Time No Longer
The Time No Longer research program, which follows on from the Gender 2030 research program, began a new cycle in spring 2023 with a study trip to a series of remarkable gardens, seen as a range of possible responses to the challenges faced by contemporary art as it ventures in a new field, exploring new ways of coexisting with other beings, seeking other approaches, other modalities for art to take place, at the crossroads of the environmental, the social, and the societal, toward new attitudes involving new forms.
In spring 2024, a workshop led by two artists at the Jardin des Paradis (Cordes-Sur-Ciel) saw experimental performances in situ renew individual and collective practices and spark the creation of a temporary residency. In spring 2025, a return to the Jardin exotique Delaselle (île de Batz, Northern Brittany), 75% of which was destroyed by Storm Ciaran, gave rise to a multiplicity of documentary approaches. In 2025-2026, based on this collectively gathered material, the research group hopes to make a film with the help of Abdessamad El Montassir and the support of partners. At the same time, it wishes to further its reflection, discuss its research, and share it publicly through a study and research day open to all three options. Entitled Garden, Trauma, Place of Contemporary Practices, it will be based in particular on the status of the film. This day will take place on February 19, 2026, and will be the first in a series of three study days bringing together the art, design, and graphic design options.
Objectives
- Through the concrete exploration of new places, the search for new relationships between living beings and new forms of exhibition, to initiate a collective research project which, in the field of contemporary art, gives recognition to forms inspired by recent contributions from the sciences and humanities and current debates around issues of diversity, the environment, trauma, and care.
- Bring together graduate students, graduates, young emerging artists, teachers (an artist and a theorist), and a research supervisor in a joint research effort aimed at achieving certain postgraduate objectives.
- Prepare, promote, and consolidate both alternative professionalization and a culture of solidarity based on respect for equal rights.
- Produce and mobilize highly specialized knowledge.
- Contribute to bringing research into a professional context.
- Engage in, promote, and enhance creative practice.
- Use basic research tools and methods to advance artistic practices.
- Transmit knowledge and expertise to a diverse audience in contexts of mediation or teaching artistic creation.
Referent professors
Hervé Sénant and Valérie du Chéné
Time No Longer research receives support from the Ministry of Culture; it has been part of the Peinture network since 2012.
