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EVA ZORNIO Selected Works and Exhibitions ©Emilie Bonnet
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EVA ZORNIO
Selected Works and Exhibitions
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Eva Zornio was born in the 1980s in Switzerland. After a first degree in biology and a master’s degree in neurosciences, Eva Zornio directs the field of her research towards the visual arts. First cinema, then contempo-rary art, following the Work.Master program at HEAD - Geneva. By developing an inquiry method she seeks to explore the emergence and use of concepts that cross different disciplinary fields and that relate to affects, to the storytelling produced by scientific culture (The Mirror System, 2015) and to the governance strategies related (Neuromythe, 2017). In 2018, she created a group called Affective Evaluation, the fic-titious spaces created under this name invite visitors to grasp the agen-tivity that arises from the significant units. Out of this framework emerge performances such as Study on empathy n°1 and n°2 (2018) where the spectator takes the role of a participant in the study, or Affective Evalua-tion: Reception Area (2019) that turns an exhibition space into an affective applied science lab.
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGSUPCOMINGSupermarket Art Fair 2020, StockolmEspace Libre : artist in residency, Bienne (CH)2019Etudes sur l’Empathie, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris) - a proposal by Charlotte Laubard *Cantonale Berne-Jura, Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH) *Sauve qui peut, LiveInYourHead (Geneva) - invited by Pierre Bal-Blanc *Nothing is always something (to an observer), LiveInYourHead (Geneva) - a proposal by Christophe Kihm *The Mirror System on Tënk - https://www.tenk.fr/les-films-de-la-head/le-systeme-miroir.html2018 XVIIe Biennale of visarte.jura - Fours à Chaux of St-Ursanne *Summer Academy ISR x HEAD, Swiss Institute (Rome) - invited by Christophe Kihm Image : Reading at Forde (Geneva) - a proposal by Sylvain Ménetrey et Nicolas Brühlart *Vedo Non Vedo à l’Institut Suisse (Rome) - a proposal by Martina-Sofie Wildberger and Elise LammerL’Élément Contingent à LiveInYourHead (Genève) - a proposal by Una Szeeman and Bohdan Stehlik *Silicat Places’s Release Party à Smallville (Neuchâtel)- invited by Swann ThommenRetour de Pistes à Duplex/Walden (Genève) - invited by Madeleine Amsler Marie-Eve Knoerle2017Technologies of violence à la Casa Encendida (Madrid) - invited by Maria MorataSummer Academy ISR x HEAD, Swiss Institute (Roma) -invited by Yann Chateigné2016 Taiwan International Documentary Festival 51. Solothurner Filmtage, competitionJournées de Soleure - Upcoming lab2015Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, international competitionJihlava International Film Festival - Inspiration Forum2011Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Elysée
PUBLICATIONS & PRESSEtudes sur L’Empathie, HEAD - Geneva, 2019Science on the Screen, article by Roberta Kwok, Nature 553, 2018L’élément contingent, HEAD - Geneva, 2018
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES2019 Grant and artist’s studio at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), january - june 2020Ateliers de la Ville de Genève, session 2019/21, Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Geneva
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS2018Jura’s collection of fine arts * collective exhibitions
While striving to develop concrete thinking based on a pragmatic ap-proach, I use theories, representations and methods of different scienti-fic approaches as instruments to progress in investigations and experi-ments. I’m dealing with concepts related to «le sensible» and my interest focuses more particularly on empathy, emotions, bodies and intersub-jectivity, whether from a social or biological point of view. It is about cir-culating, decomposing/recomposing, feeling around for, experimenting, tinkering and multiplying the axes of view while linking ethics, aesthetics and knowledge.
My artistic practice is inspired by what can be called «art as research» where an interest in knowledge and a willingness to understand are es-sential. By systematizing curiosity I produce forms that intertwine art and science. As a result, the political dimension linked to affects emerges : how late capitalism and applied sciences are creating gouvernance tech-nologies and technics that focus on our intimate lifes and our inner body reactions?
Various locations become spaces for studies, experiments, installations or presentations, producing a territory that links plastic work, perfor-mance and research. Texts, datas, images, videos, meetings, research notebooks converge in an artistic constellation that present mechanics of ideas and methods producing.
