Reclaim public space now !

May 5, 2022 | local contemporain en

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

Mar 29, 2022 | local contemporain en

  • 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

Feb 22, 2021 | editions en, local contemporain en

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.

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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

Mar 2, 2020 | Paysage>Paysages en

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

 

landscape disorientation

Jan 28, 2020 | Paysage>Paysages en

This fourth season of paysage> paysages steps into the landscape disorientated. A disorientation that, for a long time, was the privilege of the traveller passing through unfamiliar country, then of the western tourist enjoying a change of scenery. A few vagabond figures like Victor Segalen or Nicolas Bouvier managed to become porous to the world, writing incandescent prose permeated by its endlessly diverging ways. However, in most travel literature, any sense of otherness is obscured or confused by the quest for the exotic.The postage stamp, postcard and travel agency brochure have been the icons of this exoticism. Far away places arrived here as fictions, served up as screensavers devoid of any lines of force that might disturb their tranquil surfaces.

And yet… every experience of the landscape begins, first and foremost, as a disorientation. Including our own immediate environment, in a time when our familiar surroundings constantly re-appear to us “disoriented”, vacant, adrift in planetary standardization. This disorientation is the dominant experience of the contemporary world; the mirror image of the change of scenery sought by the tourist, unmooring place from its foundations, from the habits and uses that have sculpted it over time. The “sites” demarcated by the tourist industry, the agricultural industry, as transport hubs and offshore platforms occupy countries like a foreign army, in an amnesia of belonging. They are places cloned, of which the model – both precursor and prototype – was the colonial plantation; identikit environments slowly eating up the world.

We live with the illusion of landscape as something stable, something that can replicated endlessly, without variation even as the rapid metamorphoses of our actual ecologies demand of us other modes of perception, of feeling, of thinking. It becomes essential to forge new connections with the poetic density of place and the living beings that populate them, with a living world whose becomings remain always open, polyphonic, punctuated with entangled trajectories, with no promise of stability and indifferent to our interests and projects.

Here are some of the upcoming meetings…

  • Douglas White

Enraciné de Douglas White

  • Maarten Vanden Eynde

“Pinpointing-Progress” /  Maarten Vanden Eynde (Biennale de Riga 2018)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Jean-Pierre Brazs

pourquoi_ici, / Jean-Pierre Brazs

 

  • Alexandra Engelfriet

Alexandra Engelfriet / “tranchée”

  • Laurent Four

Laurent Four / Dialogue avec un troupeau