memento vivere

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Memento vivere is a prospective research, which will become public in the spring of 2025 in a form hybridizing contemporary creation and research in social sciences. It continues our previous work on the living and vitalities, from a new angle. Because art remains a powerful tool to reframe our lives, to situate them in their right measure in the long time of humanization and the great cycle of the living.

It can help us in particular to admit how much the generations gone by compose our matrix, how much we still lead our lives, accompanied by their words and with their tools. This is how they socialize us and humanize us because they form this humus, this fund whose etymology is common to the words human, humanity, buried and humility. It is a lively social function, that is to say active in the world of the living. No civilization would exist without this transmission of words and knowledge, symbols and tools.

There is nothing necrophiliac in this research but, at the time of the Anthropocene and the collapse of ecosystem balances, the desire to question and reframe our lives, to situate them in their proper measure in the long time of humanization and in the tangled dynamics of the living.

> Opus 01 : Les Présences

The first public production will take place near the two mass graves of the Petit-Sablon cemetery, in the commune of La Tronche, which welcome anonymous people, the destitute, those without known families and irreducible personalities who chose to be buried here out of pure conviction, thus defying the social order for eternity. It will be called Les Présences.

Philippe Mouillon takes up the vocabulary of photographic portraits reproduced on porcelain, present in many cemeteries, where they bear witness to the social and family order of other eras. We thus leaf through an entire social ecosystem, a mille-feuille of extinguished presences that obviously affect us. Because despite the alignments, an apparently immutable order, cemeteries are places of disorder, emotional disorder of course, but even more abysmal rout in the face of the evidence of our insignificance. At work everywhere and for everyone, wealthy or destitute, the irresistible silent dissolution of what was once a life in the impalpable.

In a few decades, these portraits become so eroded by the cycles of bad weather and the corrosive power of the sun’s rays that they become illegible. They seem erased by the excess of light or eaten away by humidity and micro-organisms. The chemical texture decomposes into an exhausted, sometimes absurd or extravagant colorization. Individualities thus dissolve and slowly fade away, which is all the more disturbing since the photograph obviously attests that this existence was nevertheless lived, with its ordinary daily life of joys and sorrows, its passions and its dramas. But by dissolving, these images no longer preserve the trace of a singular existence but nevertheless bear witness to a presence.

It is this anonymity of individualities dissolved in a common humanity that will be amplified here, in a vast book of porcelains that will detach us from the continuum of daily life to evoke a deeper present where presences survive.

> Opus 02 :

Other artists will be invited to intervene over the months in the cemeteries of the Grenoble metropolitan area. The first artist in residence will be Rachid Koraichi. In addition to a Garden of Memory created as part of the Chaumont Garden Festival, Rachid has notably taken the initiative of designing Garden of Africa on the edge of the Mediterranean in order to welcome the bodies of migrants who disappeared at sea and thus ensure that they have a memory worthy of being mourned.

Reclaim public space now !

While the Ukrainian resistance overthrows in kyiv the statue dedicated to the friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, Romanian artists and intellectuals are wondering how to radically renew the artistic presence in the public space of Bucharest.

 

Here as elsewhere, the steamroller of the market imaginary dominates the public space, but the city is a complex palimpsest composed by Byzantine then Orthodox imaginaries, Austro-Hungarian then Soviet occupations, the frequency of earthquakes, the state of abandonment of buildings whose owners disappeared during the disasters of the 20th century, and today by the unbridled Eldorado of the globalized economy.

 

In this context, what legitimacy to rely on? How to take in charge without waiting? How to regenerate public space by opening it up to cross-cutting initiatives? How to share the differences of interpretation of the world? How to contribute to the autonomy of individuals? How to revive? How to welcome dissident thoughts, poetics, social innovations?

 

The initiative led by Edmond Niculusca (ARCEN) and supported by the French Institute of Bucharest brings together artists Pisica Patrata, Dan Perjovschi, Cristian Neagoe, architect-urban planner Monica Sebestyen and former Minister of Culture Corina Suteu, expert international in innovative cultural policies.

