Laurent Labourmène has been creating spaces, projects and works for people to consider new perspectives for over 20 years. This journey began with the United Nations in Europe and North America and later as a social entrepreneur, foresight researcher and practitioner and today as an artist and cultural producer.
His recent artistic works engage human and non-human animals, the living and the not-yet-born, silence, sound, text and the imagination as agents for inviting us to consider our interconnectedness with a living planet in the context of geological time and change.
In 2020 he was one of 8 artists from across Australia who participated in the Australia Council for the Arts funded Community Transmissions artist residency, including its related exhibition, Uploading: New Futures in Progress. His proposal for a long-durational contemporary arts initiative that will unfold over, and be enabled by, multiple generations was recently awarded seed funding and support from Arts Northern Rivers.
Named an Architect of the Future by the Waldzell Institute in Europe, Laurent’s work in the field of societal and cultural change has been profiled in multiple publications and incorporated into a ‘social sculpture’ created by American artists Clegg & Guttmann and housed at Melk Abbey, Austria. With a background in the social sciences, more recently he has studied field recording and soundscape composition (Goldsmiths, University of London) and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in contemporary art (VCA, University of Melbourne).