The Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Knowledge (FRIEK) was a transdisciplinary platform for arts-based exhibits, actions, and methodologies, co-curated by City as Nature, along with curators from Paris.
FRIEK consisted of an international corps of artists, dancers, poets, and other arts-based practitioners, who produced exhibits, reflections, workshops, and happenings that challengeed the framework of established knowledge in an academic conference.
Taking place within The Nature of Cities Summit at The Sorbonne University, there is a sense that FRIEK plays the role disrupting, while also seeking to open new channels of awareness, collaboration, and connection between disciplines, and between ourselves and our environment.
Attentive to the urban landscape, and partnering with human and non-human companions, FRIEK works across and through disciplines, helping us imagine new ways to weave our own work and ideas into a broader transdisciplinary fabric.
Our Role
City as Nature were co-curators, collaborating with Carmen Bouyer and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro to produce all creative programming, interactive exhibition planning, and to handle the design-build of exhibition architecture.
Project Team
Producers / Curators: Carmen Bouyer (France), Patrick M. Lydon (United States), Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro (France)
Participating Artists: 3’z (France), Emilio Fantin (Italy), Nadia Vadori Gauthier (France), Soraya Hamlaoui (France), Matthew Jensen (United States), Frida Larios (El Salvador), Robin Lasser (United States), Mary Miss (United States), Marguerite Perret (United States), Kevin Reese (United States), Bruce Scherting (United States)
With Support From: The Nature of Cities (United States), Musagetes Foundation (Canada)
Exhibition
Dates: June 4-7, 2019
Location: Sorbonne University (Jussieu Campus), Paris, France
Website: friek.cityasnature.org
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