The work of the place

  • multitudes philosophical artistic political review, publishes this spring 2022 its number 86 entitled The territory, a political affair
  • Territory! The word flaps like a flag, it is adored or suspected. What about this political object? This issue attempts to objectify it, to extract it from categorisations to show its diversity, its interdependencies, its historical depth, its resources. “The spirit of the place” inspires the artist, defines the environments to be preserved, permeates our affects. We all experience “the appalling sweetness of belonging”.
  • In response to this invitation, Philippe Mouillon develops in this issue the idea that the work of the place is simply the work of a smuggler who facilitates resurgences of time and their social acclimatization:

“The poet, the artist, the gardener or the architect (and so many others, inhabited by deep times) can work on a place by carefully assembling a certain quality of air, lights, prevailing winds, by dosing the mineralities, by synchronizing the encounter between individuals, an era, temporalities and the entanglement of terrestrial ecosystems… in order to crystallize a mood, an impalpable atmosphere, a particular intensity that carries us and invites us to live.

From one site to another, but also from one era to another of human societies, from one stage to another of our own existence, places form the matrix of our sensitivity and our behavior. They are places rather than nothing in that they soothe us, console us, consolidate us, bring us together, connect us, grow us. They are part of a break with the simplified uniform of territorial abstraction to open in us a decanted present of the moment, where presences and absences remain, endlessly intertwined”. 

 

Out of place

We sometimes feel out of place, without however managing to identify what disorients us in what stands before us, irreducible to our previous experiences. New emotions take shape, still wavering, fragmentary, equivocal, which can slowly gain consistency and clarity. This quest for a change of scenery has long been a rare aesthetic experience, a meditative or initiatory search.

But for twelve months, we have lived out of place while remaining on the spot. As if the ground under our feet had lost its usual consistency. Our living environment seems out of tune with its foundations, with our most common uses and with the complicities accumulated over time.

Faced with this alert, it seemed useful to us to invite iconoclastic and playful visions to the rescue during the cycle of artistic and intellectual performances Ça Remue! end of October last.

Our accomplices are bird whistlers, gardeners, architects, anthropologists, shepherdesses, performers, philosophers, physicists, ecologists, echo, dawn or cloud catchers, poets and landscape designers…. They challenge our habitual perceptions of SOIL, BODIES, ATMOSPHERE to bring out more appropriate uses of the world.

Local-contemporain publishes this sum of rare intuitions under the title Dépaysements. We are happy to share a preview with you of these few excerpts:

EXCERPT FROM THE SUMMARY :

Alexandra Engelfriet : HAND TO HAND

Below the dominant layer of thought opens up, layer after layer, a continent which cannot be expressed in words, but only experienced. By penetrating these deep layers, a marvelous phenomenon occurs which, deep inside me, opens me to the world, to a more complete reality. Clay is this primordial reality, prior to language.

Johnny Rasse : BECOME INVISIBLE

Entering into conversation with a bird requires making oneself totally available and shapeable since my body, my voice and my resonators will have to redesign themselves to accommodate this song. But it does provide a deep sense of wholeness and oneness with my surroundings. I think I have sought throughout my life, and especially during my childhood, the intoxication of this moment.

Catherine Grout : BREATHE WITH EARTH AND SKY

If we characterize ourselves as homo sapiens by our verticalization, we do not stand quietly. We are in relation with everything that surrounds us in this gravitational and anti-gravity earth-sky connection with an exchange of forces and energies. Our relationship on the horizon is also not tranquil. Nor to the clouds for that matter.

Maryvonne Arnaud : THE NATIVE LANDSCAPE

Will we ever be able to relive landscapes? Will we be able to survive from landscapes? Will the gestures of welcome, the hospitable voices, the smells, the sweetness of the sun, wake up the landscape? Will the gaze of children born here or there, without soil, born between, born nowhere, revive the taste for landscape? These children who do not know the landscaping, will they become smugglers of landscapes?

