For station 9, the space brain Laboratory is invited at La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, on the occasion of the exhibition Sous influences, arts plastiques et psychotropes. This study day deals with the role of hallucinogenic substances on the work of artists, as for example Henri Michaux. Drug acts on perception in order to modify it, or to shift it. It provokes a “perceptual change of scenery”, and allow a renewal in the relation to the world: thus, the body becomes thought, and the thought get a body.

Round-table discussion with Jean-Pol Tassin, neurobiologist, addiction specialist ; Denis Cerclet, anthropologist and lecturer at Université Lyon II ; Arnauld Pierre, critic and art historian, professor at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) ; Nathalie Ergino, director of Institut d’Art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes ; Ann Veronica Janssens, artist ; Jean-Louis Poitevin, philosopher ; Miguel Egaña, artist.

Jean-Pol Tassin, “Comment certains psychotropes modifient nos perceptions et/ou nous rendent dépendants” [how some psychotropics modify our perception and/our make us addicted]