About

Ash Périer is currently developing a in)disciplinary Situated practice working on projects merging environmental conservation efforts, experimental art approach and local knowledges from the fields she investigates. For the past five years, her work has been focused on water ecosystems with a situated approach. 

Situated practices, a concept articulated by the philosopher Donna Haraway in 1988, refer to ways of producing knowledge through actions that are grounded in specific positions and contexts, rejecting the fiction of only one neutral, universal form of knowledge. They form a political project that challenges dominant and opressive regimes and supports collective, localized, and emancipatory modes of action attentive to humans and the entangled forces of the worlds they are part of.

Collaborating with artists, researchers, encounters and coïncidences, they create objects, texts, pluri-sensorial installations and methods that take care of water ecosystems by working on the alteration of percepts and affects with a concrete positive environmental impact. 
Each sensory installation aims to reach beyond the limits of the art world by investigating contexts of environmental conservation and non-academic knowledges.



The aim of each project is not to en-
courage people to become more sensitive
(a convenient catch-all phrase) 
but to make them capable 
of greater attention.
 




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Contact

Ash Périer
ashleyperier1@gmail.com
Instagram : @ash.perier





























  WATER-BASED RESEARCH







Between Brussels and Sydney.
MURMURATION

MURMURATION is a situated and multidisciplinary research project initiated by Ash Périer that studies the destruction of kelp forests on a global scale.

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Between Brussels and Sydney
SUBMARINE DESERT/FOREST

My intention was to say: “I went somewhere, I experienced something, and I return to bear witness to it,” through this kinetic and polysensory installation.

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Centre Pompidou x Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Beaubourg, Paris. 13.09.2024
BANQUET

A lot happened that night at the Centre Pompidou of Paris...
Amongst them : experimental food, playful methodologies, postapocalyptic care, soft explosions, rock and tree licking, electrochoc readings and active participation of visitors all within a radical austerity in the means of production.


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Between Brussels and Slovenia.
MOULTING : DEPOLLUTING LAKES FROM FOSSIL FUEL 

This work started from a precise situation : water contaminated by petrol leaks. Moulting explores ways to take care of water in a poetical but also concretely effective site specific manner involving local comunities in 3 steps... 


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Brussels
ECOTONE / CONTACT ZONE


This installation requires visitor’s touch to activate the smells, lights, shadows and movments thereby engaging unsulually with sensation and perceptions of water.


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