Study at ENSAPC

ALTÉRITÉS

Laure Limongi
Guests : Doha Khalout (poet), Bérengère Cournut (writer), Gaëtane Martinot (artist, graduated from ENSAPC), Lucie Rico (writer).
Partners: Centre Wallonie Bruxelles

A writing workshop for all levels of previous experience, Altérités invites us to look elsewhere to see to which extent our ‘I’ and our ‘me’ are not to be found there, the better to free our gestures and open up the field of our thinking. Other lives than our own, as Emmanuel Carrère would write, modalities of existence that are not simply human: we can try to write as an animal or a tree, as a mineral or a bacterium, take an interest in a historical period, an object, the vibration of a colour… anything that will allow us to take the time to define our own writing rhythm, to develop a method, to organise our research. To shift the focus away from the human, to see what would happen to a less Anthropocene, less authoritarian, more polyphonic and colourful world, and what languages and forms we would invent to express it.

In addition to the contributors specific to the studio, enrolled students will be invited to attend a number of events in the ARC Création & Écologie programme. A one-day workshop with Fanette Mellier, organised in the second semester, will be open to studio students who wish to display their texts within installations. A one-day workshop in Nicolas Charbonnier’s sound studio will be organised in the second semester to address issues of public reading and recording (also by enrolment).

ATELIER BOIS (WOODWORKING WORKSHOP)

Samuel Garland

This studio, which is open to all year groups, is a place where students can learn to work with wood. Through theoretical and practical classes, it aims to enable students to tackle the design tools (drawing, materials, tool/aesthetic relationship) and production tools (power tools, workshop machines, hand tools) essential to the manufacture of a piece of woodwork. Throughout the course, students will be required to analyse, experiment and create around a subject chosen each year. At the end of the semester, students will present their work in a group exhibition.

ATELIER SERIGRAPHIE (SILKSCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP)

Bérénice Lefebvre

Graphic design has always been used as a tool to rally the masses and influence public opinion. The revolutions of the 20th century have given rise to communities of resistance that will mark an abrupt change in the history of graphics and poster design.

This tradition continued and diversified with the social movements of the 1950s and 1960s around the world, alongside which many artists and graphic designers experimented freely with new forms that would adapt to the issues of society as a whole. Posters became more colourful and daring, reflecting the spirit of freedom and rebellion of the time. Silk-screen printing revitalised the production techniques of the time and became a tool for processing images that massively transformed artistic practices, at odds with the industrial and advertising worlds. With the advent of the digital age in the 1990s and 2000s, militant graphic design embraced the possibilities offered by the internet and graphic design software, enabling unprecedented dissemination and collaboration. With the advent of the digital age in the 1990s and 2000s, militant graphic design embraced the possibilities offered by the internet and graphic design softwares, enabling unprecedented dissemination and collaboration.

ATELIER SON (SOUND WORKSHOP)

Nicolas Charbonnier

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Studio permettant d’acquérir des techniques essentielles au travail du son dans les différentes étapes de la chaîne audio (enregistrement, édition, mixage, création). Ces techniques seront questionnées à l’aune des enjeux esthétiques qui y sont associés. D’une semaine sur l’autre, un travail de création/composition de courtes études sonores liées à ces techniques sera demandé. Dans un second temps, une pièce sonore plus conséquente (radiophonique, musicale, poésie sonore) devra être composée.

Chaque session commence par une écoute de différentes pièces sonores (radiophoniques, musicales, installation sonore, fieldrecording, études créées dans le cadre du studio, etc). À chaque session, un point technique différent est abordé et questionné via une pratique directe (enregistrement de terrain, enregistrement en studio, apprentissage des bases du mixage, etc).

Il sera demandé de réaliser de courtes études au fil du semestre. Enfin, une pièce sonore devra être réalisée pour la fin du semestre.

CINEMA

Vincent Gérard

Teacher/Associated technical workshops : Jean-Luc Jusseau (Studio Vidéo), Nicolas Charbonnier (Studio Son), Christian Genty (Studio Photo), Laure Limongi (Studio Altérité)

Guests: Jean-Raymond Garcia (filmmaker, producer), Noah Teichner (filmmaker, artist, researcher), Eugénie Deplus (post production supervisor), Loo Hui Phang (writer, screenwriter for films and comics – teacher at ERG, Bruxelles), Cédric Laty (filmmaker, producer – director of photography and postproduction supervisor)

Partners: La Maison Des Productions (Bourgogne), Sondor Films (Paris Bordeaux), Perspective Films (Paris), Navire Argo (Épinay), Re:Voir (éditeur, ressource, Paris), Festival Arte Mare (Bastia), SCAM (Paris), Laboratoire de développement film ANDEC (Berlin), Polygone étoilé (Marseille), Kodak (France et Londres)

The studio Cinéma is dedicated to defining what an artistic project in cinema can be today. Without having the desire or the illusion of replacing a professional film school – for which it has neither the means nor the aims – it does not ignore the economic or technical realities of this medium. In this place of confrontation and hybridisation of fine art languages that an art school represents, the aim is to question the cinema-machine and its digital avatars by making it work according to a different regime of fiction and representation of reality. Note: the films produced by the Studio Cinéma are not subject to any restrictions of form, genre or time.

