Off-site / Simon Ripoll-Hurier’s artist’s residency at the Thomas Mann residential middle school. September 2021 to June 2022

Simon Ripoll-Hurier’s residency with students at the Thomas Mann residential middle school, 75013 Paris
Outputs: Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 3pm

Elle veut rentrer dans ma chambre/She wants to come into my room

A film by Simon Ripoll-Hurier
created with Eliora Armstrong, Noa Better, Alicia Bekombo, Sathya Brou, Tyana Brunot, Djeynaba Diallo, Kenny Djebotaud, Fatoumata Diakite, Abdoul Jabbie, Chanel Tchinda, Beverly Toussaint and Yvan Yoni, boarders at the Thomas Mann middle school.
Laetitia Striffling, image
Anne de Béarn, additional sound recording

The residency Pareidolia: reading the invisible engages students at the Thomas Mann residential middle school in a reflection on the imperceptible, areas that are imperceptible and inaccessible.

Throughout the 2021 - 2022 school year, the artist Simon Ripoll-Hurier carried out an investigation with students at the Thomas Mann residential middle school, into invisible areas of their environment. During workshops they attempted to capture these spaces using sound and image recording techniques. With Simon Ripoll-Hurier, the students created a futuristic film. But this futuristic approach is nonetheless a vision of the present moment, a vision of phenomena invisible to the naked eye, which can reveal things that are imperceptible but already exist. Thanks to these workshops the students observed their surroundings, their bedrooms, their classrooms, their school, their neighbourhood, and they used their imagination and their creativity to produce a group work that is both a documentary and a fiction film.

This project was part of the Art Pour Grandir artistic residencies at middle schools and was supported by the City of Paris.