus
2012-2013 — Mise à niveau en art appliqué, Lycée Eugénie Cotton, Montreuil 2013-2015 — BTS Design Graphique, ÉSAA Duperré, Paris 2015-2018 — Bachelor Art & Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2018-2021 — Professional practice
Sound engineering: M’hand Abadou Djezairi Voice: Renée Christiane
Production : Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains
