e-Galaxy in Poitiers & Rouillé:
Residencies, Transmission & Rural Encounters

In late 2025 and early 2026, ‘e-Galaxy’ continued its journey in France through residencies, exhibitions, workshops, and public activations at Le Lieu Multiple in Poitiers and Rurart in Rouillé. These two contexts offered very different experiences of participation and engagement — one situated within a media arts and educational environment in the city–Espace Mendes France, the other within a rural agricultural school and cultural centre surrounded by fields and winter landscapes. Together, they became important moments of transmission, experimentation, and exchange around sustainability, electronic waste, collective making, and our relationship with technology.

At Rurart in Rouillé

e-Galaxy took on another dimension within the context of a rural arts centre connected to an agricultural high school. The installation unfolded during winter, surrounded by open landscapes, cold weather, and unexpected snowstorms that transformed the atmosphere of the residency. The contrast between technology and the rural environment strongly resonated with the themes of the project. I facilitated five workshops with students from the agricultural college, inviting them to dismantle devices, handle electronic components, and create artist books. Because some workshops lasted only one hour, I developed formats that allowed students to quickly engage with the materials while still producing meaningful outcomes. The artist books proved particularly effective, combining electronic fragments, images, textures, and reflections within a short timeframe. Displayed together at Rurart, they formed a continuous line around the space like an equator, extending and echoing the spiral movement of the labyrinth on the floor.

Both residencies strengthened the educational and participatory dimensions of ‘e-Galaxy’, highlighting the importance of collective making, tactile engagement, and shared reflection in addressing sustainability and technological culture today.

This project received support from several organisations, including Ateliers du Bocage, HTP Multimédia, Phon’avenue, and Max e-informatique. It also received support from Cultures connectés, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, and the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

English translation of the podcast featuring reflections from students and participants following the e-Galaxy residency in Poitiers.

In December 2025 and January 2026, the multi-purpose venue Espace Mendes France and Rurart, a contemporary art center in Rouillé, hosted artist and performer Suzon Fuks. Her work, blending video, performance, and immersive installations, invites viewers to a participatory and reflective experience. As an artist committed to sustainable development, Suzon Fuks uses art and science to denounce and raise awareness about current issues, such as the impact of technology on humanity and the environment.

In her project entitled e-Galaxy, Suzon Fuks seeks to raise awareness about overconsumption and planned obsolescence. As part of this project, she offered several workshops at the Nelson Mandela High School in Poitiers, with students specializing in computer science, cybersecurity, and electronic networks, and at the Venours High School in Rouillé, where participants could participate in designing a large galaxy and create smaller versions. The project culminated in the installation at Mendès France Cultural centre.

• “We arrived and were greeted by Suzon, who led us into a space and explained the day’s schedule, what we were going to do, and shared her passion, what she was doing there, where she came from—she introduced herself.”
• “I adore Suzon because she doesn’t need to show off, but she naturally conveys her project, her fight, so to speak, energetically.”
• “Kind, funny, joyful, and sunny.”
• “She has her own personality, and she has blue hair. She has a zest for life.”
• “Then, after we arrived, we went down some stairs to a dark space filled with black.
• In the center of this room, there was a spiral. A spiral with electronic components. There were RAM sticks, motherboards, resistors, things like that.”
• “All the components that make up everything we have at home. That was the goal of the exhibition. Most of the components at home are in boxes, they are enclosed, so we don’t realize everything that’s inside, and everything that costs to produce.”
• “And as Suzon told us, these are very rare materials. Many countries are currently fighting for these resources; we still see it today, unfortunately, for these resources that are becoming increasingly scarce and will become even more so. This is also due to a society of overconsumption, of always wanting more.”
• “Some people have two, three, or even four phones, even though only one is used. So that’s something that really needs to be addressed, and I think Suzon is right to speak up about it. We went through that spiral, and Suzon explained what we needed to do, to think about objects in specific rooms, while we were walking.”
• “For example, we started in the kitchen, we found the refrigerators, the oven, the microwave, etc. Then we went to the office, there were the computers, keyboards, mice, or maybe even the electric heaters. Then there are other rooms in the house too, like the washing machine, things like that.”
• “She asked us questions, like how many electronic devices we had in our house, in our bedroom, in our kitchen, and we all said 10, 20, but in reality we had over 400.”
• “I saw that there were a lot, and I didn’t understand why they weren’t all repaired, but rather replaced instead of being repaired. There were so many of them, almost all the same, and they didn’t all have the same defects, so it would have been easier to replace the faulty parts. Throwing things away creates waste, whereas repairing them means you’re just getting rid of the problem, not the whole device.”
• “Then we went into another space, which was a bit separate from the first space we came into, and she showed us structures she had made herself, created with recycled objects. The sphere with the SIM cards, which is one of the pieces she created, and which I really like, made me think of the planet Earth, of the world we live in. Making this sphere with SIM cards represents the world well, because we use these SIM cards to communicate, use the internet, and lots of other things like that, and it’s really interesting.”
• “She explained that we had to do a project, create a structure, using non-functional electronic devices, which she had collected and sorted so we could make sculptures. There were RAM sticks, computers, hard drives, phones, motherboards, and keyboards. For example, I made a chessboard using black and white keyboard keys on an HP laptop case.”
• “I made a robot. I made it with a case fan from a PC tower. It can represent pretty much anything in today’s world.”
• “I made an Eiffel Tower out of discs and keyboards. With Nathanaël. Faris and I made a model where, using RAM sticks, we wrote I and A to denounce the increase in RAM due to AI.”
• “In fact, when you send a message to an AI to do something, for example, the AIs are housed in large buildings with many servers. So, to cool the servers, we use water, lots of water, lots of water. Therefore, we have to be careful.”
• “Then we created a sort of spiral. Then we had to present the sculpture. Then it was displayed for all to see.”
• “What was great about the exhibition was that it also allowed us, my classmates, to get together. It was a good time for us too. There aren’t many opportunities like that.”
• “I think it’s great. We’re in a vocational baccalaureate program, so we’re studying cybersecurity and electronic networks. Our future career will probably be in electronics repair.”
• “When we saw that, we realized it was possible to repair things instead of throwing them away. With just a few things, you can do a lot. For me, it was Suzon’s personality that really appealed to me.”
• “I thought she was a very bold person because, I believe, you have to dare to speak your mind. And Suzon, you can see that she really wants to make a difference. That’s the quality of her that I really appreciated.”