CONFRONTATION AUX ŒUVRES

Eric Dalbis, with Stéphanie Katz
In partnership with musée du Louvre and Petit Palais

The aim is to confront works chosen from the museum’s collections, mainly from the 13th to 18th centuries, to question and analyse them, but also to question one’s own artistic practice in its intentions and gestures, while referring to a memory, to filiations, to a culture…

DANSE

Judith Perron
Guests: Mathieu Bouvier, Julie Pellegrin

Performing, taking risks, being together, moving our bodies, twisting our faces… This journey will be an opportunity to experiment with the body. Each half-day will be devoted to a proposal/exercise based on pre-existing practices and involving different states of the body. These different methodologies, sensitive experiences, sometimes introspective, sometimes disordered, will enable us to refine our relationship to the context, to what constitutes a sign, to the spoken word, to the other.

We will welcome the following researchers:
— Mathieu Bouvier: Doctor of Philosophy in Art and researcher whose theoretical work focuses primarily on the dance studio.
— Julie Pellegrin: Curator, author and researcher, Julie Pellegrin is interested in performance in the broadest sense, and in practices that address social, political and ethical issues with an emphasis on the notions of relationship and attention.

ESPACES D’ESPACES

Florent Caron Darras, Nicolas Charbonnier

In the tradition of sound installation, it is a certain experience of space that always seems to be at play with sound. In a given environment, bodies of sound produce waves or interact with them. Whether these bodies of sound are loudspeakers or objects without membranes or electricity, they are most often placed before the eyes of visitors, who are then as much listeners as viewers. This necessarily raises the question of choice in this arrangement: which spots, which orientations, which shapes? How can we compose sound spaces for tangible spaces? How can we turn apparent technology into a vector of meaning? The aim of this studio is to work together to investigate these fundamental questions in the aesthetic approach to sound.

IMAGES ET RESSEMBLANCE

Christian Genty and Jean-Luc Jusseau
Associated technical workshops: PHOTO and VIDEO/CINEMA 

This studio is aimed at students who want to start working with photo and video media. The aim of the studio, as a learning space both theoretical and practical, is to provide students with the resources they need to reflect on in order to produce their own research. The challenge is to experiment without preconceived ideas, to test the technique in all its possibilities and limits. In photography and video, equipment is inevitable. Initially, the aim is to familiarise the students with the equipment and the handling of the machines:

– Photographic and video shooting, production and post-production.
– Reflection on the use of colour in photography and video.
– Workshop on the use of light as a medium in the production of photography and video production.
– Work on writing, producing and directing videos, editing, colour grading, motion design and finishing.

A specific post-production module will be opened to a small group of students following on from the filming carried out this year. This module will be scheduled independently of the Friday morning meetings.

KIOSK

Lead teacher: Bérénice Lefebvre
Related technical workshops: screen printing workshop and woodworking workshop

Kiosk is a piece of furniture to be imagined, for showcasing prints as a medium in their own right, a vehicle for creative expression, both individual and collective. A modular, fragmented, removable space for displaying books, zines, comics and all kinds of publications, clothing, multiple editions and posters, with a single aim: to disseminate printed formats at the crossroads of many different fields. This modular, adaptable and potentially portable space becomes a place for sharing tastes and ideas, a means of dissemination to be seized and made accessible, with a constant focus on promoting those who have limited access to the market and whose creations are not found in the usual distribution channels. It aims to stimulate exchange and creation with the intention of bringing together and making available to the community a means of making contributions and exchanging information for all useful purposes, and above all inviting everyone to freely engage with playful, poetic and eminently political subjects.

Method: The screen printing and woodworking workshops are joining forces for a three-week workshop at ENSAPC. This immersive format will allow us to create a hybrid combination of screen printing and woodworking. Two leading figures specialising in graphic design, typography, publishing and architecture will be invited to work with us to produce a form that can be deployed in a variety of settings and events.

LABORATOIRE DES ÉCRITURES POÉTIQUES (POETIC WRITINGS LABORATORY)

Christophe Manon

We will explore different trends, look at examples, and use writing prompts and suggestions to advance step by step in the practice of poetry. We will also take a practical look at issues related to the production of a book of poetry in order to better understand the economics of publishing and its challenges. This course will culminate in the creation of a collective printed book, as well as the organisation of one or more reading-performance events in partnership with various institutional venues or bookshops, such as the Maison de la Poésie in Paris and the Le Monte-en-l’air bookshop.

