Correlations Index

Digital installation, public command for the ministery of education, Lille, France. Agence Escudié-Fermaut architecture. 1175x250cm, 2019.

Design, making: Magali Desbazeille
Visualization of OpenData: Sébastien Courvoisier
Graphic design: Adrien Tison
Fabric: Sarragalla
Production: Illusion-Macadam / BIPOLAR-production
Interns: Ema Dufour, Jérome Girard, Noémie Pilo, Onitiana Radanielina, Mégane Remadna, Sindy Said
Thanks: Eric Prigent, Juliette Zumbiehl
With the help of La Générale, artistic, political and social corporation

About statistics and the language of education as a marker of an era.

Description

Correlations Index is installed in the reception hall of the Lille Rectorat building. The work consists of a raised metal wall and video-projected texts. The raised wall represents a number of dynamic curves taken from statistical graphs in base 100, a frequent analysis modality used by the French Ministry of Education.
The index of correlations offers an immersion in time, based on lexical fields from several eras, symbolic of access to and transmission of knowledge. Texts inhabit these statistics in relief. We would be in the year 2150, and we would see these textual elements as a distancing that could be described as retro-fiction.
In the logic of a marker, the texts are an invitation to explore language through time. Three temporalities are articulated: past, present and future. Extracts from texts about knowledge are collected from the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, as well as from current writings and fiction. They are displayed generatively, around semantic fields inspired by the “celebration days” and prizes that accompany all “educational actions”.