‘‘Nouvelle Campagne’’

location:

Nègrepelisse, France

team:

Marta Jonville, Martha Burgoa-Martinez, Victoire Liagre

year:

2022

commissioner:

La Cuisine, Art and Design Center

The ‘‘nouvelle campagne’’ in which is situated the art center is a hybrid and complex territory inhabited by families from the traditional heritage of the region as well as neo-rural and recent inhabitants searching for an economic living to work in the nearby cities.

Such natureculture is a ‘‘post-natural’’ ecosystem composing a network of heteroclite objects that testify the obsolescence of binaries between rural and urban, natural and cultural, human and non-human, living and non-living. These cohabitations add-up to different levels of politics, from European to local legislations, that complexify the relationship that the center could maintain with its social and territorial environment.