LA FABRIQUE

Laure Limongi
Partners: CY Cergy Paris Université, Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

Make progress in mastering creative writing through specific exercises to explore new facets of your practice. Share your writing research and therefore  benefit from collective feedback. Identify your literary interests. Persevere in the dynamics of writing. We will welcome several guest speakers to master classes throughout the year: established and emerging authors, editors, programmers, etc., to provide insight into the professional world of writing. These will include Maylis de Kerangal (author), Laura Vasquez (author), Marie Desmeures (editor at Denoël), Lauren Malka (journalist and author), and Adélaïde Fabre (programmer).

Method: The content of the workshop is built around the personalities present and their aspirations. Individual writing followed by text sharing (group dynamic) and individual feedback. (Sessions will alternate between group work and individual work.) In the second semester, some sessions may be devoted to monitoring each student’s written work (dissertation, literary project). A workshop notebook is kept by the group (an editor is appointed for each session) in order to record shared references.

LA PHOTOGRAPHIE INFAMANTE

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil
Associated technical workshops: photo and video / cinema

Infamous painting was a pictorial practice in northern Italy in the 15th century, consisting of the conspicuous painting of ‘infamous images ‘’ of those condemned in absentia on the walls of public buildings. These convicts were also easily identifiable thanks to inscriptions (tituli) painted in clearly visible letters. Method: Visit to exhibitions or non-museum venues with a direct (or indirect) link to the field of contemporary art. Invitation to reflect on the possibility of constructing absent or mental images today.

LIBRÉRER

Teacher: Lionel Catelan

‘Librérer’: similar to Fernand Deligny’s “Camérer”, which transformed the tool ‘camera’ into a verb. Here, the aim is to transform the act of creating a library into a verb. By activating the terms librairie (bookshop) – livre (book) – libre (free) – lier (to bind), we will attempt to create a corpus of texts associated with images in imposed formats, constrained by the machinery required to print and distribute them. Each participant will propose one or more texts that are particularly close to their heart, regardless of their nature. Every student will receive an invitation to contribute. In association with the Screen Printing workshop, we will then participate in publishing fairs such as Paris Ass Book Fair and Fanzine Festival.

MISES EN ŒUVRE DESSINS-PEINTURES

Eric Dalbis, Lina Hentgen

Helping students to carry out and implement their artistic practice, assisting them in the elaboration and development of their pictorial project. Defining together the specific features of the student’s practice through a pluralist approach to content, media, techniques and contexts. Method: In the form of work monitoring, presentations, exhibitions, group and individual interviews, cross-pollination of personalities. The aim of the studio is to provide support in the development of visual media, analysis, reflection, the relevance and coherence of technical choices, references and presentation conditions.

MONDES SONORES

Florent Caron Darras

This workshop is an invitation to explore the world of sound as much as the sounds of the world. The aim is to first tackle the question of sound in as broad a way as possible, both in the sound arts and in music, but also outside artistic practices, right up to questioning the boundaries music/sound or art/ life. Above all, this workshop is an opportunity to welcome any questions or desires related to sound engineering. All kinds of projects involving sound are welcome: installation, sound sculpture, music, performance, sound poetry, video, radiophonic art, etc. Fundamental notions of acoustics will be introduced. Certain technical points will be explored using Ableton Live, Reaper and Max software. We’ll be looking at the construction and structure of time, as well as the spatial organisation of sound.

PRO BONO

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil

Based on the discovery and viewing of films or documentaries, discussions and exchanges on the current practice of the students taking part in the workshop. Research, monitoring and development of a singular image-making practice (photographic and other). Method: group discussion around current projects.

POISSY TV X HIBOU TV

Teacher: Gallien Déjean, with the support of Valentine Houot-Braun
Guest: Jean-Alain Corre

Formerly a convent for Ursuline nuns, the Poissy Central Prison, located in the historic centre of the old town, houses prisoners serving long sentences. In partnership with the Yvelines Prison Integration and Probation Service (SPIP 78), ENSAPC is proposing to set up a self-organised audiovisual production workshop, bringing together prisoners and students. The aim of this project is to create a self-taught audiovisual workshop, covering both technical and theoretical aspects, within the Poissy Central Prison, enabling participants to familiarise themselves with the different stages of production (writing, filming, editing, etc.) while exploring the issues surrounding video in a historical context. This project is based on the collective definition and production of an evolving filming system that can be used to produce short fiction films, documentaries, clips, reportages, sketches and programmes. Due to the control and security rules announced by the prison administration, the workshop will have to use exclusively analogue equipment in order to allow the administration to control the release of images and sounds produced inside the prison.

