Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, @ongoing_pieces, 2017. Installation view at Dienstgebäude, June 2017
@ongoing_pieces
2017. Installation, neon.
We are living in a time of drastic technological developments whose impact on our very conception of what makes us human needs to be reflected. Social medias are profondly affecting communications, social relationships, and the very understanding of community. Digitalization leads to new ways of remembering, of orienting yourself in the world, and to new forms of knowledge acquisition and transmission. Artificial intelligence forces us to reconsider what it means to think, to have emotions, to reason and take decisions. Not to mention biotechnologies and medical advancements which touch on our core biological functions.
In the face of this all-embracing evolution, we need to think anew what makes our own specificity as human beings, as well as the kind of humanity we want to promote and put into action. New forms of living are emerging, and if we want to go on, we cannot give up the hope that we are in a position where it is still possible to influence the shaping of these new forms of life by positioning ourselves as conscious and responsible actors in the world we inhabit, as well as in the way we interact with each other.
Bio
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz (born in 1979 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, lives in Zurich, Switzerland) explores alternative ways of making sense and the poetic potentials of language(s) in her lectures, installations, and (online) publications.
She completed a Master Degree in Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2012 after having obtained a PhD in Philosophy in Paris in 2006.
Her work has been shown at various venues including Centre Pompidou, Paris; La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich; Corner College, Zürich; Milieu, Bern; Fondazione Ratti, Como. A Cahier d’Artiste „Delphine Chapuis Schmitz“ was published in 2015 by ProHelvetia/Edizioni Periferia, with a text by Chus Martinez. She obtained a Swiss Art Award in 2017, grants from the Kanton of Zurich (2013), and from City of Zurich (2015, 2017). In 2016 she was in residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.