Parlons Pratiques [Let’s Talk Practice] opens a collective reflection on the potential for renewal of a curatorial training program, such as that of the École du Magasin, which was launched in 1987, bringing together the voices of exhibition curators, mediators, teachers, activists, artists, and agroecologists who are involved in the creation and maintenance of art centers, educational initiatives, artist residencies, and collective spaces for gathering and production. Through conversations, interviews, and texts written specifically for this publication or republished for the occasion, the idea is to create a dialogue between practices that share similar concerns, manifested through diverse methods and forms, in contexts sometimes so distant that can be perceived as opposed. 

What can pastoral or natural ecosystems in urban environments teach us about the life cycle of educational programs? How can we manage local support, reception conditions, and human supervision in an artist residency in Marseille or Kampala? What curatorial responsibility do we have for making marginalized bodies and epistemologies visible? What steps can be taken to combat ableist culture in artistic institutions? What tools can be used to develop sustainable institutional practices and an ethic of artistic production in the face of planetary habitability? 

Parlons Pratiques thus aims to give a voice to practices that are taking shape by and through doing: reflections on what the École du Magasin could be today – a space for attention, transmission, and positioning in relation to contemporary issues.

L’École du Magasin. Parlons Pratiques 
Co-edited by Anna Colin and Céline Kopp
Published by Magasin CNAC
With contributions from Mikaela Assolent, Teesa Bahana, Lucie Camous, Anna Colin, Marie de Gaulejac, Fernando García-Dory, Hugo Hopping, Valérie John, Céline Kopp, Marine Lang, Laurence Perrillat, Cindy Sissokho, and Marion Wintrebert
156 pages
€11