This imposed vintage format is a technical specificity which, among many other rules, reflects an issue – that of constraint – that is formally embedded at the very heart of this collaborative creative process. For the year 2025–26, Poissy TV is partnering with Hibou TV, a new broadcasting channel conceived by artist Jean-Alain Corre in collaboration with author Gaëlle Obiégly, which will be launched as part of an exhibition organised at Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche in January 2026. Following a pilot episode entitled ‘Hibou d’espelette’ presented at the Valéria Cetraro gallery in 2024, Hibou TV aims to question and subvert the codes of the television medium by exploring the process of image production through experimentation with various programme formats, co-created with different actors, contributors and audiences.

Designed as a modular television set with multiple configurations, this exhibition will trace historical relationships with public access television programmes initiated by collectives of artists and activists in the 1970s and 1980s (Paper Tiger TV/Deep Dish TV, Party TV, Artist Television Network, TVTV). By breaking free from traditional broadcasting channels to invent alternative spaces for expression, these collectives encouraged the active participation of artists and spectators, giving a voice to under-represented communities and deconstructing the socio-cultural tropes that have shaped the imaginaries conveyed by the mainstream media.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME 

David Douard 
In collaboration with the wood and metal workshop and the screen printing and digital printing workshop

Every Monday, the Pump Up studio brings together students involved in volume, sculpture or installation. It is organised around students’ individual projects and questions the issues at stake. The production of validated projects is monitored in conjunction with the Volume Studio. It is also accompanied by a reflection on the status of these practices today. The studio provides “tailor-made” support for the development of students’ projects, seeking to push them further in their practices, beyond the boundaries between media. Projects are monitored in conjunction with the technical workshops. Every semester, the Pump Up studio invites an artist from outside the school to present their work and discuss it with the studio’s students. The studio also offers exhibition spaces within the school to highlight the relationship with the exhibition space.

🦋 PAPILLON 🦋

Carla Adra

The Papillon studio is a space for experimentation and performance practice. How can we develop poetic ways of acting in the world? How can we explore our social relationships and create forms based on what we experience? We will deconstruct the preconceptions associated with performance in order to discover a way of thinking, a working process, a way of putting ourselves into narrative. Like butterflies, the studio embodies the ephemeral, movement and transformation. Using both theoretical and practical examples, we will study the history of performance. We will also do group exercises in writing, movement and dialogue to get to know each other through these means. We will meet Les Fileuses, a feminist group from the Beaux-Arts de Paris led by Clara Schulmann, to open our minds to social struggles and collective practices.

At the end of the semester, we will embark on a three-day ‘butterfly journey’. We will be accompanied by artist Claire Star Finch. The first sessions will also be devoted to preparing for this urban epic.

STUDIO PHOTO

Christian Genty
Associated technical workshops and partners: ENSAPC Photography Workshop, TALM-Le Mans Photography Workshop, ENSAPC Digital Printing Workshop, YGREC

The photo studio is a weekly meeting open to all students in their second to fifth year who practise photography and want to develop their thinking about the means and meaning of the medium. The photo studio provides practical and theoretical support from conception to production.

All aspects and issues relating to photography can be addressed and developed there. Photography can be considered as a meaningful object in the plurality of its current forms. In the second semester, a collaboration will be set up with Laura Brunelier, photographer and teacher at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design du Mans, and her students. The idea is to work with them to develop a curatorial project between Ygrec and TALM – Le Mans.

THINKING IN IMAGES

Véronique Joumard and Charlotte Charbonnel
In collaboration with Lionel Catelan in charge of publishing.

Thinking in images is a practical, bilingual reflection on drawing, language and mental images. Sentences are given as stimuli for the drawing. These sentences can come from current affairs, literature, etc. The drawings are as varied as the participants, and can be made using pencil, pen or colour, in small or large sizes, on different papers or on a screen. The drawings appeal to each participant’s imagination, perception and history. The drawings are created quickly so as to link the mental image produced by the sentence and its drawing, thus naturally linking the two hemispheres of the brain, the left ‘verbal’ hemisphere and the right ‘visual-spatial’ hemisphere. During a break, they are all presented in a s simple way. Students can then see the different interpretations of the same phrase, like a musical score that can be played differently. This year Thinking in Images will be on the move, and we’ll be travelling to a variety of unusual locations, exhibition spaces or outdoors when the weather permits. We’ll be exploring different drawing tools and different positions in space and in relation to the medium. We don’t speak so much in this course, it could be a good opportunity for foreigner students to practice drawing and language, to dream in French or in English. Welcome to them!