ÉCHOTONE
ARTIST-RUN SPACE COLLECTIVELY PERFORMED IN TIME
An artist-run art space, ÉCHOTONE is dedicated to experimentation and artistic research.
Each year, ÉCHOTONE hosts new artist residencies and an art critic residency, which are conducted over a long period of time (ranging from one to three years). Each resident receives support based on their needs in the development of their project: research and writing, technical, administrative, and financial support, production of works, installation, etc.
The space, with a total surface area of 130m², is equipped with a large 70m² room, 4m high, a 15m² glass roof with a professional press, a laboratory dedicated to the practice of traditional photographic processes, such as photoengraving on photopolymer (exposure, color and black and white enlarger, printing press), as well as another section dedicated to chemistry (still, micro-distiller, oil press).
ÉCHOTONE is also the headquarters of two associations: LAAB, Laboratoire Associatif d’Art et de Botanique, created in 2007, whose collective research is dedicated to the expressiveness of living things, and the platform for listing project spaces: artist-run-spaces.org. The latter, initiated in 2013, reflects on the archive and the plastic dimension of spaces dedicated to art.