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Affective Evaluation: Reception Area, 2019
F4 numeric prints on paper mounted on aluminium plate 2mm, aromatherapy diffusorCollective exhibition, Etudes sur l’Empathie, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris/FR) december 2019
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Affective Evaluation: Reception Area, 2019Questionnaires to be completed, business cards, plexiglas table and storage, stylos, chairsCollective exhibition, Etudes sur l’Empathie, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris/FR), december 2019
Affective Evaluation is a group created by Eva Zornio in 2018 and whose interests focus on topics related to affect theories. The work me-thodologies are transdisciplinary and produce plastic forms and spaces. The group aesthetics are shaped by the system of signs coming from neoliberalism instrumentalisation and population management. By crea-ting experimental units, the interventions and pieces invite the audience to step out of the role of spectator to act within the relational context created in the exhibition space.
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Affective Evaluation: International Fair of Empathy, 2019
F4 numeric prints on paper mounted on mdf wood plate 8mm, A2 numeric prints on paper mounted on mdf wood plate 8mm, glass and wood table, business cards and wood support, æ cup, æ magazines, æ marketing video on tablet, filled A4 inscription sheet to a study, pen and stylos Collective exhibition, Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH), december 2019
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Affective Evaluation: Study on Empathy n° 1 and n° 2, 2018Numeric view of a result presented as a performance at HEAD - Geneva, january 2018
Affective Evaluation: Study on Empathy in Party Context (2019)PerformanceS.A.S Cyberrance (Paris/FR), october 2019
Drawing by participant n°002.(Study on Empathy during Party Context, 2019, Affective Evaluation)
Questionnaire filled by participant n°002.(Study on Empathy during Party Context, 2019, Affective Evaluation)
To watch the diaporama of empathy drawings by participants 001 - 033 : https://vimeo.com/379025873/ed34421686
Rocking Unit, 2019
WoodPerformance program and collective exhibition, Sauve qui Peut, LiveInYourHead (GE/CH), september 2019
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Zero, 2019Performance for one performer, 84’FlowersPerformance program and collective exhibition, Sauve qui Peut, LiveInYourHead (GE/CH), september 2019
No cameras, no cellphones, no videos, 2019Installation for various usersCinema lighting, ikea furniture covered with fabric, æ embroideries, carpetPerformance program and collective exhibition, Sauve qui Peut, LiveInYourHead (GE/CH), september 2019
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Affective Evaluation: Institute, 2019
F4 numeric prints on paper mounted on mdf wood plate 8mm, wood table and stools, glass jug, gym matHead - Geneva, june 2019
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An attempt to represent Human Empathy, 2017
Diagram from the Empathy VolumeChinese ink and watercolor
Affective Evaluation: Institute, 2019Numeric prints, Tossa tablesHead - Geneva, june 2019
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Research Notes (excerpts), 2019Numeric printsCollective exhibition, Etudes sur l’Empathie, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, december 2019Booklet edited by Head - Geneva, december 2019
Affective Evaluation: Eva and Yasmine on Affects, 2019 Affective Evaluation: Yasmine’s body practice, 2019
Video 10’Head - Geneva, june 2019vimeo : https://vimeo.com/354160645/1f8c513e34
Video 15’Head - Geneva, june 2019
vimeo : https://vimeo.com/354094244/5234c90c28
Syna, 2018Wood, glass, china ink, plastic bag, plaster, water, metallic suspension
Collective exhibition, L’élément contingent, LiveInYourHead (GE/CH), may 2018
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"The paramecium is dead. Apparently I killed it. I wanted to watch those forms, those tiny variations of emergence I was looking for a microscope I thought I would be able to see the invisible. I wanted to observe how form is emerging from a movement in a neurochemical valley and becoming what one can observe in an extended splash of attention. I found a live product to order: a parame-cium. When I saw the picture I knew it would be mine !
A wave of excitement drushed to my body
I would give it so much love. And it would love me back for ever.Emotions exists, don’t they ? But why do they exist ? And what do they do ? Full of emotions is my paramecium. It swims closer when it feels safe.It flies away when danger is coming.
A microscopic being : one simple cell.
When specific conditions are satisfied the form emerges. It re-mains there for a while, affecting the course of events. And when specific conditions are not met anymore, the form disappears."
Life and Death of a Paramecium (2018)Performance 15’Live editing with voice, videos and soundsSmallville (NE/CH), may 2018
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Neuromythes (2017)Performance 15’, video stills
Live mixing with videos and soundsHEAD - Geneva, january 2017
The Mirror System (2015)Short film 15’, video stills
HEAD x Elefant films, june 2015vimeo : https://vimeo.com/132428571
