Loops of the loom
Cécile Babiole
Exhibition, installation, visual arts, digital art, sound art
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Oct. 11, 2024 to Jan. 19, 2025
Opening Oct. 11, 2024 at 6 pm
Oct. 12 to 14
10 am > 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm > 6 pm
From Oct. 15
10am > 12:30pm and 1:30pm > 5pm
Open daily except Tues.
Musée des Tapisseries
Aix-en-Provence
Loops of the loom is an exhibition by Cécile Babiole presenting a new body of work developed during a residency at LABgamerz. Through both anthropological and technological research into weaving, the artist proposes a contemporary reflection and experience around the practices that underpin the historic tapestry collection in the former Archbishop’s Palace. Drawing inspiration from the weavings of prehistoric matriarchal societies and the magnetic RAMs of early computers, Babiole weaves electrical wires capable of transmitting audio signals and translating patterns into sound scores; with the aid of a GPS, she weaves a soccer pitch that she runs up and down; she also weaves a radio antenna to broadcast the exhibition’s audio guide… A techno-feminist approach to this knowledge and know-how, often invisible and relegated to the status of decoration.
Artists
Cécile Babiole
Cécile Babiole has been active in the field of music and electronic and digital arts since the 80s. Her creations combine visual and sound arts in installations and performances that question technologies with irony and singularity. Her latest work focuses on language, its transmission, dysfunctions, reading, translation and algorithmic manipulation. In 2016, she co-founded the Roberte la Rousse collective, a cyberfeminist group working on language, gender and technology. She is a member of the artist-curator collective “Le sans titre”.
She is also an exhibition curator. Her latest exhibition: Hadaly et Sowana, cyborgs et sorcières at L’Espace Gantner, Bourogne (2019-2020). Her work has been exhibited internationally: Centre Pompidou, Gaîté Lyrique – Paris, IMAL – Brussels, Mutek, Elektra – Montreal, Fact – Liverpool, MAL – Lima, NAMOC – Beijing, … and awarded numerous prizes and grants: Ars Electronica, Locarno, Prix SCAM, Bourse Pierre Schaeffer, Bourse Villa Médicis hors les murs, Transmediale Berlin, Stuttgart Expanded Media Festival…
Credits & mentions
A program imagined and produced by LABgamerz.
As part of the Biennale d’Aix and the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques.
With the support of Espace Multimédia Gantner.
In partnership with the Musée des Tapisseries, Anonymal and Radio Zinzine.