In the heart of the Jardin des Méditerranées, the Domaine du Rayol is launching a research and transmission residency program at the crossroads of art and natural sciences, listening to the forms of life that surround us without always expecting us. The Entre-Autres residency invites a duo composed of an artist and a researcher to explore, through observation, experimentation, and transmission, the invisible languages of non-human life.

Through this residency, the aim is no longer to represent, explain or illustrate living beings, but to engage in an attempt to relate to what lives differently: plants, animals, fungi, algae, insects, soil, roots, seeds... All these beings already communicate with each other through signals, vibrations, smells, colors, or silence, and we have forgotten or neglected their languages.

Over six weeks spread throughout the year, the residents will conduct research and share their findings. They will forge links between disciplines, generations, and worlds:

• the Mediterranean environments of the Domaine, their diversity, their rhythms, their interconnections;
• the “sustainable development” class of the Lycée du Golfe de Saint-Tropez, engaged in a sensitive and critical process of discovery;
• visitors and residents of the area, invited to meetings, workshops, or shared presentations.

Entre-Autres is an interdisciplinary residency, but also an inter-kingdom residency. It breaks down barriers between knowledge to open up a space for perception, curiosity, and perhaps reciprocity between species. It is an invitation to slow down, to be amazed, to learn with rather than explain about.

For by learning to communicate differently with non-human life, we may discover new ways of living together—among humans, too.

This residency is made possible thanks to the support of the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the patronage of Laurent and Sylvie Dupuy.

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