Gilles Clément : AN INVERSION OF LANDSCAPES

To reproach a plant or an animal for being there when it comes from elsewhere is to understand nothing of the behavioral reality of the living. We are subject to a compartmentalized cultural model, with a totally blocked fixist vision, where there is no way out. This reflects a misunderstanding of the ordinary mechanisms of life and evolution.

Daniel Bougnoux : DECOINCIDATE

Our lives are played with dice: de-landscape, de-centering, de-localization, departures… We are beings of desire and this desire tears us apart, dislocates us, exiles us from any landscape or country.

Bruno Caraguel : LA REMUE

We will not redo the cities, but we can make them permeable to the living. It is the choice of a wonder that is neither nostalgic nor backward-looking, but forward-looking and innovative.

Pierre Janin / Thomas Mouillon : OBSERVING THE SOILS UNDER OUR FEET

Anchoring and nomadism, rural and urban, local and territorial, intellectuals and manuals, we are part of the agricultural time of the summer pastures, the time of transhumance which remains a formidable model.

Anaïs Tondeur : MISLEADING TRANSPARENCY

The Cloud Parliament transforms the exhibition hall into a courtroom. A silent courtroom, as if awaiting a verdict, where it is the clouds that seem to have become the witnesses for the prosecution, where these transparent entities are recognized for their place at the heart of the balance of the world, guaranteeing the maintenance of the breathing of the bodies.

Henry Torgue: THE GREAT LISTENING OF THE WORLD

The sound bath that immerses our lives cannot be reduced to an acoustic dressing applied to the visual landscape. From the womb of our mother, hearing is one of our active senses to apprehend the world.

Jean-Christophe Bailly : BRIEF BACK ON A TITLE

As soon as we leave the circle of our daily movements, we prepare ourselves to be disoriented, projected into another space and other spacings, in the position of the apprentice that in fact we should never abandon.

Marc Higgins : THE TRAVEL MEMORIES OF DOUGLAS WHITE

The Black Palms of Douglas White are at the crossroads of two twin logics of intensive and blind exploitation of the world. They invite us to lie down in the shadow of the globalization of tourism and the domination of our imaginations. They contain no hope.

Marie Chéné : TOUT AJOUT JOUE

The echo returns to us, totally or in part, what we sent it, and it is as if it gave it back to us brand new, as if it made us truly hear it. We offer him a small germ of language and, with a backhand blow, he gives you the complete sentence.

 

Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary : DIE OF LANDSCAPE

It is no longer possible to contemplate coastal lights without thinking of the migratory dramas that cross these same landscapes.

Marie-Pascale Dubé : THIS IMMENSITY FELT…

The more I sing, the more I feel like I’m coming back to something that’s already there and that surprises me, that opens up and awakens emotions already present in me. An impulse of joy and suffering. It’s about healing. I am neither a shaman nor a healer, but I feel that within me, singing heals me.

Lora Juodkaite, Rachid Ouramdane : NEXT TO REAL

For me, gyration remains a very simple daily practice. My consciousness surrenders, I bow, and I’m grateful. Maybe that’s why this movement stays with me.

Jean-Pierre Brazs : THE WORLD IS IN DELICATE USE

Nothing can really exist without being said, the words of the landscape have a place to take, including in the landscape itself.

Hervé Frumy : A NIGHT ON THE INACCESSIBLE

A bivouac on Mont Aiguille, defeated on June 26, 1492 by royal will. Accompanied by several trades, Antoine De Ville will stay there for a week, the time to say a mass and lay three crosses.

Ça Remue ! (It stirs!) is a LABORATOIRE initiative carried out with the support of Idex Univ. Grenoble Alpes, the Department of Isère within the framework of paysage>paysages and the Carasso Foundation under the aegis of the Fondation de France.

