Contagious Matters<\/em> associates biological matter, specifically cancer cells, with the concept of contagion, via using Tristan\u2019s working methodology : microethnography. This method-in-development, in its relational co-existence with ethnography, navigates or explores the micro world by examining micro matters’ social activities. The re-suspension of the concept of contagion through both the sciences and the social sciences via this hybrid methodology will hopefully bring to light new methods of evaluating micro matter- apart from the human experience alone. The installation merges technology, science, art and culture through the use of traditional artistic media\/practice and scientific media\/practice. The visual use of the developing methodology attempts to capture the concept of contagion via cancer’s movement and rapid growth within its ecology, allowing viewers to think about the concept of contagion as a social event and not merely as a physiological one. Viewers of this multi-media installation will examine cancer culture via three elements ; an audio narrative by the artist’s mother who had co-existed with cancer, a static painted \u00ab\u00a0portrait\u00a0\u00bb of cancer, and a video projected onto the painting reflecting upon material discourse. This fusion of the seen and unseen, between the micro and the macro worlds, reverses itself in this creative exploration, where the voice is a mere aural presence versus that of the seen micro matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Le volet Contagious Matters <\/em>dresse un parall\u00e8le entre la substance biologique \u2013 des cellules canc\u00e9reuses en l\u2019occurrence \u2013 et le concept de la contagion. Le rapprochement s\u2019op\u00e8re par microethnographie, m\u00e9thodologie de travail que privil\u00e9gie Tristan Matheson. En cours de d\u00e9veloppement, cette d\u00e9marche porte sur l\u2019examen de l\u2019activit\u00e9 sociale des microsubstances. \u00c9tay\u00e9e par sa coexistence relationnelle avec l\u2019ethnographie, elle permet en quelque sorte de parcourir et de prospecter le monde microscopique. Aussi bien dans le domaine scientifique qu\u2019en sciences sociales, cette m\u00e9thodologie hybride transpose derechef le concept de la contagion. Avec un rien de chance, elle pourrait m\u00eame mettre au jour de nouveaux proc\u00e9d\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9valuation des microsubstances \u2013 au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience humaine en tant que telle. Empruntant \u00e0 des pratiques et m\u00e9diums traditionnels de dimension artistique comme scientifique, l\u2019installation amalgame technologie, science, art et culture. Interpr\u00e9tation visuelle d\u2019une m\u00e9thodologie en plein essor, elle tente de saisir le concept de la contagion. Pour cela, elle suit l\u2019itin\u00e9raire d\u2019un cancer et sa croissance rapide au sein de son \u00e9cologie propre. Ainsi, le spectateur de cette \u0153uvre multim\u00e9dia est \u00e0 m\u00eame de consid\u00e9rer la contagion comme une activit\u00e9 sociale et d\u2019y percevoir davantage qu\u2019un simple ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne physiologique. En outre, il peut aborder la culture li\u00e9e au cancer sous trois angles : le r\u00e9cit audio que livre la m\u00e8re de l\u2019artiste, qui a lutt\u00e9 contre la maladie ; un \u00ab portrait \u00bb statique du cancer, sur toile ; et une vid\u00e9o qui, projet\u00e9e sur celle-ci, provoque uner\u00e9flexion<\/em> sur le discours mat\u00e9riel. Entre microcosme et macrocosme, la fusion du visible et de l\u2019invisible s\u2019inverse elle-m\u00eame dans une cr\u00e9ation exploratoire ; s\u2019opposant \u00e0 la microsubstance observable, la voix y constitue \u00e0 peine une pr\u00e9sence auditive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contagious Matters associates biological matter, specifically cancer cells, with the concept of contagion, via using Tristan\u2019s working methodology : microethnography. This method-in-development, in its relational co-existence with ethnography, navigates or explores the micro world by examining micro matters’ social activities. 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