A collaborative programme for artists
The PRELIFE Artist Collaboration Programme offers artists the opportunity to engage deeply with scientific research into the origins of life, as independent researchers contributing their own perspectives and forms of knowledge. The programme is developed in partnership with the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (Caradt) and is grounded in the belief that artistic practice is a form of inquiry akin to science. The programme creates a shared space where artists and scientists engage through curiosity, experimentation, and critical reflection. The programme supports open-ended artistic research that can challenge and expand scientific perspectives.
Vision
The PRELIFE Artist Collaboration Programme invites artists to engage with interdisciplinary research on the origins of life as a space for artistic exploration, speculation, and knowledge production. Rather than positioning art as a tool to illustrate scientific results, the programme approaches artistic practice as a form of inquiry in its own right.
Artists and scientists are brought together in a context of reciprocal curiosity, where disciplinary boundaries can be challenged and expanded, and reframed. Within the PRELIFE consortium, artists can encounter diverse research environments: From computational modeling and laboratory experiments to field observations and technological development.
These encounters can open a shared space for imagination, critical reflection, and experimentation. The programme seeks artists who are interested in engaging with scientific contexts while maintaining the autonomy of their practice.
Through collaboration with researchers and interaction with societal partners and broader audiences, the participating artists contribute to expanding how questions on the origin of life can be addressed, perceived, interpreted, and communicated. Ultimately, the programme aims to cultivate a dialogue in which artistic and scientific practices mutually inform one another, creating new ways of thinking about and perspectives on the themes explored within PRELIFE.