Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and Sylvain Menétrey, A Spaced Out Artistic Experiment, 2016

A trace of a 2014 conference at Corner College in Zürich, as well as a new creation of texts and images, this publication progresses through spirals and revolutions in an attempt to define the notion of Semiospace. The polysemic concept proliferates and moves through foldings and unfoldings according to a model in permanent expansion, serving as a working methodology and creator of an installation in movement. Its generative dynamic reveals little by little its ambition of a theory of everything, and flows outward into the chaos of the cosmos. Is it about reading the signs of the universe so as to better organize them into fictional models and alternative realities? Or proposing discursive architectures of space in order to travel ever further into the depths of thought? A different sort of monograph, the Semiospace presents the work of the artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington by proposing a panorama of her three creative laboratories: the Laboratory for Idea Engineering, the Small-Scale Sensory Image Industry, and the Poetic Refinery.