PLASTIR 76 03/2025 ↵ Click here for the full issue
QUANTUM PSYCHE AND SYNCHRONICITY
François MARTIN is a former student at the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, Doctor of Physics (thesis on the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field), Bronze Medal of the CNRS (1975) and researcher in theoretical physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) (USA: 1976-78), at CERN (Geneva) – work on quarks – from 1978-1980, then at LAPP (Annecy-le-Vieux) – strong interaction between quarks – (1981-82). He was professor of mathematics at the Université de Savoie (Chambéry) from 1983-1987, before becoming a researcher at CNRS (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies (LPTE)- Université Paris VI – Travaux sur la Matière Noire dans l’Univers – until 2011. As early as 1991, he became interested in the study of synchronicity phenomena (Carl Gustav Jung, Wolfgang Pauli) and has since published several articles in this field, including NeuroQuantology, with Belal Baaquie (University of Singapore): Quantum Psyche – Quantum Field Theory of the Human Psyche in 2005, then in 2006 in collaborations with Giuliana Galli Carminati (psychiatrist, Geneva Hospitals) and Federico Carminati (physicist at CERN): Quantum Mechanics and Psyche. In 1993, he wrote a play: L’Astrominotaure. Corps perdu et Univers en expansion. (Comp’Act), which was performed in Geneva, Lyon and Paris (2011). In 2012, he collaborated with Dutch filmmaker Jan Diederen on a documentary entitled Synchronicity, which was broadcast on Dutch and Finnish channels (DVD on www.synchronicitydoc.com), and more recently published a book on the subject in collaboration with Thi Bich Doan entitled “A l’heure des synchronicités” (2020). After introducing the phenomena of synchronicity, then quantum physics, with particular emphasis on the principle of superposition and quantum entanglement, the author shows us in this article, published for the first time in a magazine, the analogy between the latter and the unconscious and conscious phenomena of the Psyche, and more specifically the phenomena of synchronicity. Again by analogy with the quantum fields of matter, he introduces a psychic quantum field in which consciousness is not merely a property emerging from the complexity of neural circuits, and concludes by showing that the experience of synchronicity constitutes, for him, a philosophy of life.
PAINTING SYMBIOCENE VIBRATIONS IN CHROMATIC RESONANCE AGAINST THE ANTHROPOCENE
Based in Montreal (QC, Canada), Louise BOISCLAIR, PhD, is an international lecturer, art critic (AICA-Canada), essayist, painter and poet. After a career in communications and video, she completed a doctorate at UQÀM (MAGG) and a postdoctorate at UdeM (FQRSC grant). Recipient of several awards and grants, she has written numerous articles in art and semiotics, book chapters and published, in Quebec and France, five essays specializing in immersive, interactive and sound art (2015-2021) followed by a collection of poetry (2024). Since 2018, she has also self-published five textimage notebooks. Under the LouB signature, Louise Boisclair explores a pictorial and scriptural language, interwoven and liberating, whose works are regularly exhibited. Like the aesthetic experience, she describes the artistic experience as a transformative process. Between essay and poetry, this article in PLASTIR explores the intricate plasticity inherent in LouB’s symbiocene collection. In ‘Art écosphérique : de l’anthropocène au symbiocène’ (L’Harrmattan 2021), la planète et nous vivant une cohabitation difficile, Louise Boisclair asks whether and how the encounter between art and the ecosphere could foster a revealing cohabitation. Inspired by the symbiocene movement, in 2024 she began a collection of paintings in homage to the living. Could the vibrations of the canvas induce promising chromatic resonances? After the aesthetic experience of a hundred works of ecospheric art, it’s time for the artistic experience of painting the symbiocene intention. Website: http://installationinteractive.blogspot.com
AT THE CROSSROADS OF A MATHEMATICS LABORATORY AND A MUSIC CREATION CENTER: THE ETHNOGRAPHER ALONGSIDE ART AND SCIENCE
Pierrick LEFRANC holds a doctorate in art sciences and research-creation (Université Aix-Marseille – Centre Norbert Elias), where he completed his thesis under the supervision of Jean-Paul Fourmentraux. He also holds a master’s degree in music anthropology (EHESS) and diplomas in music pedagogy (CRR Versailles, Pont Supérieur Rennes). Since 2012, he has directed the Compagnie Ici et Maintenant, dedicated to intercultural and inclusive projects that combine musical creation and ethnography. Between 2017 and 2020, he explored the invisible dynamics of artistic encounters at La Fonderie, in collaboration with audiences in situations of disability or exile. His research-creation thesis (2020) delved into the interactions between art, science and vernacular knowledge, drawing on a variety of writing modes (ethnographic, literary, musical, sound). In this context, he collaborated with OHMi Nunavik to involve Inuit populations in an Art/Science project based on soundscapes. From 2021 to 2024, Pierrick conducted observations and interviews at Athénor (CNCM) as part of Arts/Sciences projects, while participating in interdisciplinary collectives (TRAS, Labex DRIIHM). Her work reflects a strong commitment to methodological innovation and epistemic equity through collaboration between art and science. This article explores the collaboration between Athénor (CNCM), Centre National de Création Musicale, and the Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean-Leray (LMJL) at the University of Nantes, through cross-residencies between artists and scientists. These encounters question the way in which the processes of artistic and scientific creation are mutually nourishing, while raising tensions around the documentation and valorization of these exchanges. By tracing the emergence of Carnets Arts Sciences, the article highlights the challenges of ethnography at the crossroads of these disciplines, where research and creation meet without a predefined framework. It shows how art and science can transcend their traditional boundaries to generate new methodologies and transformative dialogues. Courriel : contact@pierricklefranc.com
THE AESTHETICS OF THE FALL, BETWEEN DECENTERING OF THE SUBJECT AND SKETCHES OF THE SPECULATIVE REAL
Nathalie ROUDIL is director of the Institut de formation Noesis. She teaches hypnotherapy at the University of Corte, as well as in various medical settings. The Noesis practice offers philosophical teaching and hypnoanalysis consultations. With a degree in human sciences, at the intersection of aesthetics, poetics and psychoanalysis, she has followed the teachings of Giorgio Agamben and François Roustang, among others. Her current work intersects the fields of contemporary philosophy, particularly speculative realism, and therapy. He questions how aesthetics and poetics can redefine the experience of care. The aim is to go beyond correlationism and anthropocentrism and explore new paradigms for interaction with reality. At the same time, she is developing an artistic practice in dialogue with her work. Nathalie Roudil contributed to Plastir 39, 06/2015 on the aesthetics of the ineffable in relation to the work of Y. Tordjman’s work. This article explores Dante’s fall “E caddi come corpo morto cade” as a prism through which to reflect on its philosophical, aesthetic and ethical implications. Starting with Canto V of the Inferno, where Dante “falls like a dead body”, two currents of thought shed light on this fall. Speculative realism, which challenges correlationism to envisage an autonomous reality, and hypnosis or perceptuality, a notion developed by François Roustang. Far from freezing the subject in a subjective interpretation, these two currents establish an immediate presence in the world, while revealing an inescapable withdrawal. In this way, the poet’s fall is akin to an atmospheric suspension, a space where reality reveals itself while escaping all appropriation. This shift in perspective reconfigures our relationship with the world and our responsibility within the living web.
