Ecole Supérieure d’Art de l’agglomération d’Annecy / Bangalore : inventing a third-heritage

INVENTING A THIRD-HERITAGE - WORK IN PROGRESS...
Workshop and events with the Graduate Art School of Annecy,
from April 26 to April 30 2016.

Workshop Igle Ivagle, Bangalore, © Adrian Torres Astaburuaga, 2014

This work­shop at Villa Vassilieff is a way for Design & Space Master stu­dents and teachers of the ESAAA to con­tinue and achieve a pro­gram of artistic exper­i­men­ta­tions started in November 2014 at Bangalore (India). Hosted for a one-month res­i­dency in the city, the team worked in the symp­tomatic Shivaji Nagar urban dis­trict, along with artists and stu­dents of the Srishti School of Art & Technology.
Those adven­tures will go on from April 24 to 30, 2016 in the con­text of Villa Vassilieff. Students will be invited to explore its geo­graph­ical inscrip­tion, but also its own res­sources (net­works, archives, etc.) to con­tinue the orig­inal hypoth­esis of the pro­ject : the pos­si­bility of cre­ation here and now, within the con­di­tions given by a sit­u­a­tion.

This work­shop is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the pro­ject Bangalore : inventing a third-her­itage, devel­oped as a part of the call for pro­posals Intercultural prac­tices in pat­ri­mon­al­iza­tion pro­cesses of the Ministry of Culture, which lead to a research trip in Bangalore (India) in November 2014 and to sev­eral sem­i­nars.

Workshop with ESAAA students, "Inventing a third-heritage - work in progress..."

On April 30, from 3:00 to 7:00 pm
NEIGHBORHOOD - Urban walks, hap­pen­ings and pro­jec­tions

With Diane Aubrun, Marianne Barrieux, Ophélie Carpentier, Martin Gourmaud, Margaux Faulcon, Léa Larousse, Laura Pouppeville, Dalal Tamri and Clémentine Viallon (5th year stu­dents in the Design & Space depart­ment of the Graduate Art School of Annecy) ; Adrian Torres (archi­tect and researcher at DSRA in the Graduate Art School of Annecy) ; Naïm Aït-Sidhoum (archi­tect), Alexandre Costanzo (philoso­pher), Didier Tallagrand (artist) and Nicolas Tixier (archi­tect), teachers at the Graduate Art School of Annecy.

Following a cycle of exper­i­men­ta­tions who drove them to Bangalore in India (Inventing a third-her­itage - work in pro­gress...), stu­dents where invited for a week to explore the pos­si­bil­i­ties for a cre­ation based on geo­graph­ical loca­tion of the Villa Vassilieff and its internal resources. A course ranging from the Villa Vassilieff to the rail­ways leading to the out­skirt, from the Montparnasse cemetary to the bleach steams of the public swim­ming pool…

The VOISINAGE pro­jects

Ophélie Carpentier, Un tapis, un renard, un clou, 2016.
Installation

A fox hung on the wall. The rug that hangs on the bal­cony’s guard-rail. The nail holds the fox and the rug can wel­come its fall (just in case). There is also a grey plastic ring, a piece of brick, cigarets packs, a post­card from Carrara, pho­to­copies, pieces of paper, a silex, a post-it and four polaroids. From a finit number of things, an infinity of tales can be made. Three of them - at least - were told to us this after­noon.



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Diane Aubrun, Ces his­toires on les empile, 2016.
Video and per­for­mance. With works by : Emmanuelle Lainé, col­lec­tif Life After Life, Jean Bhownagary

Diane Auburn’s propo­si­tion was a live cre­ation, drawing from film archives shot during var­ious events in the Chemin du Montparnasse in the 2000’s. The video made from archives was pre­sented on loop and a text was read and written during the per­for­mance.


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Dalal Tamri, Le chant de la vie, 2016.
Sound instal­la­tion.

The song of Life was a sound instal­la­tion through which Dalal Tamri broad­cast a whis­pered reading of epi­taphs she had pre­emp­tively gath­ered, and of which she had written a descrip­tion and her feel­ings to make poems.

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Marianne Barrieu, Promenade vers la Ghouta, en com­­pa­gnie d’Adonis, 2016.
Performance.

Through a reading of an piece from Adonis poem col­lec­tion Chronique des branches and a stroll, Marianne Barrieu’s invi­ta­tion aimed to intro­duce an else­where, an encounter and exoti­cism to the evoca­tive power of the place.

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Clémentine Viallon, Contre-usage, « parc du jardin du Luxembourg », 2016.
Drawings

What is a chil­dren’s game if not an edu­ca­tional appa­ratus, a con­straining object that induces normed usages? Clémentine Viallon’s work explored this dilemma in the Jardin du Luxembourg’s chil­dren play­ground. Contre-usage demon­strate autonomy without con­straint, in which logic her draw­ings showed pos­sible détourne­ments.




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Martin Gourmaud, Margaux Faulcon, Rivage Familier, 2016.
Installation.

Between fic­tion and doc­u­men­tary, the work by Martin Gourmand and Margaux Falcon is the result of their explo­ration of urban space, which frag­ments they col­lect and from which they try to recreate a tale.


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Laura Pouppeville, Quatrième Fête, 2016.
Installation that was acti­vated by a meal served at the end of the event.


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Léa Larousse, Métro chlore, 2016.
Performance.

During the event, Léa Larousse went to meet the vis­i­tors to share the tale of three days spent exploring the sur­round­ings of the Tour Montparnasse public swim­ming-pool and inviting them to redis­cover the place.

"Une grille sous les arcades en marbre du Centre com­mer­cial Montparnasse Rive Gauche est un sol per­foré, il laisse entrevoir un espace sous ter­rain et offre la pos­si­bilité de sentir dif­férents lieux en restant en sur­face. Est-il pos­sible de com­prendre de manière sen­sible quels espaces nous traver­sons ?"

The « infra mince » is a notion that Thierry Davila bor­rows from Marcel Duchamp.

« Est infra mince ce qui est à peine per­cep­tible, à peine repérable, ce qui représente une dif­férence infime et sin­gu­lar­isante. »

Thierry Davila, De l’infra mince. Brève his­toire de l’imper­cep­tible, de Marcel Duchamp à nos jours, éditions du Regard, p. 31.

Ecole Supérieure d’Art de l’Agglomération d’Annecy - ESAAA (Graduate Art School of Annecy)

Located on the excep­tional site Les Marquisats on Annecy Lake banks, the ESAAA is a higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tion super­vised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Linking edu­ca­tion and research activ­i­ties thanks to a strong ped­a­gogic posi­tion in favor of eman­ci­pa­tion, the school thinks itself as an artistic and intel­lec­tual com­mu­nity. Here, teachers are both artists and researchers, and they are con­stantly re-eval­u­ating their prac­tice, lit­ter­ally searching for it side by side with stu­dents.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tions : the school web­site.