Study at ENSAPC

Alejandra Riera – Carla Adra

“Where does it remain that which doesn’t fit into words?” What does the reality and future of the written text in an artwork mean for the text itself and for the person receiving it? How do you make this transition from text to its presentation? These questions are the starting point for this workshop, which invites to create a time to think about how the text could be shown in plastic arts, starting with our own writings or those that we quote in an artistic work.

Three sessions will be led by Gabriela Kraviez, an artist whose research highlights the plurality of languages inside the language. Describing her practice of reading and re-reading, underlining and rewriting fragments of philosophical texts, visible in her collages, Gabriela evokes her interest for the materiality of words and language games.

Together with her, we will study a series of artists who will help us to understand how these questions of appearance, erasure, diversion and presentation of the text have been thought through plastically.

Boris Achour, Charlotte Charbonnel, Judith Perron

The first graphic representations of space, terrestrial or stellar, go back to the beginning of humanity. Creating and using maps fulfil several wishes and needs: To understand and organise the world: maps are essential tools helping humans to define and explain their paths across the world, to move around, to navigate, to explore and discover. To communicate information: maps can be used to convey geographical, historical, sensory and cultural knowledge. To take decisions: maps are essential tools for land development, urban planning, navigation, natural resources management and military planning, but also for visualising and structuring thinking (mind-mapping). Cartography is far from being a simple objective representation of geographical reality however and is deeply influenced by the historical, cultural, political and social contexts within which it is produced.

As part of this third season of Kolektiva, we wish to invite you to collectively think and create the cartography of a chosen territory, be it physical, mental or sensory. Or all three at once…

L’IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil et Christian Genty

Furthering students’ personal research into photographic production, developing their originality and autonomy in relation to an existing body of visual work. Confrontation with personalities from the world of photography.

Jeff Guess and Judith Perron

‘When it comes to their specialty, specialists can no longer be held back’.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Pilote de guerre, XXIII, 1942.

You have expertise outside the art world. You’re passionate about it and you have the skills to qualify as a specialist in a secret practice. This Arc is for you! We invite you to meet specialists in extraordinary professions in their workplaces. We will be speaking to people who have imagined new ways of doing things, developed skills and devised working methods to build new fields of experience. By discovering the enthusiasm of our guests, the accuracy and inventiveness of their tools, and the openness offered by this new knowledge, we hope to find a permeability with the field of art that would enable us to rethink our own ways of doing.

These meetings will be accompanied by a collective reflection on your expertise and the invention of transmission methods in line with your specialisation.

LES YEUX FERMÉS

Florent Caron Darras, Charlotte Charbonnel, Alejandra Riera
In collaboration with the sound workshop

It is perhaps the immateriality and invisibility of the sound wave that takes precedence over its properties in the concepts of the ecology of sound and listening. Sound provides information about the environment in a different way to sight, by giving us access to the off-screen, to what is furthest away from us as much as by significantly informing us about the world close to us.

We are so used to seeing at the same time as we are hearing it- what if we closed our eyes to renew our attention to the world? What if we closed our eyes to displace attention to our other senses? What would be the equivalent to deep listening for the senses of touch, taste and smell?

This ARC will be an invitation to experiment tasting, touching, feeling and listening to art. An immersion over three Wednesdays in the second semester with the help of a specialist to guide us.

Alejandra Riera, Laurence Vidil, Samuel Garland, Guillaume Breton (Ygrec), Nicolas Charbonnier.

‘LES AVANT-CHOSES, pré-histoire d’un lieu’ is the provisional title of the exhibition we are going to build together, and which will run from ^1st February to 22^nd March 2025 at the YGREC-ENSAPC Art Centre. The ARC lieux-passerelles, entours is looking back at the archives it has built up over these last four years, in dialogue with Guillaume Breton, Laurence Vidil, Samuel Garland and Nicolas Charbonnier. Following on from the experiment with the ARC, the idea is to share – from this archive of imprints, drawings, photographs, films, clay pieces, sound and text pieces, performance documents and a specific wooden piece (to come) – our experience of the plot of land allocated to the building of the future arts school in Cergy, before the specifications for the building site began with its own prerogatives.

During these four years of transition towards “the future school”, we have focused on what was not meant to be thought of nor observed, on the concrete reality of a space itself, its farming past, the land of a rural village buried under an administrative estate. We will attempt to reveal this existence in its singular glory, different and more complex than any geometer’s maps or other utilitarian spatial approaches. On the contrary, we will try to make room for the poetics of the relationship with this place, by encouraging a policy of attention.