Sessions
Session 1: The Gobelins stream
Thursday, March 24, 12.30 pm
Manufacture des Gobelins, 42 avenue des Gobelins, 75013 Paris
It was on the banks of the Bièvre, whose waters were reputed for their dyeing qualities, that a scarlet dyeing industry was set up at the end of the Middle Ages, which gradually became the royal tapestry workshops and the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was on the site of the former gardens of the Manufacture, and above the "ravine of the Bièvre", which had already been covered/already covered, that Auguste Perret erected the building of the Mobilier national.
Guided tour of the Manufacture des Gobelins, followed by a walk in the 13th arrondissement.
With : Mathilde Belouali, Marie Bette, Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
Free, upon registration at info@betonsalon.net
Visit of the residency Running waters at the Manufacture des Gobelins, march 2022 © Bétonsalon - centre for art and research.
Session 2 : Aunque es de noche. Meditations on the Bièvre
Thursday, May 12, 10.30pm
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
Free, upon registration at info@betonsalon.net
© Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
Session 3 : Bièvre River Walk
Sunday, May 15, 7.30 am
Émile Mousseau primary schools, 44 avenue Jean Jaurès, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas
Organised by the association of the same name, the 38th Marche de la Bièvre will take place on Sunday 15 May 2022, just as the party people are going to bed. We invite you to participate with us, and we will meet at 7:30 am in Jouy-en-Josas to join the "Marche du Soleil": a 22 km route along the Bièvre, towards its source in Guyancourt, then to Les Loges-en-Josas and Bièvres.
This emblematic walk brings together several hundred hikers each year, some of whom start at midnight from Notre Dame de Paris for the Moon Walk.
Free of charge, on registration at info@betonsalon.net before Wednesday 11 May.
More information on the Bièvre Walk: www.marche.bievre.org
© Christel Conchon
Session 4: Visit and discussion in the exhibition Cayenne by julien quentel, with the artist and the curator Franck Balland
Sunday, June 19, 3pm
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
Exhibition visible by appointment from 11.06 to 10.07:
paulineperplexe@gmail.com or 06 67 28 86 97
Session 5: Workshop with Loup Rivière from dance for plants
Thursday, July 7, from 2 to 6pm
Pauline Perplexe, 76-78 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
Loup Rivière from dance for plants proposes an afternoon workshop in one of the two houses occupied by Pauline Perplexe, before their move at the end of the year, as a way to spend a moment in the intimacy of the knowledge of a place. How do we make a place, and how do the places we make and unmake, that we transform, make us and unmake us, form us and inform us, transform us? We will take the time to tell each other the stories of things, traces and memories, and to watch ourselves move in the places we listen to (and perhaps deposit other stories to unfold later).
This workshop is open to ten people (upon registration at paulineperplexe@gmail.com) who have passed through, lived in, or visited the place in some way over the past three years.
dance for plants offers workshops and performances in gardens, schools, forests, apartments and museums. The collective is in long-term residency at the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (Denmark) and has worked in various universities and arts centers in Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Stockholm, Väjxö, Reykjavik, Montreal, New York, Brno, Aix-en-Provence, Bourges, Marseille and in Ariège.
Loup Rivière is a dancer and thanadoula. She builds spaces to care for the relationships between the dead and their living, in different contexts and temporalities.
She founded the collective dance for plants (2016) and published the texts "Je suis pas trans dans la forêt", "Danser est un Service Écosystémique et être trans aussi" and "Lesbiennes géologiques, bites de meufs et autres histoires - un poème étendu".
She is currently touring her solo armes molles (2021).
© Christel Conchon
Session 6: Game Island : gaming session with The Mycological Twist
Friday, July 8, from 4pm to 6pm
Bétonsalon – Center for art and research
Game Island tells the story of a world of mutations resulting out of climate change. With amorphous game characters based on the elements of water, earth, fire, air and void, the players are led through various narratives, confronted with natural disasters and encouraged to engage in cross-species alliances – as a molecule, stone, bacterium or human being.
Together as players, the audience will be facing the reality of environmental conditions that threaten their existence – Will there be a future despite hostile conditions, are the diverse organisms able to evolve and survive or has the planet become uninhabitable for their own species?
Session open to 15 participants, upon registration at info@betonsalon.net
The Mycological Twist is a project by Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer, both based in Berlin. They take mycology as a source of inspiration in engaging with ecological and social practices. Their point of interest extends through the mushroom fruiting body into the rotting matter deep below ground level. DIY methods are woven into digital cultures to construct utopias for alternative modes of living. The Mycological Twist started in 2014 in London. Since then, the materialization of the research results in a program of commissions, lectures, camping sessions, performances and works.
Session 7: "Gutters" Workshop
From October 31 to November 4, 2022, schedule to come
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
Starting from the generic image of the gargoyle, the aim is to observe the movements of circulation and water conveyance. From the gutter to the gutter, these observations will allow us to think of forms induced by these logics of flow. The back of the gargoyles of the cathedral of Strasbourg lets see the expressiveness of the stone backs, tense or curved. Their inverted necks become the hollow receptacles of rainwater whose circulation softens the rigidity of the forms.
The workshop proposes to leave the imagery of the bestiary by keeping the notion of fluidity, rigidity and inflection of the forms allowing to guide, slow down or accelerate the flow of the water. The rainwater that carries garbage and dead leaves produces erosion, generates a form that pukes or filters, a form that can expand to become a canopy or draw the contours of a square. The pieces thus created will become gargoyles of uses solving real technical problems.
Accompanied by artists Marie Bette, Romain Grateau and Sarah Holveck.
Free, open to art school students upon registration at paulineperplexe@gmail.com
© Marie Bette
Session 8: Ceramics Workshop
Saturday, November 19, and Sunday, 20, then Saturday, November 26, and Sunday 27, from 2 to 6pm
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
"The Bièvre flows, scarified by acids. Globulated with sputum, thickened with chalk, diluted with soot, it rolls heaps of dead leaves and indescribable residues which freeze it, as well as a lead which muddies, of films " - J.K Huysmans, La Bièvre, 1890.
From an artistic research conducted on the asperities of the polluted waters of the Bièvre as well as on the irradiated soil of the Marie Curie laboratory in Arcueil, Charlotte Collin (ceramist) accompanied by Mathilde Rives and Sarah Holveck (artists) propose a ceramic workshop feeding on an imaginary of toxicity based on a research of colors and textures. Phosphorescent and iridescent glazes, different types of clays, lava castings, mosses and recycled and crushed materials: we will try our hand at different techniques and recipes for glazing, forming shapes and creating textures.
Accompanied by artists Charlotte Collin, Mathilde Rives and Sarah Holveck.
Free, upon registration at paulineperplexe@gmail.com
© Charlotte Collin
Running waters receives the support of the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Ile-de-France within the framework of the deployment of SODAVI-F, Schéma d’Orientation pour les Arts Visuels en Ile-de-France.
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