How to tune a pile of earth?
Installation designed with Gaëtan Robillard
Le Cri du sol is a second version of Monsieur Tas, created as part of the Horizons Arts Nature event in the Puy de Sancy.
The project is inspired by Claude Bourguignon's theories and the observation that a long period of intensive agriculture has depleted the richness of the soil. In addition to challenging Claude Bourguignon's view of the earth as an inanimate medium requiring the use of fertilizers, he points out that far from being inert, soil contains 80% of the earth's biomass. His recommendations for the use of ramial fragmented wood and his observations of the micro-organic processes involved in decomposition set in motion a relationship with the soil that was a driving force in the creation of this installation. Our gesture, that of lending the archaic form of the heap an energetic and expressive device on the INRA site, situates a relationship of otherness with the soil. Whose energy potential is being revealed? So the encounter we wish to have today is that of a coincidence with an unknown that we are treading on, that of the micro-organic energy buried in the soil. It's the experience of entering into conversation (and therefore into knowledge) with an animated, extra-ordinary world and ecosystem that we're proposing here.
Dimensions: 13.5x13.5x3.5 m
Materials: earth, branches, oak, zinc, copper, glass, loudspeaker.
With thanks to: Marie-Sarah Adenis.
Commissionner: Horizons Arts Nature en Sancy