The Cooperative Laboratory for Artistic and Ecological Practices is an informal training framework for adults, artists, and art professionals designed to foster the acquisition of ecological knowledge applicable within the context of artistic practice workshops. These workshops are aimed at children and adults, with a particular focus on “priority” audiences.
LABECO is supported by the European Union and carried out by DDA CONTEMPORARY ART, based in Marseille, in collaboration with O Gabinete de Madame Thao, based in Lisbon.
objectives
Our aim is to enhance the skills of participants specializing in the fields of art and culture, by learning sustainable and inclusive best practices. The aim is to pass on knowledge through workshops designed for our “priority” audiences. The study of new materials and new fields of eco-responsible artistic expression connected to the urban, natural and digital environment will give us back the power to act.
implementation
LABECO promotes the exchange of best practices and learning through mobility, with trips scheduled to Lisbon from February 2 to 8, 2025, and to Marseille from May 11 to 17, 2025.
Artists from France and Portugal participating in the program will explore their respective fields of action and experimentation, and visit specialized initiatives. They will engage in workshops focused on materials and share ideas about methods for transmitting knowledge to their audiences.
A public meeting with experts will take place in Lisbon on February 7, emphasizing experimental practices and research involving natural and ecological materials. Another public meeting with experts will be held in Marseille on May 16, focusing on a more theoretical and scientific approach to biomaterials research and its sociological implications.
A publication will be produced to share the outcomes of these exchanges with as many people as possible.
results
We aim to achieve positive qualitative and quantitative impacts through LABECO, based on the high-quality content we propose concerning transmission and inclusive, ecological artistic practices.
By offering tools that can be reused and accessed by a broad audience, we will be able to widely disseminate the results obtained. This will enable us to move on to a larger scale.
collaboration with
D.D.A CONTEMPORARY ART, founded in 2012 in Marseille, is an inclusive artistic platform dedicated to supporting contemporary art and accompanying artists. It has been developing a social action axis since 2021. It focuses its actions and reflections around questions linked to the hijacking of technologies, ancestral technologies and their mutations. Since 2019, the links between art and nature, the consideration of the living, the different types of ecology, are the axes that inspire these programmatic choices.