The Ways of the world

ÇA REMUE

LE PROGRAMME DES 3 JOURS

Musée de Grenoble

Vendredi 2, samedi 3, dimanche 4 mars

hall, grande galerie, patio, salle des séminaires, auditorium

Les paysages fixes, stables, arrêtés n’existent pas. Le sédentaire et le définitif ne sont que des illusions d’optique ou de perception. Tout dans le paysage remue, tangue, chaloupe, bouscule, migre et se déplace…

À contrario de l’itinéraire trop bien tracé de la route principale nous projetant au plus vite vers une destination déterminée, Ça remue vous propose de cheminer disponible au hasard et à l’inattendu, attentif à toutes les rencontres, de déguster le temps qui passe, le temps qui change, d’oublier les certitudes ou les inquiétudes pour laisser la part belle à l’échappée.

  • Le paysage fait son cinéma

Vendredi 2, samedi 3, dimanche 4 mars

Un montage d’Agnès Bruckert (boucle de 36 mn en projection continue).

Auditorium du musée (entrée gratuite)

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Lieux-dits, un précipité de vies

> Vendredi 2, samedi 3, dimanche 4 mars

Une proposition de Philippe Mouillon avec le concours scientifique de Jeanine Elisa Médélice.

Grande galerie (entrée gratuite samedi et dimanche)

SÉMINAIRE paysage en mouvements

> Vendredi 2 mars de 9h30>13h / 14h30>18h

Salle de séminaire (entrée gratuite sur inscription à contact@lelaboratoire.net)

9H30

Accueil par Guy Tosatto, directeur du musée de Grenoble. Introduction par Philippe Mouillon.

10h>13H – 14H30>18H

Une journée de réflexion sur les paysages en mouvements avec Cécile Beau (artiste), Daniel Bougnoux (philosophe), Philippe Bourdeau (géographe), Philippe Choler (écologue), Emanuele Coccia (philosophe), Laurence Desprès (biologiste), Caroline Duchatelet (artiste), Alain Faure (politiste), Catherine Hänni (archéobiologiste), Lucie Goujard (historienne d’art), Lionel Manga (écrivain), Martin de la Soudière (ethnologue), François Parcy (biologiste), Dominique Pety (historienne de la littérature), Claire Revol (philosophe), Olivier de Sépibus (artiste), Henry Torgue (compositeur), Martin Vanier (géographe), Marc Vuillermoz (historien de la littérature)…

18H30

Conclusion en présence de Patrick Levy, Président de l’Université Grenoble Alpes.

CONVERSATIONS entre artistes de paysage>paysages et chercheurs universités / CNRS

> Samedi 3 mars

Patio (entrée gratuite)

10H Caroline Duchatelet (artiste) >/< Daniel Bougnoux (philosophe).

Cueillir la lumière

11H Agnès Bruckert (monteuse) >//< Laure Brayer (architecte).

Filmer le paysage en arrière-fond

12H Rachid Ouramdame (chorégraphe) >/< Anne-Laure Amilhat (géographe).

Franchir les frontières

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13H Céline Perroud (danseuse) >/< Claire Revol (philosophe).

Gestes entre ciel et terre

14H Olivier de Séphibus (photographe) >/< Yann Borgnet (guide)

>/< Lucie Goujard (historienne d’art).

La disparition du paysage de haute montagne

15H Cécile Beau (artiste) >/< Cartherine Hänni (archéobiologiste).

Stabilité et turbulences, la nature en évolution

16H Chloé Moglia (artiste) >/< Emmanuele Coccia (philosophe).

Se mélanger au monde par le souffle

17H Éléonor Gilbert (réalisatrice) >/< Anne Sgard (géographe)

>/< Sarah Mekdjian (géographe).

Expérimenter son quotidien

© Olivier de Séphibus

PERFORMANCES

> Samedi 3 mars

11H

Skull*cult de Christian Rizzo et Rachid Ouramdane

Rachid Ouramdane, co-directeur du CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, reprend et interprète ce solo créé au Vif du sujet à Avignon en 2002. Le corps gainé de cuir, il développe un travail d’articulations et de suspensions intégralement réalisé de dos.

