research assembly for expanded ecologies

Lucile Haute participe à la rencontre paris wetlands le 18 juillet.

Time & Place : July 18 (Saturday), 2:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Le Jardin des Traverses – inscription

From Paris’s reactivated Petite Ceinture, the event invites research-led artists, filmmakers and architects engaging with plural, expanded ecological frameworks to join paris wetlands: research assembly for expanded ecologies—a gathering unpacking creative methodologies through transnational and decolonial lenses. Drawing on the interconnected wetland ecologies that once structured Paris as a metaphor for fluidity and interconnectivity, this assembly is aimed at fostering a horizontal support network for ecology-focused researchers based in Paris.

Initiated by mia yu, this project is co-curated alongside deng qiwen and angela ka ki lee, and emerges from a partnership between le jardin des traverses and mil.lieux.

Sur la Petite Ceinture réactivée de Paris, cet événement invite des artistes, cinéastes et architectes engagé·es dans des démarches de recherche sur des approches écologiques plurielles et élargies à rejoindre paris wetlands: research assembly for expanded ecologies — un rassemblement qui explore des méthodologies créatives à travers des prismes transnationaux et décoloniaux. En s’appuyant sur les écologies de zones humides interconnectées qui structuraient autrefois Paris, envisagées comme métaphore de fluidité et d’interconnexion, cette assemblée vise à faire émerger un réseau horizontal de soutien pour les chercheur·euses en écologie basé·es à Paris.

Initié par mia yu, ce projet est co-curaté avec deng qiwen et angela ka ki lee, et naît d’un partenariat entre le jardin des traverses et mil.lieux.

paris wetlands: research assembly for expanded ecologies

programme

lunch picnic 12:30 pm – 2 pm

session 1 – the afterlives of planetary extraction

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

metamorphosis of salt, research and conversations on crystals  

lise thiollier – artist

extraction as method: cinema and the instability of memory

rati oneli – filmmaker

undoing the divide between geological and human bodies

anna ternon – artist-researcher, PhD holder in Research-Creation, SACRe Laboratory (ENS-PSL)

moderator:  angela ka ki lee – multidisciplinary architect and lecturer at École Spéciale d’Architecture, founder of HAAU architecture studio

session 2 – entangled worlding

3:45 pm – 5:25 pm

biomimético-imago (sensitive images)

caroline reveillaud – visual artist, teacher

creating in our milieu

lucile olympe haute – artist, researcher, teacher

com-post: speculative ecologies of dwelling

yue cheng – visual artist, researcher, lecturer at Sciences Po

moderator: charline lalanne – architect and regenerative designer, founder of Office for Planetary Relationships

session 3 – mapping otherwise (fr/en)

5:40 pm – 7:10 pm

tracing opium: counter-cartography and alternative knowledge practices across colonial infrastructures

haonan he – artist, researcher

tacking through coloniality : a kalin’a tɨlewuyu’s perspective

keywa henri – multidisciplinary artist, independent researcher

soft ground

sara ibrahim – founder architect at SUSA, and head of research at Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture

a methodology for situated ecologies

khristian ceballos ugarte – architect and lecturer at École Spéciale d’Architecture, media director of Dislocal

moderator: deng qiwen – curator, coordinator at KADIST, co-founder of mil.lieux

dinner 7:10 pm – 8:30 pm

session 4 –  cosmic imaginaries through moving images

8:30 pm  – 10:30 pm

film screenings & talks

eme cosmos, 23 min, 4k video, 2024

mia yu – artist, curator, art historian

shokouk: a cosmicomedy in four acts, 17 min, digital, 2023

felix kalmenson – artist, filmmaker (as part of Pejvak)

afternoon hearsay, 19 min, super 8, 16mm and 35mm transferred into digital, 2025

peng zuqiang – artist, filmmaker

moderator: mia yu – artist, curator, art historian

mil.lieux is a non-profit organization that treats dialogue as a curatorial method through sustained conversations, writing, and Q&A to invite artists, curators, and cultural practitioners to collectively shape experimental exhibitions and public projects, exploring relationality and responsiveness beyond one-way presentation.

Drawing from East and Southeast Asian knowledge systems and cultural lineages constituted through transnational contexts, it begins from the perspective of dislocated subjects, always entangled in cultural, linguistic, and historical experiences. Through these processes, mil.lieux fosters polyphonic voices, alternative narratives, and the exchange and production of situated knowledge.

mil.lieux est une plateforme curatoriale à but non lucratif qui envisage le dialogue comme méthode — à travers des conversations au long cours, l’écriture et des dispositifs de questions-réponses — afin d’inviter artistes, curateur·ices et acteur·ices culturel·les à façonner collectivement des expositions expérimentales et des projets publics, explorant la relationnalité et la réactivité au-delà d’une monstration univoque.

S’appuyant sur les systèmes de savoir et les filiations culturelles est- et sud-est-asiatiques constitués à travers des contextes transnationaux, mil.lieux part de la perspective de sujets disloqués, toujours pris dans des expériences culturelles, linguistiques et historiques enchevêtrées. À travers ces processus, mil.lieux favorise des voix polyphoniques, des récits alternatifs, ainsi que l’échange et la production de savoirs situés.