Salle XVIIIe siècle (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

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12H

Horizon Chloé Moglia

À 6 mètres de hauteur, Chloé Moglia, l’artiste aérienne associée au CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, explore la décomposition du mouvement au bout d’une longue perche recourbée.

Parvis du musée (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

14H

Skull*cult de Christian Rizzo et Rachid Ouramdane

Rachid Ouramdane, co-directeur du CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, reprend et interprète ce solo créé au Vif du sujet à Avignon en 2002. Le corps gainé de cuir, il développe un travail d’articulations et de suspensions intégralement réalisé de dos.

Salle XVIIIe siècle (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

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15H

Horizon Chloé Moglia

À 6 mètres de hauteur, Chloé Moglia, l’artiste aérienne associée au CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, explore la décomposition du mouvement au bout d’une longue perche recourbée.

Parvis du musée (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

16H

Espace Éléonor Gilbert

Un film de 14 minutes où, à l’aide d’un croquis, une petite fille explique les subtilités géopolitiques de l’espace public à l’échelle d’une cour de récréation.

Salle de séminaire (entrée gratuite / durée 14mn)

PERFORMANCES

> Dimanche 4 mars

11H30

Transhumance Nicolas Hubert et Giulia Arduca Compagnie Épiderme

Une déambulation performative et contemplative dans de grands espaces imaginaires, à travers un mouvement hybridant les formes jusqu’à la confusion des membres et des genres (humain/animal, masculin/féminin).

Départ Grande galerie, niveau vestiaire

(entrée gratuite / Déambulation de 20 mn)

12H

Horizon Chloé Moglia

À 6 mètres de hauteur, Chloé Moglia, l’artiste aérienne associée au CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, explore la décomposition du mouvement au bout d’une longue perche recourbée.

Parvis du musée (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

14H

Le geste de la Terre Céline Perroud Compagnie Rotations Culturelles

Danseuse et chorégraphe atypique, Céline Perroud présente une variation du master class «Sismo Danse » réalisée avec le sismologue Jean Robert Grasso et le plasticien Sébastien Perroud.

Patio (entrée gratuite / durée 20 mn)

14H30

Transhumance Nicolas Hubert et Giulia Arduca Compagnie Épiderme.

Une déambulation performative et contemplative dans de grands espaces imaginaires, à travers un mouvement hybridant les formes jusqu’à la confusion des membres et des genres (humain/animal, masculin/féminin).

Départ Grande galerie, niveau vestiaire

(entrée gratuite / Déambulation de 20 mn)

15H

Tentatives d’étirement du français figé David Poullard >/< Guillaume Rannou

Une conférence fiction par deux artistes de la langue qui élaborent ensemble des dispositifs destinés à tordre l’ordinaire et le banal de notre langue usuelle, afin d’en extraire des sens potentiels inattendus.

Grande galerie (entrée gratuite / durée 20 mn)

15H30

Horizon Chloé Moglia

À 6 mètres de hauteur, Chloé Moglia, l’artiste aérienne associée au CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, explore la décomposition du mouvement au bout d’une longue perche recourbée.

Parvis du musée (entrée gratuite / durée 25mn)

16H

Le geste de la terre Céline Perroud Compagnie Rotations Culturelles

Danseuse et chorégraphe atypique, Céline Perroud présente une variation du master class «Sismo Danse » réalisée avec le sismologue Jean Robert Grasso et le plasticien Sébastien Perroud.

Patio (entrée gratuite / durée 20 mn)

16H30

Tentatives d’étirement du français figé David Poullard >/< Guillaume Rannou

Une conférence fiction par deux artistes de la langue qui élaborent ensemble des dispositifs destinés à tordre l’ordinaire et le banal de notre langue usuelle, afin d’en extraire des sens potentiels inattendus.

Grande galerie (entrée gratuite / durée 20 mn)

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Une initiative de LABORATOIRE en partenariat avec le musée de Grenoble, image le CCN2 et les éditions local-contemporain